Steingraeber house
| Steingraeber house | |
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 Entrance to the courtyard at the Steingraeber house |
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| Data | |
| place | Bayreuth |
| builder |
Joseph Saint-Pierre , Carl von Gontard |
| Construction year | 1754 |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 56 '33 " N , 11 ° 34' 23.6" E |
The Steingraeber-Haus is the seat of the piano manufacturer Steingraeber & Sons in Bayreuth .
history
At the site of the present-day property was the Fronhof , which served as a manorial warehouse for the subjects' tithes . Its exemption from all city taxes was confirmed by Margrave Friedrich in 1439 .
The building at Friedrichstrasse 2 was built in 1754 according to the plans of the French architect Joseph Saint-Pierre and the German Carl von Gontard in the Rococo style for the “cameraman” of Margrave Friedrich . Remnants of the Bayreuth city wall on Dammallee were built over. After the name of the first owner, it was initially called Liebhardtsches Palais.
The Steingraeber-Haus serves as a rehearsal stage for the Bayreuth Festival .
architecture
The main building of the property (the so-called Corps de Logis ) is a sandstone block building with a central projectile and a gable-crowned dwarf . The parapet on the first floor has simply designed window aprons . Two outbuildings stand across the street. Behind the building there was initially a small garden in front of the city wall, outside the city wall a slightly larger one.
Inside, several differently used rooms have been restored. They are decorated with stucco by Giovanni Battista Pedrozzi and wall paintings and contain historical furniture. The rococo hall, the splendid room of the house, is equipped with a Liszt grand piano from 1873 and is used for special chamber concerts. This is followed by the Chippendale room with a wing by Eduard Steingraeber and the four-seasons salon.
The new chamber music hall or concert hall in the adjacent building is used for regular chamber music concerts. A second, smaller hall, the north hall, is especially suitable for song pianists and singers . The house also has a hermitage. The piano manufacturer produces high-quality pianos and concert grand pianos, some of the rare pieces of which are alternately exhibited in the "Flügelhaus".
Events
Around 70 events take place in the house every year, including the Bayreuth Piano Festival and the Time for New Music by the composers Helmut Bieler and Wolfram Graf . The mobile court theater in the inner courtyard of the building is used by the Bayreuth studio stage as a performance venue during the festival. Parodies of the works of Richard Wagner are played .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Karl Müssel: Bayreuth in eight centuries . 1st edition. Gondrom, Bindlach 1993, ISBN 3-8112-0809-8 , p. 45 .
- ↑ by Michael Petzet, Denis A. Chevalley, Hans W. Lübbeke, Michael Nitz: Monuments in Bavaria. Ensembles, architectural monuments, archaeological site monuments. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1986, ISBN 3-486-52395-3 , p. 46.
- ↑ Kurt Herterich, Im historic Bayreuth , Verlag Ellwanger, Bayreuth 1998, ISBN 3-925361-35-9
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: LaVoce brochure (PDF)