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Anna Maria called 'Nannette Streicher, née Stein (* January 2 1769 in Augsburg † January 16 1833 in Vienna) was a German piano builder, composer, music teacher and writer.
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Nannette was the sixth child of the organ and piano maker Johann Andreas Stein in Augsburg (1728-1792) and his wife Magdalena born Euphrosina Large (1742-1800). Early on, she received piano lessons from her father, who is being completely under the influence of his friend Ignaz von Beeck stood. In Augsburg Nannette Stein joined again as a pianist in concerts, sometimes together with her friend Nanette of damage. 1787 she sang in a concert "some minor arias." The singing had to it later for health reasons. The father had a very early stage in the piano-trained, so that she was in a position, the workshop after his death on February 29, 1792 to continue independently.
In 1794 she married the musician Johann Andreas Streicher (1761-1833) and moved in the same year with him to Vienna. This led her father's business, initially with her younger brother Matthäus Andreas Stein (1776-1842), since 1802 under his own name (Nannette Streicher née Stone) continues. With the support of her husband - and, since 1824/25 with their son, Johann Baptist (1796-1871) as a partner - but it did, the operation became one of the most important piano builders residence expand.
Johann Baptist Streicher 1833 was sole owner of the factory, which under his leadership, numerous patents, developed and gained world renown. Johann Baptiste son Emil, the company sold 1896 the brothers Stingl. Among the friends and customers of the couple strings included among other things, Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Nannette Streicher and Andrew were not only piano manufacturers. An important contribution to the Viennese musical life also formed the concerts, the first in her apartment, then from 1812 in its approximately 300 listeners making piano salon organized and young artists welcome performance opportunities offered.
Nannette Streicher like himself played in private before the music circle friends and visitors, sometimes together with her daughter Sophie (1797-1840), an equally gifted piano player. She stood in conjunction with many great musicians of Vienna, and their friendship with Beethoven is more than sixty small letter documented, in which they seek advice and assistance in household and educational questions asked, after his guardianship of his nephew Karl had received. Entries in the conversation, the composer's specifications indicate how close the contact between the Beethoven and the family was strings.
Nanette Streicher died on 16 January 1833 after two months of suffering. At the same cemetery, where Mozart's ashes rests, it is also a memorial stone designated grave.