Carl Heymann (also Karl) (1854, Bingen – 1922, Bingen), was a virtuoso German pianist, composer and piano teacher.
Heymann was considered to the successor to Rubinstein, and taught at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt am Main from 1878-1880. In spite of many interruptions through psychological suffering to his early and fast rise to fame, he was considered one of the most important pianists of his generation and was also known as a composer. Following his period in Frankfurt, he returned to live in Bingen.
After the 1880s the name of the brilliant young Heymann's name disappeared from the musical world. The last third of his life was spent in an institution.
Heymann's repertoire included the virtuoso piano concertos of Ferdinand Ries, Johann Nepomuk Hummel, John Field, Moscheles, Reinecke, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Schumann.
Among his students in Frankfurt were the American pianist and composer Edward MacDowell whom he found to be so talented, that in 1880 he suggested, when illness forced him to resign, that MacDowell be his successor at the Hoch Conservatory - at the age of 19.