Johann Andreas Stumpff

Johann Andreas Stumpff, chalk drawing by Johann Joseph Schmeller , 1829 (Weimar, Goethe National Museum)

Johann Andreas Stumpff (born January 27, 1769 in Ruhla ; † November 2, 1846 in London ) was a German harp and piano manufacturer .

Life

Stumpff was a son of the instrument maker Johann Heinrich Stumpff and moved to London in 1790. There he first worked for the company John Broadwood & Sons before he became the owner of his own instrument factory around 1810.

In 1824 he made a trip to Austria and Germany, where he in Salzburg with Constanze Mozart met and in Vienna with Ludwig van Beethoven . In 1826 he gave Beethoven the magnificent 40-volume edition of the works of George Frideric Handel, edited by Samuel Arnold .

literature

• Ludwig Storch , Johann Andreas Stumpff. Character and life sketch. In: Newspaper for the elegant world , vol. 49 (1849), p. 177ff. (Digitized version)
• Ludwig Storch, a generous man from the people. In: Die Gartenlaube , 1857, Heft 32–34, pp. 437–440, 455–457, 468–470 (online at Wikisource)
• Friedrich Chrysander , Beethoven's connection with Birchall and Stumpff in London. In: Yearbooks for Musical Science , ed. by Friedrich Chrysander, Volume 1 (1863), pp. 429–452 (digitized version )
• Ernst Friedrich, the instrument maker Johann Andreas Stumpff, a friend of Beethoven. In: Yearbook of the State Institute for Music Research Prussian Cultural Heritage 1968 (1969), pp. 119–127
• Pamela J. Willetts, Johann Andreas Stumpff, 1769–1846. In: The Musical Times , vol. 118, no.1607 from January 1977, p. 29ff. (on-line)
• Klaus Martin Kopitz and Oliver Korte , “Written on his death-bed”. A Beethoven - Autograph from the possession of Johann Andreas Stumpff. In: Johannes Laas and Cordula Heymann-Wentzel (Eds.), Music and Biography. Festschrift Rainer Cadenbach for his 60th birthday , Würzburg 2004, pp. 179–196, ISBN 3-8260-2804-X (Google books)
• 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. 968-979.