Johann Baptist Streicher

Johann Baptist Streicher (3 January 1796 in Vienna – 28 March 1871 in Vienna) was an Austrian piano builder.

Streicher learned the piano making craft from his parents, Nannette Streicher and Johann Andreas Streicher who were well-known German-Austrian piano makers. He became a partner in the family business in 1823. Composer Johannes Brahms owned one of the Streicher's pianos and was very fond of it."Ich habe einen schönen Flügel von Streicher. Er hat mir eben neue Erningenschaften dadurch inittheilen wollen(...)" August, 1887. Litzmann, Clara Schumann, ein Kunstlerleben, vol. 3, 493-94  He expressed his admiration in a letter to a German pianist Clara Schumann: "There [on my Streicher] I always know exactly what I write and why I write one way or another”.August, 1887. Litzmann, Berthold, 1906. Clara Schumann, ein Künstlerleben. Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, vol 3, pp.493–94.  In 1896 Streicher's son, Emil, sold the family business to the brothers Stingl. Since the end of the XX century the interest in period instruments have been growing, and contemporary piano makers started creating replicas of Streicher's pianos.

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 Other websites 

 Streicher, Familie (in German)
 Clavier Salon Göttingen, Flügel von Johann Baptist Streicher, Wien (in German)
 Johann Baptist Streicher und Sohn Grand Piano (Vienna, 1863), Andrzej Szwalbe Collection, Ostromecko Palace near Bydgoszcz, Poland

Category:1796 births
Category:1871 deaths
Category:Piano makers
Category:People from Vienna