Carl Heins
Carl Heins (8 June 1859 - 10 September 1923) was a German pianist, and a composer of light salon music in classical music style. He wrote both solo piano works and parlor songs. Heins' pieces show a special pianoesque ability to fashion pretty melodies picturesquely in the salon style of the time.
Carl Heins

https: The Etude, Volume 26, Number 02 (February 1908) · Public domain
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- Carl Heins was born on 8 June 1859. · Tangermünde.
- Died
- Carl Heins died on 10 September 1923. · Berlin.
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- Germany
- Occupation
- composer · pianist · editor · music arranger
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- German
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Carl Heins (8 June 1859 - 10 September 1923) was a German pianist, and a composer of light salon music in classical music style. He wrote both solo piano works and parlor songs. Heins' pieces show a special pianoesque ability to fashion pretty melodies picturesquely in the salon style of the time.
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His competency on the keyboard led him to perform and compose. He composed the song 'Zwei Dunkle Augen', which was recorded by the tenor Fritz Wunderlich. Stylistically his music is similar to that of his older compatriot Carl Bohm. Robert Leonhardt, an operatic baritone who sang with the New York Metropolitan Opera company between 1913 and 1922, made numerous recordings for many major record labels, both in Europe and in the United States. An early recording he made on Gramophone 42325 with matrix number 1113B[54] was "Zwei dunkle Augen" by Carl Heins. Leonhardt recorded it onto a 78 rpm in October 1901 when he was 24.
Thoughts of Home Traute Heimat Op. 279 No. 2 • Im Hochland. Charakterstück (In Highland. Character Piece) • Village Idyll • Bärentanz (Dance of the Bear) • Senner Traum (Rêve du vache) • Slumber Song: The Widow to Her Child, for voice & violin • Die Spieluhr, (The Music Box). Bagatelle • SCHLIESS'IN DEIN HERZ MICH WIEDER EIN! Fantasie - transcription • Veilchen (Violets) Op.6 • Am Weihnachtsabend (Christmas-eve) (Veille de Noel), Op.43 • Rose D'or, Mazurka Brillante pour Piano, Op.106 No.3 • Gesang der Vöglein (Song of the Birds), Idylle for the Pianoforte, Op.120 • Gitana, Mazurka Brillante Op.156 • Unter dem Weihnachtsstern (Round the Christmas-tree/Sous l'étoile de Noël), Salonstück für Pianoforte, Op. 160 • Abschied von der Sennerin (Reapers Parting Kiss) Op.172 • Am Feensee (By the fairy lake), Op.173 • Hirtenidyll (Idylle de Berger), Op.174 • Mädchentraum, Salonstück, Op. 176 • Sommerlust- Summer's delight, Op.181, No.3 • Rosenfee (The Rose Fairy), Mazurka-Caprice, Op.185 • Rückkehr nach der Heimath (G dur). Op. 190/3. Werk Nr. 3 aus "Wanderleben. Vier melodiöse und instructive Characterstücke für Pianoforte". • Mignon Lyrisches Tonstück, op. 206, No. 1 • Zwei Dunkle Augen (Two Dark Eyes), Op. 212 • Morgenthau, (In the morning Dew), Op.245 • Rotkäppchen (Little Red Riding Hood), Op.247 • Aus Tyrol! From the Tyrol. Depart four Tyrol. Op. 281/5. Tyrolienne.
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Carl Heins was born at Tangermünde.
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Carl Heins died at Berlin.
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- 1.Nelson James Newhard. The Newhard Piano Quartette of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania: A Story about Four Normal Children from One Family, Two Girls and Two Boys, who Devoted Many Years to Playing the Unusual Piano Compositions as Well as the Standard Music of the Day. Lehigh Printing Company. 1946.
- 2.Joan Berman Mizrahi. The American image of women as musicians and pianists: 1850-1900. University of Maryland. 1989.
- 3.Melville Clark Piano Co., Chicago. Catalog of music rolls for the Apollo piano: Apollo concert grand, Apollo and Apolloette piano players and the Orpheus, self-playing orchestrion. 1905.
- 4.Aeolian Company. Catalog of Music for the Pianola, Pianola Piano, and Aeriola. The Company. 1905.
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