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Steinway & Sons, also known as Steinway (/ ˈstaɪnweɪ / ⓘ), is a German-American piano company, founded in 1853 in New York City by German piano builder Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (later known as Henry E. Steinway). [2][11] The company's growth led to a move to a larger factory in New York, and later opening an additional factory in ...
In 1866, C.F. Theodore Steinway began a cooperative venture with the Mangeot brothers in Nancy, France, who for several years in the late 1860s imported harps and soundboards from Steinway & Sons in New York City, which they installed in their own piano cabinets and sold under the brand name "Mangeot-Steinway", mostly in France and England.
He was president of the company from 1955 to 1977. [1] He was the first president of NAMM Museum of Making Music. [2] The 2007 National Medal of Arts was awarded to Henry Z. Steinway and presented by US President George W. Bush on 15 November 2007 in an East Room ceremony at the White House. Henry Z. Steinway received the award for "his ...
Sound of Harmony is one of the world's most expensive grand piano, a Steinway & Sons art case piano built by Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany, in 2008 for € 1.2 million. [1] At the time it was the world's most expensive initial purchasing price for a piano, however it has since been overtaken by at least two other Steinway grand pianos ...
5 January 1931 (age 93) Wiesenberg, Czechoslovakia. Alma mater. Graz Conservatory. Occupations. pianist. composer. writer. Alfred Brendel (born 5 January 1931) is a Czech-born Austrian classical pianist, poet, author, composer, and lecturer who is noted for his performances of Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven.
November 14, 2023 at 12:30 PM. Left, one of the new Steinway models designed by Noe Duchaufour-Lawrance (right) (Steinway & Sons / Richard Wright) Piano manufacturer Steinway & Sons has unveiled a ...
D-274 that exemplifies the products of Steinway's factory in Hamburg, Germany. D-274 (or D) is the model name of a concert grand piano, the flagship of the Steinway & Sons piano company, [1] first built in 1884. [2] [3] It is generally described as the first choice of most concert pianists. [1]
Steinway Vertegrand. The Model K or " Vertegrand " is an upright piano introduced in 1903 by Steinway & Sons. It is the oldest essentially unchanged upright piano design currently in mass production. Although production was interrupted from about 1939 until its reappearance in 1982, the structural design has remained essentially the same for ...