Nannette Streicher

The musicologist Johann Friedrich Reichardt visited the Stein family in 1789, and after hearing Nannette play piano, commented that.

The concerts she organised were an important contribution to Viennese musical life, first in her apartment, then from 1812 in a piano salon she organized next-door to the Streicher showrooms.

The friends and customers of the couple included Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Nannette sometimes played in private before the friends and visitors of the music circle, sometimes together with her daughter Sophie (1797–1840), an equally gifted piano player.

Her circle included many great musicians of Vienna, and her friendship with Beethoven was such that for eighteen months beginning in 1817 she assumed considerable responsibility for his domestic arrangements.

[1] This is documented in more than sixty letters,[5] in which the composer sought advice and assistance in household and educational questions, after he was granted custody of his nephew Karl.