Heubeck (piano making family)

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The Heubeck family of piano makers were three Franconian instrument makers in the 19th century in Erlangen , Nuremberg , Ansbach and London . The founder and father Conrad Heubeck moved to Erlangen, where there was already a qualified piano-making tradition of Balthasar Schiedmayer (1711–1781) and his sons.

Fortepiano with the Conrad Heubeck company sign in Erlangen , around 1810
  • Conrad Heubeck (born November 19, 1775 in Schwarzenbach an der Saale , died September 15, 1837 in Erlangen) founded a piano- making workshop in Erlangen in 1803 . During his time, the second wife and widow of Bayreuth Margrave Friedrich , Sophie Caroline Marie von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel, lived in the Margravial Palace Erlangen (until 1817, for a total of 53 years), who enriched Erlangen's musical life to a remarkable extent. Two sons of Heubeck also became piano makers. A fortepiano that he made from around 1810 is now privately owned. After his death in 1837, his second son Johann Sebastian took over his workshop.
  • Friedrich Heubeck (1808 - after 1850) founded a piano factory in Ansbach in 1834, which he moved to Nuremberg in 1844. In 1846 he went on a business trip that led to London. From this he did not return. Thereupon his wife Catharina Regine, geb. Stunz, the bankruptcy in Nuremberg . Friedrich Heubeck is said to have worked in London around 1850.
  • Johann Sebastian Heubeck (1810–1893) took over his father's workshop in Erlangen. He wanted to move it there in 1847, possibly because his brother left Nuremberg, but only got permission from the city after repeated requests in 1851. Here he soon began industrial production. On his application in 1853 he was awarded the title of manufacturer in Nuremberg . His instruments were exhibited at trade shows in Leipzig and Munich . At the age of 60 he became a privateer . He died impoverished in Nuremberg in 1893 ( Theodor Wohnhaas ). The Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg is keeping a square piano by JS Heubeck from 1860.
  • The University of Erlangen owns a grand piano from him (before 1851) (and other individual parts?).

literature

  • Theodor Wohnhaas: The piano makers Heubeck in Erlangen and Nuremberg. 1803-1871 . In: Yearbook of the Historical Association for Middle Franconia 1967 (1965).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See BLMO Bayerisches Musiklexikon, Erlanger Stadtlexikon and Nürnberger Künstlerlexikon 2007 (all three digital).
  2. ↑ Article Sophie Caroline Marie . In: Erlanger Stadtlexikon .
  3. ↑ About Heubeck and his sons see in particular Theodor Wohnhaas: The piano makers Heubeck in Erlangen and Nuremberg. 1803-1871 . In: Yearbook of the Historical Association for Middle Franconia 1967.
  4. ^ Nürnberger Künstler Lexikon 2007, Vol. 2.
  5. ^ The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg 1743-1993. History of a German university . Book for the exhibition in the Stadtmuseum Erlangen, Nuremberg 1993, ISBN 3-930035-00-6 , p. 651/52.
  6. ↑ The date has yet to be clarified.