Emil Söchting studied at the Royal Institute for Church Music in Berlin with Karl August Haupt and Albert Löschhorn, in piano playing he was a pupil of Ludwig Deppe, according to whose method he taught and which he also recorded in his reform piano school. He wrote numerous piano and chamber music works, including many salon pieces, and published theoretical works under the title The Free Fall; Reform piano school (System Deppe) and school of weight technology, which should acquire greater didactic importance. His reform piano school according to the Deppe system was first published in 1909 by Verlag Heinrichshofen and had numerous editions.
