Personal Life
Like all the Lachner brothers, he was friendly with Johannes Brahms. In 1879, he wrote a letter to Brahms asking why he had used trombones, tuba, and a drumroll — trombones being associated with death — early in the pastoral first movement of his Second Symphony. Brahms replied in detail, expressing the "great and genuine" pleasure he received from the letter, calling Lachner's analyses unusually perceptive and insightful, then "admitting" that "I am a deeply melancholy person, black bird-wings constantly rustle above us."
Lachner died in Karlsruhe after a number of strokes at age 81.
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