Peter Adolph Rudolph Ibach
Peter Adolph Rudolph Ibach , also Rudolf Ibach the Elder (born January 30, 1843 in Barmen (now part of Wuppertal ), † July 31, 1892 in Herrenalb ), later also in the spelling Adolf and Rudolf , was a piano maker from Wuppertal , entrepreneur and patrons .
biography
Peter Adolph Rudolph Ibach grew up in a middle-class family and was able to go on numerous trips as a teenager. After the death of his father Carl Rudolph Ibach in 1863, he initially worked as an employee of the Barmer piano and organ manufacture, which his grandfather Johann Adolph Ibach had founded in 1794 and bequeathed to his father and which was initially run by his mother and his organ-loving uncle.
In 1869, PA Rudolph Ibach decided to separate piano manufacture from manual organ building and founded the Rud company as a separate company . Ibach son . He led his company into the industrial age of piano making, which soon expanded the business considerably. In addition, Ibach founded the distribution through the retail trade; As a craft business, the company had previously sold all instruments directly to customers. Several honorary prizes at the world exhibitions of 1869, 1873 and 1879 consolidated his reputation, the titles of “ Court Supplier to His Royal Highness the Prince of the Netherlands” (1876) and “Royal Court Piano Manufacturer” at the Prussian court contributed to the company's fame. In 1874 a branch was founded in Cologne. In 1876 Ibach built a new factory building in Barmen near the Barmer train station, which is still reminiscent of the “Ibachstraße” there today. In 1879 Ibach was represented in London. In 1882 Ibach finally acquired a new site in Schwelm, on which he had a new factory built to manufacture up to 4,000 instruments a year. In 1869, the factory at the previous location had only manufactured 70 instruments. The new Schwelm factory was the company's production site until 2007.
As the leading piano manufacturer of his time, PA Rudolph Ibach maintained intensive, sometimes friendly contact with well-known pianists and composers of his time, such as Emil (von) Sauer , Franz Abt , Franz Liszt , Richard Wagner , Johannes Brahms and Max Reger . His interest in art was great. Ibach drew a lot. In addition, he announced artist competitions for the design of piano cases, the results of which were awarded many times (such as a historically designed instrument in the Renaissance style in Düsseldorf in 1880).
Ibach was a member of various cultural associations in his hometown, such as the Barmer Kunstverein or the Barmer Stadttheater-Aktiengesellschaft founded in 1872, and in several choral societies. A staircase near the Barmer facilities , for which Ibach was also involved, is named after him.
From 1871 Ibach began collecting musical instruments, which he made available to the public for the first time in 1888 in his apartment and later in the piano factory as a museum. He also founded the first Wuppertal music library in 1889 through the agency in Barmen. The collection with over 150 exhibits was sold to Wilhelm Heyer in Cologne in 1907 and finally ended up in the Leipzig Musical Instrument Museum, where part of it was burned during the Second World War. The remaining exhibits are still part of the collection of the Grassi Museum for Musical Instruments at the University of Leipzig .
Ibach died in 1892 during a spa stay in Herrenalb and left the business to his wife and the growing children. His widow initially continued to run the company. In 1905, the fourth generation of the family, Albert Rudolf Ibach, took over the business. Rudolf Ibach the Elder was buried in the Unterbarmer cemetery .
literature
- Joachim Dorfmüller: Rudolf Ibach the Elder Ä. In: Wuppertal biographies. 13th episode , Wuppertal (Born) 1977, ISBN 3-87093-025-X
- Florian Speer : Pianos and grand pianos from Wupperthale - instrument making in the Wupper region and on the Lower Rhine during the 19th century using the example of the organ and piano building family Ibach , Diss., Wuppertal 2000 ( as pdf )
- Friedrich Ernst: Ibach, Rudolf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 110 f. ( Digitized version ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description of the Ibach Collection on the website of the Leipzig Musical Instrument Museum ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ibach, Peter Adolph Rudolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ibach, Rudolf the Elder |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German piano maker and entrepreneur |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Barmen |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 31, 1892 |
| Place of death | Herrenalb |