Johann Christoph Neupert

Johann Christoph Neupert (born December 8, 1842 in Münchberg , Upper Franconia; † September 7, 1921 in Bamberg ) was a German piano maker and the founder of the Hof-Pianofortefabrik JC Neupert .

After attending the trade school in Wunsiedel , he began an apprenticeship as a piano maker at an Oldenburg piano factory. After working in piano manufacturing companies at home and abroad, including with Johann Baptist Streicher in Vienna, he founded his own piano factory in Münchberg in 1868. In 1874 he moved the rapidly growing company to Bamberg . In 1900 he founded a shop in Nuremberg (Marientorgraben 1), later also branches in Bayreuth and Munich. In 1918 he handed the factory over to his three sons, including Hanns Neupert. Johann C. Neupert was a member of the Hofer Masonic Lodge Zum Morgenstern .

The products of the Neupert company included clavichords , spinets , harpsichords and fortepianos.

Max Reger , Elly Ney , Walter Braunfels , Edwin Fischer , Wilhelm Backhaus and Michael Raucheisen were among the pianists who played on concert grand pianos by J. Ch. Neupert .

Neupert was a passionate collector of historical keyboard instruments. The Neupert Collection, continued by his descendants, is one of the most important of its kind in the world and has been closed in the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg since 1968 .

literature

• Johann Christof Neupert † (obituary). In: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau , vol. 42 (1921/22), No. 1, p. 5. ( digitized version )
• Conny Restle :  Neupert. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 178 ( digitized version ).

Web links

• JC Neupert. Manufactory for historical keyboard instruments, Bamberg

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Valentin : Handbuch der Musikinstrumentenkunde. Gustav Bosse, Regensburg 1954, p. 455 ff. ( Instrument maker ).