Jean-Henri Naderman

Jean-Henri Naderman (baptised 20 July 1734 – 4 February 1799) was one of the leading harp-makers in Paris in the 18th century, and also a music publisher.

He supplied the Royal Household with his instruments and wrote his music in classical style, with a large influence of the baroque.

Jean-Henri Naderman was baptised (and presumably born) in Lichtenau in the archdiocese of Paderborn,[1] but emigrated to France around 1756 where he began working as a harp manufacturer.

[2] He rose to fame when he was commissioned to create and perfect the harps of Queen Marie-Antoinette on her arrival in France, together with the Czech composer and harpist Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz.

The Naderman single-pedal harp is supposed to have been modelled after the successful eighteenth-century Bavarian single-action mechanism pedal harp, whose manufacture, although claimed by several other harp makers including Jean Paul Vetter of Nuremberg and Johann Hausen of Weimar,[3] is often attributed to Jacob Hochbrucker.