Henry Steinweg

Biography

Henry Steinweg is mentioned in the text as a young piano maker whom Friedrich Ehrbar met at Hanover in 1848, when both men had set out on their traditional 'Wanderschaft'—the German custom of traveling from town to town to learn and earn under acknowledged masters of the craft. The two young piano makers formed a lasting, intimate friendship during this encounter. No further biographical detail about Steinweg—his subsequent career, later achievements, or family—is given in this section; the text uses the meeting only to illustrate the network of personal relationships among the era's rising piano makers as they trained and traveled across Germany and Austria before establishing their own reputations.

Highlights

• Met Friedrich Ehrbar at Hanover while both were on their 'Wanderschaft' as young piano makers, forming a lasting friendship

Source

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

Public domain.