Anton Walter (piano maker)

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Anton Walter at the age of 73 (portrait of Friedrich Gauermann)
Fortepiano by Anton Walter & Sohn, Vienna around 1810 ( Musikinstrumenten-Museum Berlin )

Gabriel Anton Walter (born February 5, 1752 in Neuhausen auf den Fildern ( Upper Austria ), † April 11, 1826 in Vienna ) was one of the most important piano makers at the time of the Viennese Classic .

Life

From 1778 to 1825 Anton Walter ran a piano-making workshop on the Laimgrube in Vienna. In 1790 he received the title of " kk chamber organ builder and instrument maker" and in 1791 took the citizens' oath . In 1796 he was mentioned in the Yearbook of Tonkunst in Vienna and Prague as the most famous piano maker of his time. His instruments have been played and praised by composers such as Joseph Haydn , Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert . He owned an estate in Miesenbach and was Jakob Gauermann's father-in-law .

Even today, Walter pianos - both original and replica - are played on concert stages around the world.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rita Steblin , Anton Walter's Difficult Early Years in Vienna: New Documents, 1772–1779. Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society; vol. 33 2007, 41-75
  2. ↑ Catalog of the collection of old musical instruments, Part I: String pianos, Vienna: Kunsthistorisches Museum 1966 (with incorrect biographical information)
  3. ^ Das Wiener Klavier , (report of the symposium Das Wiener Klavier bis 1850 organized by the collection of old musical instruments of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna from October 16 to October 18, 2003), ed. by Beatrix Darmstädter, Alfons Huber and Rudolf Hopfner, Vienna 2007
  4. ↑ Memory of the country - persons: Jakob Gauermann. Retrieved July 7, 2017 .

literature

  • Wilibald Gurlitt , Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Walter, Gabriel Anton. 12th completely revised edition. 2. Person part L – ZB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1961, p. 887 (first edition: 1882).
  • Wilibald Gurlitt, Carl Dahlhaus (ed.): Riemann Music Lexicon. In three volumes and two supplementary volumes. Walter, Gabriel Anton. 12th completely revised edition. 5. Person part L – ZB Schotts-Söhne, Mainz 1972, p. 875 (first edition: 1882).

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personal data
SURNAME Walter, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walter, Gabriel Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Hungarian court organ and instrument maker
DATE OF BIRTH February 5, 1752
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuhausen on the Fildern
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 1826
Place of death Vienna