Johann Andreas Streicher
Johann Andreas Streicher ( born December 13, 1761 Stuttgart, † May 25, 1833 in Vienna ) was a German -Austrian pianist, composer and piano builder.
Biography
Andreas Streicher, the son of a master mason who died grew, since 1771 on the Stuttgart orphanage.
From higher education excluded, he found his way through the music. His musical talent brought him into contact with court musicians and music pupils of the High School Karl. There also studied Friedrich Schiller, with which strings befriended. Together they visited in 1782 secretly the premiere of the robbers in Mannheim, for which Schiller had to pay for it with 14 days' imprisonment. That same year, the two fled from Stuttgart to Mannheim. About this escape strings wrote a widely read book later. Actually, he wanted to travel to Hamburg to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and take lessons there. But his savings for he had generously lent to Friedrich Schiller, which he thereby helped from existential distress. Thus strings had to stay in Mannheim. There lived strings of piano lessons and gave concerts. 1786, he moved to Munich, where he was known as a piano teacher and, increasingly, as composer.
In 1793 he married Nannette Streicher ( 1769-1833 ), daughter of the Augsburg piano maker Johann Andreas Stein. 1794 the couple went to Vienna, where Nannette and her brother Matthew Andreas Stein opened the piano factory " Frère et Sœur stone ". After the division of the company in 1802 Streicher acquired the necessary technical skills and increased self as a piano maker in the business to his wife one. He and Nannette were important confidante of Ludwig van Beethoven in his last years of life.
Streicher was a good piano player: the "Mannheim newspaper" reported on a concert in Heidelberg on December 4, 1785: " Strings struck a piano concerto by Haydn and before the final a piano sonata by Clementi. His game full expression and spirit, be more specific, highly finished presentation garnered the admiration and the deserved applause of all connoisseurs. " Strings, whose own concert hall was opened in April 1812 initiated the performance of Georg Friedrich Handel's Alexander's Feast, which then of establishing society of Friends of Music in Vienna led and held in the Winter Riding School. He took over doing the rehearsals of the choirs and at the performance of the continuo part. The couple strings thus became one of the founders of the Friends of Music Society.
As a piano maker in Vienna he was one of the most important and innovative representative of his profession. From 1802 his wife Nannette headed the company " Nannette Streicher née Stein". Together with her son Johann Baptist Streicher (1796-1871), she provided the operating worldwide recognition. Many well-known composers and nobles lost their piano strings build or attended the Sunday matinee.
" Andreas Streicher published several works for piano and a piano school, was involved in a first complete edition of Beethoven's works, especially for the creation of a singing school and the publication of a hymnbook with Protestant Church Music in Vienna. "
The so-called " Old Streicherhof " stood in the Ungargasse No. 46 in Vienna's 3rd district, the " New Streicherhof " later in the Hungarian lane No 27 Both buildings were damaged in the Second World War and the " Old Streicherhof " in 1959 demolished.
Streicher was buried on St. Marx cemetery in Vienna and later in a grave of honor in Vienna's Central Cemetery (Group 32 A, number 30) transferred. After his son Johann Baptist Streicher strings alley is named in the highway.
Works
- Andreas Streicher: Schiller 's flight from Stuttgart and stay in Mannheim 1782-1785 Stuttgart and Augsburg, publisher of JB Metzler'schen bookstore.. , 1836.
- Ten Chorale Preludes for Organ ( with cantus firmus ), op 4