J. Tresselt

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The J. Tresselt piano factory was at times the third largest of its kind in tsarist Russia in the 19th century. It existed between 1835 and 1912, initially only in Riga , then from 1860 also in Saint Petersburg . In the meantime the company was also called Mellenius & Tresselt . Later, the descendants continued to use the J. Tresselt logo, as did the last owner, Rathke.

history

Johann Christian Nicolai Tresselt (* 1823 in Großbreitenbach , † March 15, 1883 in Riga), originally from Thuringia , was the descendant of a Thuringian family of violin makers . His father was a music teacher and came to Riga as such in 1823. Johann Tresselt learned piano making from Hermann Lichtenthal in Saint Petersburg. Between 1849 and 1856 he produced pianos and grand pianos in Riga together with the instrument maker Adolph Mellenius as "Mellenius & Tresselt", from 1857 until his death Johann Tresselt was again the sole owner.

From 1860 he also opened a factory in Saint Petersburg, which, thanks to favorable taxes and official support, soon grew into a large factory. His first son Nikolai Josef Tresselt managed the factory from 1883 to 1890. From 1890 to 1909 his second son Eugen Rudolf Tresselt was the manager of the factory in Saint Petersburg. With an annual production of 6,500 pianos in 1910, the factory was the third largest in Russia.

In 1882, 70 workers in Riga were employed in the factory at large Sandstrasse 22 (today: Smilšu iela ), which also included the building at number 24.

In 1909 Richard Rathke bought the J. Tresselt piano factory after the death of Eugen Rudolph Tresselt. Rathke was the son of the St. Petersburg piano manufacturer Robert Rathke .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erik Fischer, Annelie Kürsten: Musical Instrument Construction In Intercultural Discourse. Franz Steiner, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 978-3-5150-8811-4 , page 48ff.
  2. ↑ Martha Novak Clinkscale: Makers of the Piano: 1820-1860. Oxford University Press, 1993, ISBN 978-0-198-16625-2 , p. 381 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ Carl Otakar Čech: Russia's Industry at the National Exhibition in Moscow 1882. Critical considerations on the most important branches of industry in Russia. General report to the kaiserl. royal Austrian Ministry of Commerce . Grossmann & Knöbel, Moscow 1885, p. 313.
  4. ^ Paul Marie Guillaume Joseph de Wit, Hermann Karl Anton Matzke: Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau , Volume 29, 1908, p. 881.