Heinrich Ludolf Mack

Biography

Heinrich Ludolf Mack is named in the text as the Dresden master under whom Ernst Philip Rosenkrantz served his apprenticeship before starting his own piano-making firm in 1797. No further information is given about Mack himself—his birth or death dates, the scope of his own piano-making business, or his broader standing among Dresden makers—beyond this single fact of having trained Rosenkrantz. His inclusion situates him within the network of master craftsmen in early Dresden piano making whom the author traces as the source of later successful independent firms, paralleling similar master-apprentice relationships noted elsewhere in the chapter, such as Stein under Silbermann and Ehrbar under Seuffert.

Highlights

• Dresden master under whom Ernst Philip Rosenkrantz served his apprenticeship

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911).

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