Everything about Henry Engelhard Steinway totally explained
Henry E. Steinway (
February 17,
1797 –
February 7,
1871) was a
German American piano manufacturer and the founder of
Steinway & Sons.
Steinway was born
Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg in
Wolfshagen im Harz,
Germany, and had a hard and poor childhood, because by the age of 15, his mother, father, and all of his siblings were dead from disease and tragedy. At the age of 15 he began work as a carpenter, and later he became an apprentice to an
organ builder in the town of
Goslar. He became an organ player in the church, but because of the strong rules in the working class he started building instruments, hidden in the kitchen of his house. In 1835 he made the first square piano, which he presented to his bride Juliane at their wedding. In 1836 he build his first grand piano in his kitchen in the town of
Seesen. This piano was later named the "kitchen piano", and is now on display at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art with a Steinweg 1836 square piano.
Because of the unstable political climate in Germany, Steinweg decided to leave the country. He emigrated from
Braunschweig, Germany, to
New York City in
1851 with four of his sons, but before leaving he gave the company to his son, Theodor Steinweg. Once in New York, he anglicized his name to Henry E. Steinway, and he and his sons worked for other piano companies until they could establish their own production under the name of
Steinway & Sons in 1853. The business expanded with the inventions they made. The overstrung scale in a square piano earned the Steinway Piano first prize at the New York Industrial Fair of 1855.
Steinway died in New York City at the age of 74 on February 7, 1871.
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