Fryderyk Buchholtz

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Fryderyk Buchholtz
Born16 May 1792
Died15 May 1837(1837-05-15) (aged 44)
OccupationPiano maker

Fryderyk Buchholtz – piano maker, organ maker, guild master, guild elder (1825-1826), born on May 16, 1792 Olsztynek (Hohenstein, Prussia), died on May 15, 1837 in Warsaw.[1][2]

Life

Fortepiano Fryderyk Buchholtz, 1835

The son of Andrzej and Ewa Pohl, who settled in Warsaw; Fryderyk Buchholtz was an apprentice carpenter when he set out on a journey from Warsaw. In 1815, after he finished studying piano making in Vienna, he returned to his home city and founded a piano factory at 1352 Mazowiecka street, and by 1825, he was able to buy the property he had been renting for the factory. From 1817 to 1819, together with W. Bauer and W. Jansen, he petitioned the government to establish the Assembly of Organ Masters.

In the beginning, he made

Janissary registers that quickly gained recognition. He exhibited these instruments at the exhibitions in Warsaw in both 1823 and 1825, and he won multiple medals including a silver medal. Also in 1825, he exhibited the melodicordion, which he built together with F. Brunner, and received praise for the performance.[3]
In the 1830s, together with his son Julian, he custom-built a piano with a silencer lift that was divided into a lower and upper register.

His instruments gained recognition among musicians as some of the best. A frequent guest of the home art salon and a factory store was

Evangelical-Augsburg cemetery in Warsaw. After his death, the factory was run by his wife (with the help of J. S. Luboradzki), and from 1841 to 1846 by his son Julian. The Buchholtz company went into bankruptcy about 1864.[6]

Only a few instruments of the Buchholtz brand have survived until today: at the

the first International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments.[9]

Recordings made with originals and replicas of Buchholtz's pianos

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0
    . Retrieved 2021-06-14.
  2. ^ "Fryderyk Buchholtz piano price list and models". buchholtz.klaviano.info. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
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    ISBN 978-0195130737
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  4. ISBN 978-0857128478
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  5. ^ "Albo. Aktualnosći Lokalne Buletyn Olcztynecki" (PDF). Szukanie patrona.
  6. ^ Novak Clinkscale, Martha (1993). Makers of the Piano. Volume 2: 1820-1860. UK: Oxford University Press. p. 64.
  7. ^ "Piano makers | The Piano in Polish Collections". www.piano.instruments.edu.pl. Retrieved 2021-06-14.
  8. ^ "Exploring the sound world of Chopin on period pianos". bachtrack.com. Retrieved 2021-06-24.
  9. ^ "Chopin's Pianos". Teatr Wielki Opera Narodowa. Retrieved 2021-06-24.

Bibliography

  • B. Vogel "Historia muzyki polskiej" tom X "Fortepian polski"

External links

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