Mathias Müller (piano maker)

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Mathias Müller , also Mathias Müller the Elder Ä. , (* February 24, 1770 in Usingen - Wernborn , Hesse ; † December 28, 1844 in Vienna ) was a German-Austrian piano maker .

Life

Hammerklavier by Mathias Müller

Müller was born on February 24, 1770 in Wernborn , now the city of Usingen , near Frankfurt am Main . He moved to Vienna as a journeyman . There he was allowed to put down his masterpiece in 1796 despite a court appeal by the bourgeois organ and instrument makers. The master dignity and civil rights got Müller on May 5, 1797 awarded. He was given permission to manufacture pianos on December 24, 1804. He began manufacturing pianos in his house on Gestattengasse in Vienna. The production permit was accompanied by the use of the imperial double-headed eagle in the signature. His production facility moved to Leopoldstadt in 1819 . Müller was the head of the bourgeois piano maker and a sworn appraiser .

Müller developed the piano further. He was one of the most innovative piano makers in Vienna and had several inventions patented. In 1797 he invented a piano instrument in the shape of a harp laid across . This instrument took up little space. But more important in the development of piano manufacturing was his invention of the Dittaleloclange, also known as Ditanaclasis , in 1800 . This was a fortepiano, which spanned 5½ octaves and in which the strings are struck near the upper fastening point. This design enabled a lower overall height and had an impact on the sound.

He built it as a double instrument, one of which was tuned an octave higher and both players could see each other over the case. The Ditanaclasis were also built as a simple instrument from 1803 and since 1801 it had a sliding keyboard that made additional dynamic shades possible.

When Carl Leopold Röllig died in 1804, Müller took over the privileges he had acquired from his heirs and manufactured the orphicas invented by Rölling . The upper hammer mechanism, in which the hammers are attached to a hammer bank and the trigger at the end of the key, was developed by Müller between 1823 and 1824. He patented a jack mechanism in 1835, an improved frame construction made of iron in 1829 and of wood in 1833. The fork -Harmon-Pianoforte from 1827 did not use bridge pins, but tuning forks that corresponded to the respective tone. He submitted some patents with his son Mathias Müller the Elder. J. a.

Mathias Müller married Elisabeth Kilian. They had eleven children and his son Mathias the Elder. J. also became a piano maker. Müller died in Vienna on December 28, 1844.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Rudolf Hopfner: Müller, family. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3045-7 . (Accessed June 29, 2017).
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Mathias
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Mathias the Elder; Müller, Mathias the Elder Ä.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian piano and organ builder
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH Usingen - Wernborn
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1844
Place of death Vienna