items, such as a box of strands of his shoulder-length hair, five of his cigar stubs, a cognac glass, two pencils Liszt used for correcting and annotating manuscripts, and a linen handkerchief embossed with his initials. Liszt had a habit of writing out two copies of his letters longhand, signing both copies, mailing one and keeping the other. Lachmund owned a number of these letters. There was also a sliver of wood from Schiller's deathbed and some leaves from Goethe's grave. Lachmund was present at the premiere of Parsifal by Liszt's son-in-law Richard Wagner in 1882, and was invited by Wagner's wife Cosima to attend a reception in her husband's honour. After leaving Liszt, Lachmund taught at the Klindworth-Scharwenka Conservatory, then toured in Germany and the United States on his return. He was based in Minneapolis between 1885 and 1891. He accompanied the contralto Marianne Brandt on her 1887 American tour. He then settled in New York City, where he set up the Lachmund Conservatory, of which he was the director for 22 years. By 1912 it had become largely devoted to the training of voices for opera. In 1896 he founded the Women's String Orchestra, and conducted it for twelve seasons. Their concerts included one at the request of President William McKinley for the survivors of the battleship USS Maine, whose sinking in Havana Harbour in 1898 was instrumental in the fomenting of the Spanish–American War. He was an Instructor of Piano and Theory and Acting Director at the University of Oregon in Eugene from 1912 to 1913. He had moved there because of bronchial problems. He set up his own private teaching practice in Portland in 1914 but continued teaching at the university for a further year. He returned to New York later in 1914 and had a studio in Steinway Hall. He died in 1928 in Yonkers, New York, aged 74. Students Carl Lachmund's students included: Felix Arndt J. Bodewalt Lampe Charles Gilbert Spross (1874–1961), and Homer Czar Nearing. Compositions Italian Suite (orchestra) Japanese Overture (conducted by Theodore Thomas in 1887, and by Anton Seidl in New York, and by the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra) several other overtures Trio for Harp, Violin and Cello (played in the Berlin Philharmonic Concert in 1884) Valse Impromptu, Op. 12 Woodland Lullaby Concert Étude (ed. Adolf von Henselt) Concert Prelude (this was highly praised by Liszt, and was played by Martha Remmert