Ferdinand Lachner

In 1879 Lachner worked as concertmaster in Breslau. He also worked in Warsaw and from 1883 to 1887 was concertmaster at the Prague National Theatre.^[2] From 1887 he taught at the Prague Conservatory, where his students included Ema Destinová.^[3]

He became friends with Antonín Dvořák, with whom he traveled through the Bohemian Forest in the summer of 1878. He formed a piano trio with him and cellist Alois Neruda (later with Hanuš Wihan). He premiered several of Dvořák's violin works^[4][5] and accompanied Dvořák and Wihan on a farewell tour of Bohemia and Moravia before Dvořák left for the USA in 1892.^[6]

Lachner played in the public première performances of both of Smetana's string quartets, in 1879^[7] and 1884 respectively.^[8]

• Beckerman, Michael (2008). Dvorak and His World. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 243 f. ISBN 9781400831692.