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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Clients of Johann Andreas Stein Recorded in the Notebook of Johann David Schiedmayer and Elsewhere
Contributor:
LATCHAM, MICHAEL
imprint:
The Galpin Society, 2013
Published in:The Galpin Society Journal
Language:
English
ISSN:
0072-0127
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>Johann David Schiedmayer (1753-1805), famous in his lifetime as a builder of Hammerflügel, was a journeyman with Johann Andreas Stein (1728-1792), illustrious organ and stringed keyboard instrument maker in Augsburg. Schiedmayer was with Stein from July 1778 to April 1781. Schiedmayer kept a notebook in which he noted his earnings as a journeyman in Stein's workshop and from extramural work he undertook for some 40 of Stein's clients. One organ, a number of harpsichords and almost certainly clavichords and pianos were involved. The clients included the Prince Bishop of Augsburg, two members of the Fugger family, numerous top merchant bankers and cotton manufacturers, all interlinked by marriage, two school teachers and a doctor, two artists, a cooper and a bed maker. Supplementing the names of these clients with some of those mentioned in Stein's own notebook gives a remarkably full impression of the clients who had Stein's instruments. This picture is enriched with descriptions of the clients, of Stein's days as a journeyman before he settled in Augsburg and of the context in which he made his instruments. Details of some of Schiedmayer's clients when he worked independently in Erlangen and later in Nuremberg are interspersed at suitable moments to offer ancillary information.</p>