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Söchting

Emil Söchting (1858–1937) was a German composer and piano teacher born in Gröningen who studied at the Royal Institute for Church Music in Berlin under Karl August Haupt and Albert Löschhorn. The most significant influence on his teaching was Ludwig Deppe, a pianist and pedagogue who had developed a method centred on evenness of tone and natural arm weight rather than percussive finger action. Söchting adopted and taught this approach throughout his career, embedding Deppe's principles into both his instructional writing and his compositions, which were designed from the outset to cultivate the specific qualities of touch and tone the method required.

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