Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer

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Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer

Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer (born December 2, 1786 in Erlangen , † April 3, 1860 in Stuttgart ) was a German piano maker.

Life

Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer was born in Erlangen in 1786 as the son of the piano maker Johann David Schiedmayer . He learned the trade in his father's workshop and continued his father's business after his father's death in 1805. In 1806 he left his hometown and moved to Vienna , where he continued his education with Andreas and Nannette Streicher . There he met Carl Friedrich Dieudonné , with whom he set up a first joint workshop after moving to Stuttgart in 1809 in Charlottenstrasse 4. When Friedrich Silcher moved to Stuttgart for two years, he lived in the house of the piano maker. This friendship lasted for decades.

In 1821 a new company building was built by the court architect Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret at Neckarstrasse 14 to 16, on the current site of the House of History and the State University for Music and Performing Arts , of which he was also a co-founder. After the death of Carl Friedrich Dieudonné in 1825, Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer continued to run the business alone. Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer was the first piano maker in Germany to introduce English mechanics . He was also one of the first employers in Stuttgart to get into industrial production and open up to social standards in production.

In 1845 he founded the company Schiedmayer & Soehne together with his two older sons Adolf and Hermann . He sent his two younger sons Julius and Paul to Paris, where they learned how to make the harmonium from Alexandre-François Debain . There they came into contact with Victor Mustel , who later invented the celesta . Back in Stuttgart, they founded the company J & P Schiedmayer , later the Schiedmayer Pianofortefabrik , the first harmonium factory in Germany, in the immediate vicinity of Schiedmayer & Soehne at Neckarstrasse 12 .

With his death in 1860 he left two large industrial companies to his sons. Because of his services to the South German economy, he was honored with a relief during the construction of the Royal Headquarters for Trade and Commerce , today the House of Economy . His grave is located in the historic Fangelsbach cemetery and is a listed building. Regula Rapp , today's rector of the Musikhochschule Stuttgart, writes in her book Musikstädte der Welt about the importance of Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer: "Historians should later count Schiedmayer among the 'fathers of the Württemberg industry'."

swell

  • Michael Latcham (Ed.): The notebook of Johann David Schiedmayer and his son Johann Lorenz. Facsimile - transcription - translation . (= Source catalogs for music history; 49). Wilhelmshaven 2011.
  • Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer a. Carl Dieudonné: Brief instructions for a correct knowledge and treatment of the forte pianos . Stuttgart 1824 (reprint Tübingen 1994). ( Full text on Wikisource )

literature

  • Alexander Eisenmann: Schiedmayer & Sons, Hof-Pianofortefabrik Stuttgart. Prehistory, establishment and further development of the company 1809–1909 . Stuttgart 1909.
  • Margarete Rupprecht: The Schiedmayer family of piano makers. A contribution to the history of piano construction . (Diss. Erlangen 1954).
  • Martin Friedrich Jehle : Württemberg piano maker of the 18th and 19th centuries . Frankfurt a. M. 1982.
  • Regula Rapp: Music cities of the world. Stuttgart . Laaber 1992.
  • Sabine Katharina Klaus: Studies on the history of the development of stringed keyboard instruments up to around 1830 . Vol. 1. Tutzing 1997.
  • Hubert Henkel, Sven Dierke: Schiedmayer . In: Ludwig Finscher (Hrsg.): The music in past and present . Second edition, personal section 2. Kassel / Stuttgart 2005, Sp. 1329–1331.
  • Preethi De Silva (Ed.): The Fortepiano Writings of Streicher, Dieudonné, and the Schiedmayers. Two manuals and a notebook, translated from the original German, with commentary . The Edwin Mellen Press 2008.

Web links

Commons : Schiedmayer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The joint workbook provides information about the work of both: Michael Latcham (Ed.): The notebook of Johann David Schiedmayer and his son Johann Lorenz. Facsimile - transcription - translation (= source catalogs on music history; 49). Wilhelmshaven 2011.
  2. ^ Regula Rapp: Music cities of the world. Stuttgart. Laaber 1992. p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Schiedmayer, Johann Lorenz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German piano maker
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1786
PLACE OF BIRTH gain
DATE OF DEATH April 3, 1860
Place of death Stuttgart