Piano factory "Mühlbach" - a company engaged in the production of pianos and concert pianos in the capital of the Russian Empire, St. Petersburg . The plant, like the company itself, existed between 1850 and 1917 (before the Russian revolution). In the 1880s, Mühlbach was the leader in sales of pianos on the Russian market.
Company History
In 1856, the Baltic artisan of German origin, Theodor Franz Adolf Mühlbach ( 1826 - 1901 , St. Petersburg ) moved to St. Petersburg . He made three simple pianos in his workshop on Officer Street. Theodor Mühlbach worked in the sales office of an Austrian piano factory that was located in Wirth . The owner of this factory was Jacob Becker . When he had saved enough money in his time, he built a whole corporation under his own name, ordering all the necessary materials from abroad, and then all the necessary devices. The first instruments made by Theodore were very similar to those of his master Jacob Becker. Soon he hired three workers and a manufacturing enterprise gradually, but at high rates it developed and expanded. Until the 1870s, his piano did not have fame, and he received it only at the All-Russian Fair in St. Petersburg, where he presented his musical instruments to a wide audience [1] .
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Literature
- Robert Palmieri: The Piano. An Encyclopedia (Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments) New York 2003. ISBN 978-0-415-93796-2
- Google Books. In: Friedrich Matthäi: Die Industrie Russlands in ihrer bisherigen Entwicklung ... Industrielles Handbuch für das Gesammtgebiet des russischen Reiches, Band 1-2, Verlag Griesbach. Gera 1872. S. 135
- CO Cech: Russlands Industrie auf der Nationalen Ausstellung in Moskau 1882: Kritische Betrachtungen über die wichtigsten Industriezweige Russlands. Grossmann & Knöbel, 1885 - Seite 314
- Denis Lomtev: Deutsche in der musikalischen Infrastrukt Russlands. Lage (Westf.): BMV, 2012. S. 17, 109-111. ISBN 978-3-935000-83-3 .