Walter Rummel

(July 19, 1887 – May 2, 1953) Pianist, composer and transcriber (arranger), and music editor. His father Franz Rummel was a pianist, and mother Cornelia "Leila" Morse Rummel was a daughter of Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph. Studied piano with Leopold Godowsky, and after moving to Paris in 1909 befriended Debussy and premiered ten of Debussy's works.