Eckert, Carl (Anton Florian) (1820–1879)

German pianist, violinist, conductor, and composer. He was a pupil of Mendelssohn at Leipzig. He was the accompanist at the Théâtre Italien in Paris and to Henriette Sontag in the USA, then conductor at the same theatre in Paris, director of the Court Opera in Vienna, Kapellmeister at Stuttgart in succession to Kücken, and the successor to Dorn in Berlin.

Works operas Das Fischermädchen (1830), Wilhelm von Oranien; oratorios Ruth (1833) and Judith; church music, symphonies; cello concerto; piano pieces; songs.