André Stein
Matthäus Andreas Stein (born December 12, 1776 in Augsburg , † May 6, 1842 in Vienna ) was the son of the organ and piano maker Johann Andreas Stein and himself also a piano maker .
Life
After the death of his father in 1794, Matthäus Andreas Stein founded a piano factory together with his sister Nannette Streicher in Vienna under the name Frère et Soeur Stein . In 1802 they parted company and each continued to run their own company, Matthäus Andreas under the name André Stein . He was acquainted with Ludwig van Beethoven , whose instruments he also maintained.
Around July 8, 1823, Stein traveled with Friedrich Wieck to Hetzendorf , where they both visited Beethoven. The informative conversation is documented in Beethoven's conversation books and a letter from Wieck. In 1828 Wieck bought a grand piano from Matthäus Andreas Stein for his daughter Clara . Today he is in the Robert-Schumann-Haus in Zwickau and was shown together with Clara Schumann on the back of the 100 DM note.
A pianoforte in the Technisches Museum Wien , which has an additional reed register (physharmonica), is evidence of a temporary collaboration with the instrument maker Jacob Deutschmann between 1830 and 1835 .
Matthäus Andreas Stein's son Carl Andreas Stein (born September 4, 1797; † August 28, 1863 in Vienna) also learned the piano-making trade, received his piano-making license in 1829 and took over the business of the famous piano maker Conrad Graf in 1841 . In 1844 he received the title of " kk Hof-Pianoforte manufacturer".
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Stein, Matthäus Andreas . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, p. 43 ( digitized version ).
- Catalog of the collection of old musical instruments, Part I: String pianos . Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 1966
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Ed.) U. a .: Beethoven from the point of view of his contemporaries in diaries, letters, poems and memories. Volume 2: Lachner - Zmeskall. Edited by the Beethoven Research Center at the Berlin University of the Arts. Henle, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-87328-120-2 , pp. 1093-1095.
- ↑ Martha Novak Clinkscale: Makers of the Piano / Volume 2/1820 - 1860. Oxford University Press 1999, 495 pp. ISBN 0-19-816625-7 Jacob Deutschmann & André Stein
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stein, André |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stein, Matthäus Andreas (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German piano maker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 12, 1776 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | augsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1842 |
| Place of death | Vienna |