[1] Composers who used Blüthner include Brahms, Debussy, Wagner, Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, and the Beatles among others.

The owners in 1917 (Adolf Max Blüthner, Dr. Paul Robert and Willy Bruno Heinrich) were awarded an imperial and royal warrant of appointment to the court of Austria-Hungary.

[5] In 1972, the company was nationalized by the East German government, with Ingbert Blüthner-Haessler remaining as managing director.

[5] With the Fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and German reunification in 1990, the Blüthner family regained control of the company.

Professional Edition pianos use structural and acoustical elements from the Samick factory in Indonesia and cabinets from Poland and then are assembled in Germany.

They include Willhelm II, Emperor Franz Joseph I, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Liberace, Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy, George Formby, Dodie Smith, Max Reger, Richard Wagner, Johann Strauss, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Dmitri Shostakovich, Petronel Malan.

A Blüthner piano also appears in the 2004 Cole Porter biopic De-Lovely in the Venice apartment scenes.