Franz Rausch

[6] At the first General German Industrial Exhibition in Munich in 1854, Franz Rausch & Sohn also exhibited "grand piano fortepianos of various constructions" and awarded a medal of honour ("for the production of an excellently executed grand piano-shaped piano of the same good tone").

[7] Twelve children are documented from his marriage to Katharina Wallner (1808–1883[8]) which took place on 20 November 1825 in Schottenfeld near Vienna.

The first-born son Franz Georg Rausch Jr. (born 1827) also became a piano maker, patented two improvements for piano construction in 1854, but had to file for bankruptcy in 1865; son Conrad Georg Rausch (born 1833) was an authorized signatory of the Wiener Bankgesellschaft.

From 1827 onwards, Rausch's homes and workplaces in the then Viennese suburb of Wieden around Wiedner Hauptstraße are documented.

For example, to the music teacher and piano dealer Friedrich Wieck (Clara Schumann's father), in Leipzig and Halle, as well as to the Milanese dealer Joseph Prestinari in today's Italy and Slovenia in the Trieste, Milan and Ljubljana area.

Franz Rausch around 1850, painting by Carl Haunold
Business card from Franz Rausch, Italian version, 1847–1851
Square piano by Franz Rausch in the Reuter-Wagner Museum in Eisenach, Germany