Nannette Streicher
Anna Maria called Nannette Streicher, nee Stein ( born January 2, 1769 in Augsburg, † January 16, 1833 in Vienna) was a German - Austrian Klavierbauerin, composer, music educator and writer.
Life
Nannette was the sixth child of the organ and piano maker Johann Andreas Stein in Augsburg (1728-1792) and his wife Magdalena Euphrosina born Great ( 1742-1800 ). Early on, she took piano lessons from her father, who stood entirely under the influence of his friend Ignaz von Beecke. In Augsburg Nannette Stone appeared as a pianist again in concerts, sometimes with her friend Nanette of damage. 1787 she sang in a concert " some minor arias ". The singing she had to give up later for health reasons. The father had already taught very early in piano, so she was able to continue independently the workshop after his death on 29 February 1792.
In 1794 she married the musician Johann Andreas Streicher ( 1761-1833 ) and moved in the same year to Vienna with him. Here she led his father's business, first together with her younger brother Matthew Andreas Stein (1776-1842), (born Nannette Streicher stone) since 1802 under his own name. With the support of her husband - and since 1824/25 with her son Johann Baptist ( 1796-1871 ) as a partner - she succeeded in expanding the business into one of the most important piano construction companies in the residence.
Johann Baptist Streicher in 1833 the sole owner of the factory, the number of patents developed under his leadership and achieved world fame. Johann Baptist son Emil sold the company in 1896 at the Gebrüder Stingl. Among the friends and customers of the couple strings counted among other things Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
However, Nannette Streicher and Andreas were not only piano maker. An important contribution to the musical life of Vienna formed the concerts, which they initially then held in her apartment from 1812 in its approximately 300 listeners comprehensive piano salon and young artists offered welcome opportunities to perform.
Nannette Streicher himself liked to play in a private circle in front of music lovers and visitors, sometimes with her daughter Sophie (1797-1840), an equally talented pianist. She was in contact with many great musicians of Vienna; her friendship with Beethoven is documented in over sixty small note in which he asked for advice and help in household and educational issues, after he had received the guardianship of his nephew Karl. Entries in the conversation books of composers show how close was the contact between Beethoven and the string family.
The couple Streicher was one of the founders of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna.
Nanette Streicher died on 16 January 1833. She was buried according Ladies Conversations Lexicon on the St. Marx Cemetery. After its closure it was reburied with her husband Johann Andreas Streicher in a grave of honor in Vienna's Central Cemetery. After her son Johann Baptist Streicher strings alley is named in the highway.
Works
- Deux Marches pour le pianoforte. Composées par Madame Nannette Streicher née Stein. Prix 75 Cs. Bonn Cologne et chez N. Simrock. Propriété de l' Editeur 1378th [ 1827. ]
- Complaint about the early death of the maid Ursula Sabina Stage For voice and piano ( C minor ), Augsburg, 1788.