Carl Cohn Haste was a Danish

Denmark

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 pianist, organist and composer.
Blind from the age of 5 after an eye inflammation, he became music teacher at the Royal Blind Institute, composer and the first president of Danish Association of the Blind.

From 1883–1892 he was a pupil at the Blind Institute. Then he studied at the Royal Danish Academy of Music from 1893–1895 under Victor Bendix

Victor Bendix

Victor Emanuel Bendix was a Jewish Danish composer, conductor and pianist. His teachers included Niels Gade....

 and Orla Rosenhof. In 1896 he made his debut as concert pianist and from 1898 he was employed as the Blind Institute as a music teacher. Most of the blind organists who were employed in the early 1900s were trained by him. Alongside his teaching work and organization work, he was in the younger years regularly away on concert tours across Denmark, Sweden and Germany.

In 1928 Carl Cohn was awarded the Knight of the Dannebrog.

Notable works

• Prelude and fugue in e minor (piano 1894)
• Prelude and fugue in g minor (piano 1894)
• Paroa symphony (1902)
• Prelude and intermezzo (piano 1919)
• Cantata for the Royal Blind Institute (1920)
• Holiday Scenes (piano 1920)
• Prelude and fugue in f minor (piano 1926)
• some songs