Mechtler
fl. 1786 · French
musician
pianoforte instructor
Biography
Mechtler was a French musician who, together with Duplessix, is recorded as an instructor of the pianoforte in New York in 1786. Spillane cites the pair, along with many other teachers active at the time, as evidence that pianofortes had become increasingly common in the city in the years following 1783.
Highlights
- A French musician who, with Duplessix, appears as a pianoforte instructor in New York in 1786.
Source
Daniel Spillane, History of the American Pianoforte (1890), p. 99.
Public domain.