Johann Baptist Streicher

Nannette Streicher, his mother, assumed charge of her father's business in 1792 and set up a piano making company in Vienna.

[1] Johann Baptist Streicher learned the piano making craft from his parents and became a partner in the business in 1823.

He was buried in his father's grave of honor (German: Ehrengrab) in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32A, number 30).

The first modern copy was built in 2014 after J.Streicher 1868 piano[4] that Johannes Brahms received as a gift in 1870 and kept in his house until death.

[5] Johann Baptist Streicher was first married to Auguste (born André), who died on July 1, 1847, at the age of 45.