Andreas Streicher

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Andreas Streicher , bust of Franz Klein
Streicher on the run with his friend Friedrich Schiller
Grave of Andreas Streicher

Johann Andreas Streicher (born December 13, 1761 in Stuttgart , † May 25, 1833 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian pianist , composer and piano maker .

Life

Andreas Streicher, son of a master mason who died early, grew up in the Stuttgart orphanage from 1771.

Excluded from higher education, he found his way through music. His musical talent brought him into contact with court musicians and music students at the Charles School . Friedrich Schiller , with whom Streicher became friends , also studied there . Together they secretly attended the premiere of The Robbers in Mannheim in 1782 and another performance four months later, for which Schiller had to atone for 14 days in prison. In the same year, the two fled Stuttgart to Mannheim. Streicher later wrote a well-read book about this escape. Actually, he wanted to travel on to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in Hamburg and take lessons there. But he had generously lent his savings to Friedrich Schiller, whom he helped out of existential need. So Streicher had to stay in Mannheim. Strings lived there from piano lessons and gave concerts. In 1786 he moved to Munich, where he became known as a piano teacher and increasingly also as a composer.

Strings grand around 1820

In 1793 he married Nannette Stein (1769–1833), daughter of the Augsburg piano maker Johann Andreas Stein . In 1794 the couple went to Vienna, where Nannette and her brother Matthäus Andreas Stein opened the piano factory "Frère et Sœur Stein". After the division of the company in 1802, Streicher acquired the necessary technical knowledge and joined his wife's business as a piano maker himself. He and Nannette were important confidants of Ludwig van Beethoven in the last years of his life.

Andreas Streicher was a good piano player: The “Mannheimer Zeitung” reported on a concert in Heidelberg on December 4, 1785: “Streicher suggested a piano concerto by Haydn and, before the end, a piano sonata by Clementi . His game full of expression and spirit, be more precise, highly finished presentation received the admiration and deserved applause of all connoisseurs. "Strings, whose own concert hall was opened in April 1812 initiated the performance of Georg Friedrich Handel's Alexander's Feast , which then establishing Society of Music Friends in Vienna and took place in the winter riding school. He took over the rehearsal of the choirs and the continuo part of the performance . The Streicher couple was one of the founders of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde.

As a piano maker he was one of the most important and innovative representatives of his profession in Vienna. From 1802 his wife Nannette managed the company "Nannette Streicher née Stein". Together with her son Johann Baptist Streicher (1796–1871), she brought the company world renown. Many well-known composers and noblemen had their pianos built by Strings or attended the Sunday matinee .

"Andreas Streicher published some piano works and a piano school, was involved in the first complete edition of Beethoven's works, in particular for the establishment of a singing school and the publication of a hymn book with Protestant church music in Vienna."

The so-called “Alte Streicherhof” was located at Ungargasse No. 46 in Vienna's 3rd district , the “Neue Streicherhof” later at Ungargasse No. 27. Both buildings were damaged in World War II and the “Alte Streicherhof” was demolished in 1959.

Streicher was buried at the Sankt Marxer Friedhof in Vienna and in 1891 transferred with his wife to an honorary grave at the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 A, number 30). The Streichergasse is named after his son Johann Baptist Streicher . The composer Theodor Streicher was his great-grandson.

Works

  • Andreas Streicher: Schiller's escape from Stuttgart and stay in Mannheim from 1782 to 1785. Stuttgart and Augsburg, publishing house of JB Metzler'schen Buchhandlung. 1836.
  • Ten chorale preludes for organ (with cantus firmus) , op.4 (published by Musikverlag Christoph Dohr , Cologne 2006, ISBN 979-0-20201250-5 .)
  • Letters from Andreas Streicher are in the holdings of the Leipzig music publisher CF Peters in the Leipzig State Archives .

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Streicher, Johann Andreas . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 40th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1880, pp. 13–16 ( digitized version ).
  • Wilhelm Lütge, Andreas and Nannette Streicher. In: The Bear. Breitkopf & Härtel yearbook for 1927 , Leipzig 1927, pp. 53–69
  • Felix Czeike , Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 5. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-218-00547-0 , pp. 377-378.
  • Peter Clive, Beethoven and His World: A Biographical Dictionary , New York 2001, pp. 357-359.
  • Alexander Reck, Schiller's escape helper and Beethoven's piano maker. In: Official Gazette of the City of Stuttgart , No. 21 of May 23, 2008, p. 8.
  • Klaus Martin Kopitz , Rainer Cadenbach (Eds.) A. 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. 950-953.
  • Strings Andreas. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 13, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2007–2010,ISBN 978-3-7001-6963-5, p. 386 f. (Direct links on p. 386 , p. 387 ).
  • Christoph Öhm-Kühnle, strings. Family: (Johann) [Andreas] (1), his son Johann Baptist (2) . In: Music in the past and present. General encyclopedia of music , founded by Friedrich Blume. 2nd, revised edition, ed. by Ludwig Finscher. [Part 2.] Person part , [Vol.] 16 Strat – Vil . Kassel, Basel, London, New York, Prague; Stuttgart, Weimar [Thuringia] [2006], Sp. 169-171; here col. 169 f .: 1. (Johann) Andreas ; Col. 170 f. (Col. 170 "Works"; Col. 170 f .: 2. Johann Baptist.)
  • Christoph Öhm-Kühnle: "He knows how to make every note sing". The musician and piano maker Johann Andreas Streicher (1761–1833) - compositional and cultural work in a biographical context. Sources - Function - Analysis . Phil. Diss. Tübingen from June 25, 2008. (Tübingen: Publisher: TOBIAS-lib, Hochschulschriftenserver der Universität Tübingen, 2008.) - 263 sheets, illustrations. - Online edition with the URL: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:21-opus-34458  :
  • Christoph Öhm-Kühnle: "He knows how to make every note sing". The musician and piano builder Johann Andreas Streicher (1761-1833) - compositions and cultural impact in the biographic context. Sources - Function - Analysis . - Book trade edition:
  • Christoph Öhm-Kühnle, “He knows how to make every note sing”. The musician and piano maker Johann Andreas Streicher (1761–1833) - compositional and cultural work in a biographical context. Sources - Function - Analysis . Strube, Munich 2011. ( Sources and studies on music in Baden-Württemberg , edited by the Society for Music History in Baden-Württemberg eV, Volume 9; Strube Edition , 9144). Partly at the same time Phil. Diss. Tübingen 2008. - 26 illustrations, music examples. ISBN 978-3-89912-146-9 .
  • Reinhard Breymayer, astronomy, calendar dispute and love theology. From Erhard Weigel […] to Friedrich Christoph Oetinger and Philipp Matthäus Hahn to Friedrich Schiller, Johann Andreas Streicher, Franz Joseph Graf von Thun and Hohenstein, Mozart and Beethoven . Heck, Dußlingen 2016. ISBN 978-3-924249-58-8 . See especially pp. 132-169; here pp. 133–137 research literature (many titles).
  • Alexander Rausch : The Rauscher family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .

Web links

Commons : Andreas Streicher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Frieder Reininghaus: A man of action and music: Johann Andreas Streicher ; Deutschlandfunk, calendar sheet from December 12, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Streicher, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Streicher, Johann Andreas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian piano manufacturer and composer
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1833
Place of death Vienna