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Frederick Hintz (1809-90), who came to the Kingdom of Poland from Prussia, was one of the leading representatives of the musical industry in Kalisz before the arrival in that town of the Fibiger family, whose pianos and pianofortes, produced from 1878, quickly came to dominate the local market. He was the second piano builder from Kalisz after Georg Lindemann (c. 1792-1849) whose instuments have survived...
Literature devoted to Szymanowski gives little space to the relationship between the composer and his publishers. This article, based on published correspondence and papers held at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, presents minor episodes relating to the contacts between Szymanowski and Röder's printing firm in Leipzig and Stahl's music store in Berlin. These firms played a significant part during the...
Polish historiography of Silesia devotes relatively little space to the German contribution to the development of this region. This concerns also the manufacture of musical instruments, including pianofortes and pianos. The main centre of such manufacture was Wroclaw, although from mid-nineteenth century it was overtaken by Legnica. Polish musicians, as well as German ones, gave concerts using instruments...
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