Carl Dörr (company)

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The Carl Dörr company was a Viennese piano factory . The pianos of dried were the 19th and 20th century instrumental in the development of piano building.

history

Carl Dörr (1856–1934)
Carl Dörr in homage to the imperial and royal court and chamber suppliers on the anniversary of the throne in 1908

Daniel Dörr (* 1788/89 in Sonnenberg in Hesse; † January 4, 1837 in Vienna) was the founder of the piano making dynasty. He emigrated, settled in Vienna and in 1817 opened a piano workshop in a small house at Mittersteig 1 in what is now the 4th district of Wieden . On May 27, 1818 he was granted Viennese citizenship.

His son Wilhelm Dörr (I) (born August 15, 1819 in Vienna, †?), Who succeeded him in 1837, initially continued to run the business on a modest scale, but over time he managed to bring it to a handsome bloom . As early as 1845, the company was awarded a medal at the industrial exhibition in Vienna . Wilhelm Dörr received a license on March 15, 1850 and appears as the company owner from the following year. In 1875 the factory was relocated to the company's building at Hofmühlgasse 3 in the 6th district of Mariahilf , and the company grew rapidly and steadily in importance.

Wilhelm's eldest son Wilhelm (II.) (* May 25, 1851; † 1908 in Vienna?) Was a musician and music teacher at the Theresianum and at the Horak Music School and composed songs and church music.

The third-born Carl Dörr ( Karl Dörr , born October 30, 1856 in Vienna; † May 5, 1934 ibid) learned the piano-making trade in his father's business and took over the company in 1882. Around 1899 he was able to enlarge the factory considerably by building a large new courtyard wing in the same building. Carl Dörr received a medal of merit at the World Exhibition in Vienna in 1873 and had been a chamber supplier to Archduchess Maria Immaculata from 1893 , from 1902 chamber supplier to Prince Mirko of Montenegro and an imperial court supplier .

The outbreak of World War I and the collapse of the monarchy brought difficult times for the company, but it was still able to hold its own. It existed until Carl Dörr's death and was deleted in 1936.

The company enjoyed an excellent reputation; their products were counted among the best products of the highly developed piano industry of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. The company's pianos still enjoy a reputation as solid, conservatively built quality instruments. The serial numbers suggest an average annual production of around 200–300 units.

literature

  • Hundred years of existence of the Dörr piano factory, 1817-1917
  • Hopfner 1999
  • Ottner 1977
  • B. Pierce, Piano Atlas 1982, 86
  • Eisenberg 1893

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ standard data entry (GND 1036805212 ) of the German National Library . Query date: May 13, 2017.
  2. ^ Karl Dörr, piano factory. In: Anniversary number of the imperial Wiener Zeitung 1703–1903. Supplement commercial part. Alfred von Lindheim. Druck und Verlag KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, August 8, 1903, p. 63 , accessed on April 30, 2009 .
  3. ^ Family Dörr. In: Rudolf Flotzinger (Ed.): Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2002, (Volume 1), p. 340.

Coordinates: 48 ° 11 ′ 35 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 12 ″  E