Carl Dieudonné (30 November 1783 – 10 April 1825) was a co-founder of Dieudonné & Schiedmayer, a firm in Stuttgart that built pianos. He founded the firm together with Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer, and the Schiedmayer firm continued to build pianos well into the 20th century.
Carl Dieudonné | |
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| Born | November 30, 1783 |
| Died | April 10, 1825 (aged 41) |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | Piano maker |
Dieudonné was born in Stuttgart, as the son of a principal court ballet dancer, and trained in Vienna with the piano builder Nannette Streicher. In Vienna, he is also assumed to have met Schiedmayer, whose cousin he later married.[1] They founded the firm in 1806, and eventually became court suppliers ("Hoflieferant").[1] In 1824, shortly before his death, Schiedmayer and Dieudonné published a brief manual "on the proper use and knowledge concerning the playing, tuning, and maintenance of fortepianos, especially those made in the workshop of Dieudonné and Schiedmayer in Stuttgart".[2] This book was reproduced in 1994 by the Gulde Verlag in Germany.[3] Pianos built by Dieudonné and Schiedmayer are believed to be in museums in Stuttgart, Tübingen, Donaueschingen, Basel, Munich, Liège and other locations.[2]
References
edit- ^ a b Gutbrod, Karl (2005). Chronik Gutbrod. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer Verlag. p. 108.
- ^ a b De Silva, Preethi (2008). The Fortepiano Writings of Streicher, Dieudonné, and the Schiedmayers. Edwin Mellen press.
- ^ Schiedmayer; Dieudonné. "Kurze Anleitung zu einer richtigen Kenntniß und Behandlung der Forte-Pianos in Beziehung auf das Spielen, Stimmen und Erhalten derselben, besonders derer, welche in der Werkstätte von Dieudonné und Schiedmayer in Stuttgart verfertigt werden". Wikisource. Retrieved 25 November 2018.