Johann Baptist Streicher

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

Johann Baptist Streicher (lithograph by Adolf Dauthage, 1862)

Streicher learned the craft from his parents, Nannette and Andreas Streicher, who ran a successful piano-making business. He became a partner in the business in 1823 and, after the death of his parents, was the sole owner of the company. Among his pupils was the German piano maker Johann Bernhard Klems. Streicher's son Emil sold the family business in 1896 to the brothers Stingl because grandson Theodor had aspirations as a composer and no interest in continuing the franchise.

Paul McNulty made a copy of a Streicher piano from 1868.[1]

References
  1. "AAA–a4 after Streicher op. 6747, 1868", fortepiano.eu
  • Felix Czeike. Historisches Lexikon Wien. Volume 5. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-218-00547-0, p. 378
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