He will be known to you and does not need my recommendation.’
None other than Johannes Brahms wrote this to his publisher Simrock in Berlin: we are talking about Johann Carl Eschmann (1826–1882).
Eschmann, born in Winterthur in 1826, studied with Felix Mendelssohn and Ignaz Moscheles in Leipzig. He later worked as a piano teacher and composer in Winterthur, Schaffhausen and Zurich.
Eschmann’s compositional output is limited to songs and piano compositions; there are no orchestral works or chamber music for larger ensembles among his compositions; a string quartet and isolated compositions for horn or cello or clarinet or violin and piano have survived.
Further information: https://prospero-classical.com/album/anna-reichert-plays-piano-music-by-johann-carl-eschmann/
