Johann Andreas Streicher (13 December 1761 in

Stuttgart Stuttgart (; Swabian: ; ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is located on the Neckar river in a fertile valley known as the ''Stuttgarter Kessel'' (Stuttgart Cauldron) and lies an hour from the ...

– 25 May 1833 in

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) was a German pianist, composer and piano maker. In 1793 he married

Nannette Streicher Nannette Streicher (née Anna-Maria Stein; 2 January 1769, Augsburg – 16 January 1833, Vienna) was a German piano maker, composer, music educator, writer and a close friend of Ludwig van Beethoven. Life Nannette Streicher was the sixth child ...

(1769–1833), another piano maker and the daughter of

Augsburg Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ' ...

piano maker

Johann Andreas Stein Johann (Georg) Andreas Stein (16 May 1728 in Heidelsheim – 29 February 1792 in Augsburg) was an outstanding German maker of keyboard instruments, a central figure in the history of the piano. He was primarily responsible for the design of the ...

. In 1794 they moved to Vienna. From that time Streicher worked as a piano teacher and became increasingly known for his compositions. The Streicher piano-making business provided at least one

fortepiano A fortepiano , sometimes referred to as a pianoforte, is an early piano. In principle, the word "fortepiano" can designate any piano dating from the invention of the instrument by Bartolomeo Cristofori in 1698 up to the early 19th century. Mo ...

Beethoven Ludwig van Beethoven (baptised 17 December 177026 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. Beethoven remains one of the most admired composers in the history of Western music; his works rank amongst the most performed of the classical ...

in his early years, of which the composer was fond, writing that it was "too good for me ... because it robs me of the freedom to produce my own tone".Lockwood p 289

Works

* (S. ohann Andreas Streicher: ''Schiller’s Flucht von Stuttgart und Aufenthalt in Mannheim von 1782 bis 1785. Stuttgart und Augsburg, Verlag der J'' hann ''G'' org ''Cotta’schen Buchhandlung'' nhaber: Georg von Cotta', 1836.'' ncomplete text of the biography without the final chapters. * (Johann)''Andreas Streichers Schiller-Biographie''. Hrsg. von Herbert Kraft. (Mannheim, Wien, Zürich 1974) (''Forschungen zur Geschichte Mannheims und der Pfalz'', hrsg. von der Gesellschaft der Freunde Mannheims und der ehemaligen Kurpfalz. Mannheimer Altertumsverein von 1859, Neue Folge, 5). irst complete edition with a commentary based on the manuscripts.*''Zehn Choral-Vorspiele für Orgel (mit cantus firmus)'', op. 4

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References

Lewis Lockwood Lewis H. Lockwood (born December 16, 1930) is an American musicologist whose main fields are the music of the Italian Renaissance and the life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven. Joseph Kerman described him as "a leading musical scholar of the postw ...

. ''Beethoven: The Music and the Life''. W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. . * Herbert Meyer: ''Schillers Flucht von Stuttgart und Aufenthalt in Mannheim von 1782 bis 1785. In Selbstzeugnissen, zeitgenössischen Berichten und Bildern dargestellt''. Mannheim 1959 ( oseph''Meyers Bild-Bändchen'', N. F., 16/17). * Dietrich Germann: ''Andreas Streicher und sein Schiller-Buch. Über den Nachlaß von Schillers Freund und Fluchtgefährten''. In: ''Weimarer Beiträge'' 14 (1968), pp. 1051–1059. * Kyoji Shimamura: ap.(Streichers Schiller-Studien.) In: ''Waseda Dai-gaku seiji kaizaigakubu''. (''Kyoyo sho-gaku kenkyu''), Heft 51 (1976), pp. 15–29. * ''SchillerZeit in Mannheim''. (''Zur Ausstellung SchillerZeit in Mannnheim, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim D 5, 17. September 2005 bis 29. Januar 2006''. Inhaltliche Konzeption: Liselotte Homering, Stephanie Käthow. Redaktion: Luisa Reiblich, Liselotte Homering.) Hrsg. von Alfried Wieczorek und Liselotte Homering. Mainz am Rhein : von Zabern (2005) (''Publikationen der Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen'', Bd. 16), here pp. (43)–48 Uta Goebl-Streicher: „… den Sprung der Freiheit mit ihm zu wagen“: Andreas Streicher und Schiller; pp. (65)–73 Peter Ruf: Schiller in Oggersheim. * Peter Ruf: ''Schiller in Oggersheim. Katalog zur Ausstellung im Schillerhaus Oggersheim''. Ludwigshafen: Stadtmuseum Ludwigshafen 2005. – 23 pp., ill. * Christoph Öhm-Kühnle: ''„Er weiß jeden Ton singen zu lassen“. Der Musiker und Klavierbauer Johann Andreas Streicher (1761–1833) – kompositorisches Schaffen und kulturelles Wirken im biografischen Kontext. Quellen – Funktion – Analyse''. (München : Strube Verlag GmbH 2011) (''Quellen und Studien zur Musik in Baden-Württemberg'', hrsg. von der Gesellschaft für Musikgeschichte in Baden-Württemberg e. V., Bd. 9; ''Strube Edition'', 9144). Teilweise zugleich Phil. Diss. Tübingen 2008. – 279 pp., 26 ill. - . * Reinhard Breymayer, ''Astronomie, Kalenderstreit und Liebestheologie. Von Erhard Weigel und seinem Schüler Detlev Clüver über Friedrich Christoph Oetinger und Philipp Matthäus Hahn zu Friedrich Schiller, Johann Andreas Streicher, Franz Joseph Graf von Thun und Hohenstein, Mozart und Beethoven''. Dußlingen : Nous-Verlag Thomas Leon Heck, 2016. - . Cf. pp. 3 sq. 6 sq. 10. 111. 132-169. 204-208. 211-214. 216. 217. 220-222. 225. 227; especially pp. 133-137: "Allgemeine Forschungsliteratur zu Johann Andreas Streicher" (many titles!); pp. 137: "Spezielle Forschungsliteratur zu Johann Andreas Streicher als Fluchthelfer Schillers". German composers German musical instrument makers Piano makers Austrian people of German descent Musicians from Stuttgart 1761 births 1833 deaths {{Germany-composer-stub