Theodore E. Steinway

Biography

Theodore E. Steinway was born October 16, 1883, in New York, and attended St. Paul's school in Garden City, graduating in 1900. Choosing the career of a piano constructor, he spent five years at the bench in the Steinway piano factories to become thoroughly versed in the craft, and afterward became assistant to Henry Ziegler, preparing himself to eventually follow in the footsteps of his uncle, Theodore Steinway, and his cousin, Henry Ziegler. Described as a man of the world with a fiery and impulsive temperament, he was a great reader of both fiction and serious literature, an accomplished linguist, and a bibliophile. Steinway is noted for his sentimental attachment to family history: upon entering married life he chose his home in the apartments erected on the site of the old Steinway factories on Park Avenue and Fifty-third Street, New York, where more than 150,000 Steinway pianos had been built.

Highlights

• Spent five years at the bench in the Steinway piano factories to master the craft
• Became assistant to Henry Ziegler, preparing to follow his uncle Theodore Steinway and cousin Henry Ziegler
• Nephew of Theodore Steinway and cousin of Henry Ziegler
• Chose his home in apartments built on the site of the old Steinway factories on Park Avenue upon marrying

Source

Alfred Dolge, Pianos and Their Makers, Vol. II (1913), pp. 186, 187.

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