Brothers Stingl
| Brothers Stingl | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1860 |
| Seat | Vienna |
| Branch | Manufacture and wholesale of pianos |
The Stingl brothers were a Viennese family company that manufactured pianos . The address was at Ungargasse 27 in the 3rd district of Landstrasse .
history
The founder of the company, Anton Stingl (born September 11, 1808 in Königswart near Eger , † 1895 in Pitten / Lower Austria), emigrated to Vienna, where he learned the carpentry trade from 1840 from his uncle Ignaz Stingl, Am Hundsturm 32. He worked as a piano body maker from 1853 and became self-employed in 1860. His workshop was at Starhemberggasse 28 in the 4th district. At first he supplied the artisan piano manufacturers. The company was expanded and reorganized in 1887. His three sons, Wilhelm (1860–1908), Ignaz (1861–1915) and Gustav (born September 7, 1868 in Vienna; † November 27, 1906 in Vienna) joined the company. Wilhelm Stingl was a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Ignaz Stingl was an Imperial Councilor and Gustav Stingl was a Christian Social Councilor from 1900 to 1904. After the death of their father, they became owners and accordingly renamed the company to "Gebrüder Stingl".
The company grew rapidly and a new factory was built at Laxenburger Strasse 32 in the 10th district; Additional locations were at Holzplatz 10 and Randhartingergasse 3. In 1895/1896 the old traditional company Johann Baptist Streicher was sold by his son Emil to the "Stingl Brothers". The production of Stingl was relocated to the Neue Streicherhof.
Because of their success and their access to the imperial court, the Stingl brothers were appointed kk court pianoforte manufacturers and from April 14, 1900 they were appointed court clavier manufacturers. The Stingl brothers also received foreign court titles such as those of Persian, Serbian and Bulgarian purveyors to the court and others. The company manufactured grand pianos with Viennese and English repeater mechanisms , but also developed high-quality concert pianinos. Specialties were the harp pedal and the “Piccolo-Mignon”, the smallest piano in the world at the time.
By the First World War , Stingl had developed into the largest piano factory in Austria-Hungary and employed around 400 people. Another branch was opened in Budapest. The collapse of the monarchy hit the company hard, after 1918 it was briefly reorganized as "Stingl-Original", then converted into a limited liability company and in 1922 into a stock corporation . The address was at Troststrasse 10. In 1935 the Stingl company was taken over by Lauberger & Gloss , which continued to build the instruments under the name "Stingl-Original". Like many other Viennese piano factories, Lauberger & Gloss ceased production in the early 1960s.
Another "Stingl" company was that of Gustav Stingl's son Gustav Ignaz (1900–1960). In 1921 he founded his own company under his name at Favoritenstraße 17 in the 4th district. In 1923 Robert Rella from the Viennese building dynasty of the same name joined the company. Gustav Ignaz Stingl has been strongly export-oriented since the 1920s. Gustav Ignaz Stingl was a member of the guild committee for piano and organ builders from 1932 and later its board member. The company's head office later moved to 18 Wiedner Hauptstrasse in the 4th district, and the workshops were located at 38 Wolfganggasse in the 12th district. In 1948 an open family company was established. This later became the sole property of Gustav Ignaz Sych, a nephew of the last Stingl. After the Second World War , deliveries began to the then State Academy for Music in Vienna, the Conservatory of the City of Vienna, various universities and the Salzburg Festival .
Numerous musical personalities acquired Stingl products, for example Carl Michael Ziehrer , Franz Lehár , Robert Stolz , Udo Jürgens and Franz Schmidt and state opera singers. Stingl also has the European representation of the Japanese piano manufacturer Kawai .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brothers Stingl. In: Rudolf Flotzinger (Ed.): Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2006, (Volume 5), p. 2314.
- ^ Atlas of piano numbers, Erwin Bochinsky publishing house, Frankfurt am Main.
literature
- Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 5: Ru - Z. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-218-00547-7 , p. 349.
- Rudolf Hopfner: Viennese musical instrument maker. 1766-1900. Address directory and bibliography. Schneider, Tutzing 1999, ISBN 3-7952-0983-8 .
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Coordinates: 48 ° 12 ′ 7.3 " N , 16 ° 23 ′ 15.1" E