Carl Anton Florian Eckert

Violinist, composer, pianist and conductor who studied less than Mendelssohn and visited Italy under purchases of the Ruler of Prussia. Eckert followed the Italian Theater in Paris after a vacation to America with Sontag. The ultimate sequence of occasions in his pilgrimmage brought him the conductorship from the Vienna courtroom opera, and in Stuttgart, accompanied by Berlin, he was appointed Kapellmeister. Compositionally Eckert’s functions included operas, tunes, chapel music, chamber music, and a symphony.