Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer

When Friedrich Silcher moved to Stuttgart for a two-year sojourn, he lived in the house of the piano maker.

In 1821, master builder Nikolaus Friedrich von Thouret erected a new plant on 14-16 Neckarstrasse, today the site of the House of History and the State High School for Music and Representative Arts.

After the death of Carl Friedrich Dieudonné in 1825, Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer continued to operate the plant by himself.

He also sent his two younger sons, Julius and Paul, to Paris, where they learned the trade of harmonium manufacture from Alexandre-François Debain.

Regula Rapp, current principal of Stuttgart’s Music High School, wrote about the importance of Johann Lorenz Schiedmayer in her book Musikstädte der Welt (Music Cities of the World): “Future historians will count Schiedmayer as one of the ‘fathers of Württemberg’s industry’”.