Carl (Christian) Eisner (also known as Charles Eisner), a horn virtuoso of the 19th century, born in 19.07.1802 in Pulsnitz(Saxonia) was educated in Dresden.
Employed as an imperial court musician in St. Petersburg until 1836, he still found time to travel to Europe as a virtuoso. Show appearances since 1835 are also his own compositions in Dresden, Vienna, Budapest and Leipzig.
In the Allgemeine Musikalische Zeitung his warm tone and brilliant technique is mentioned and specifically noted that he still played on the natural horn. Eisner also controlled, as known from other concert reviews, the new valve horn and transferred the tonal advantages of natural horn to the technically superior valve horn.
Eisner is hired after 1836 in the court orchestra in Dresden and in 1853 named as genuine chamber. The 1856 founded the Conservatory of Music, he belonged to the first teacher of horn. In 22.1.1874, he died in Dresden.
