Johann Andreas Streicher

Biography

Johann Andreas Streicher was born at Stuttgart on December 13, 1761. He attended the renowned Karl Schule at Mannheim together with Friedrich Schiller, whose friendship he retained ever after. On leaving school he devoted himself entirely to the study of music, especially the piano, gaining renown as a virtuoso, composer and teacher. It was natural that Beethoven, while living in Vienna, would become a warm friend of such congenial people, who always kept open house and assembled celebrities of the day around their table; this friendship lasted until the composer's last days. In 1794 Streicher married Nannette Stein, and although he soon took an active part in the piano business she had inherited from her father Johann Andreas Stein, it continued to be carried on under her own name until 1822. Streicher died at Vienna in May 1833, shortly after his wife Nannette's death that January. Johann Andreas Streicher married Nannette Stein, daughter of piano maker Johann Andreas Stein. The couple moved to Vienna, where together they founded what Dolge calls the 'Vienna school' of piano makers.

Highlights

• Married Nannette Stein and, with her, founded the 'Vienna school' of piano makers
• Attended the Karl Schule at Mannheim alongside Friedrich Schiller, a lifelong friend
• Gained renown as a virtuoso, composer and teacher, and became a close friend of Beethoven
• Married Nannette Stein in 1794 and later took an active part in her piano business

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. I (1911), p. 219.

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