Johann Baptist Streicher

Johann Baptist Streicher, lithograph by Adolf Dauthage , 1862

Piano from the manufactory of Johann Baptist Streicher (Vienna, 1869)

Tomb of Johann Baptist Streicher

Johann Baptist Streicher (born January 3, 1796 in Vienna ; † March 28, 1871 there ) was an important piano maker in the 19th century.

Life

Streicher was the son of Andreas Streicher and Nannette Streicher . He learned the craft of piano maker in his parents' piano factory. In 1823 he became a partner and, after the death of his parents in 1833, sole owner of the company, which developed numerous patents under his leadership and achieved international recognition. The German piano maker Johann Bernhard Klems was one of his most famous students .

Johann Baptist's son Emil Streicher sold the company to the Stingl brothers in 1896 because his son Theodor Streicher did not want to take it over, but only wanted to work as a composer.

In 1893 the Streichergasse in Vienna- Landstrasse (3rd district) was named after him.

He rests in his father's grave of honor in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32A, number 30)

family

Johann Baptist Streicher was first married to Auguste geb. André married who died on July 1, 1847 at the age of 45. The son Emil Streicher (born April 24, 1836 in Vienna; † January 9, 1916 there) comes from the marriage. He joined his father's company in 1857 and ran it alone after his father's death.

In his second marriage, Johann Baptist Streicher married the pianist Friederike Müller on January 7, 1849 . The daughter Carolin Johanna, born on October 25, 1849, comes from this marriage.

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Streicher, Johann Baptist . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 40th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1880, pp. 16–18 ( digitized version ).
• Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna . Volume 5. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-218-00547-0 , p. 378.
• Alexander Rausch : The Rauscher family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .
• Uta Goebl-Streicher: The travel diary of the piano maker Johann Baptist Streicher 1821–1822 , Schneider, Tutzing 2009, ISBN 978-3-7952-1270-4 .
• Peter Donhauser, Alexander Langer: Strings. Three generations of piano manufacturing in Vienna , Dohr, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-86846-102-2 .

Web links

Commons : Johann Baptist Streicher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Streicher, Johann Baptist , in Constant von Wurzbach , Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich , Volume 40, Vienna 1880.
• Streicher, a dynasty of piano manufacturers. District Museum Landstrasse, archived from the original on December 5, 2013 ; accessed on January 3, 2018 . 
• JBStreicher in the fortepiano photo archive .
• Keyboard wiki ( Memento from December 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) - Online database on historical piano makers.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uta Goebl-Streicher (2009), p. 19.