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		Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg was born on February 25, 1797 in the village of Wolfshagen, located in the Harz mountains of Germany.
		The company continued to grow and develop well beyond Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg’s death in 1871 of ascites, a type of liver failure.
		Despite the lack of information that has been passed down to us about the specifics of Heinrich Steinweg’s life, the legacy of a man with a passion for excellent pianos is one that lives on.
	www.andrews.edu /INLS/german/german-american/notable/S/steinway/heinrich-e.html (577 words)

	Engelhard Silver Bars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Mount Engelhard is a mountain located in the Sunwapta River valley of Jasper National Park.
		Engelhard lies three km NNE of the east summit of Stutfield Peak.
		Jane Engelhard (Qingdao, China, 1917 - Nantucket, Massachusetts, February 29, 2004) was an American philanthropist of Brazilian, German, and Irish ancestry known for her marriage to billionaire industrialist Charles W. Engelhard, Jr.
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	From a Recent History of Steinway & Sons - A Fine Way: How it all Began
		One summer Heinrich, his father, and his half brothers were out in the woods, far from home, when a storm suddenly arose, accompanied by ferocious winds and lightning--typical Harz Mountains weather.
		Heinrich was knocked out by the blast, and when he came to, he found the dead bodies of his father and two brothers lying strewn around the shack.
		Heinrich stayed in the military until he was 21, which meant that he was too old to embark on the traditional woodworking apprenticeship of five years.
	www1.cuny.edu /events/cunymatters/spring96_html/article14.html (952 words)

	The History of Steinway Pianos
		Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg a piano maker from Seesen near Brunswick, Germany since 1825 sent his son Carl to America to explore the business possibilities there in 1849.
		On June 29th, 1850, Heinrich and his wife, accompanied by three daughters and three of his five sons joined Carl for a new life in a new land.
		Heinrich, a respected piano maker was 53 when he left his homeland and his imaginative sons encouraged him to take this brave move despite the prosperity enjoyed so far, New York City it appeared offered more...
	www.shackellpianos.co.uk /steinway-history.htm (733 words)

	Everything about Henry Engelhard Steinway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (February 17, 1797 - 1871), piano manufacturer, also Heinrich Engelhardt Steinweg and Henry E. Steinway.
		Steinweg, Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, Heinrich Engelhard Steinway, Henry E. Steinway, Henry E. February 17
		The firm was founded in 1839 in Seesen, Germany, by Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, who emigrated to America in 1851 and anglicised his name to Henry E. Steinway.
	myt.sv.wikimiki.org /en/Henry+Engelhard+Steinway (3053 words)

	STEINWAY AND DAIMLER-BENZ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The founder of the Steinway dynasty, Heinrich* Engelhard Steinweg was born in 1797 in Wolfshagen, Braunschweig.
		One of the sons, Henry, had actively participated in the revolution and emigrated in 1849.
		Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg followed with his family in 1850.
	www.serve.com /shea/germusa/steinway.htm (467 words)

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		In 1821, Erard invented the double-escapement piano action, which served as the prototype for the modern piano action perfected by Theodor Steinweg, for the Grotrian Steinweg and the Steinway and Sons pianos.
		Following the 1848 revolution in Germany, Heinrich and most of the family emigrated to the USA in 1850 and founded Steinway in New York in 1853.
		The family name Grotrian Steinweg was adopted by Wilhelm's sons Willi and Kurt in 1919 (hyphenated from 1926) and the company remains under the auspices of the family at Braunschweig where it still makes about 1,000 pianos per year in enlarged premises.
	ottleymusic.org /hist_instru (1714 words)

	[Attache Archive] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, born in Lower Saxony in 1797, was a first-class survivor.
		Before turning 20, he had toughed out a brutal winter (that took the lives of his mother and several siblings), avoided a vicious lightning strike (that killed his father and three brothers), and kept his head down at the Battle of Waterloo (where he served as a bugler).
		In Manhattan, a center of piano manufacturing, Heinrich Steinweg Americanized his name to Henry E. Steinway, and took a job making piano soundboards for $6 per week.
	www.attachemag.com /archives/11-03/brief/brief.htm (1096 words)

	Steinway stuyvesant piano UK Piano Page
		Steinways, changed their name from Steinweg to Steinweg The name Steinweg was changed to Steinway in 1863 when the firms was founded in New York.
		In 1836 Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, 1796-1871, by this time was making pianos in his kitchen at Seesen in Germany.
		Heinrich was a bugler at the battle of Waterloo and won a medal for playing the bugle in the face of the enemy.
	www.uk-piano.org /piano-forums/piano545.html (878 words)

	Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		[Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg bio and facts from encyclopedia]
		Henrich Engelhard Steinweg (February 17, 1797 - 1871), piano A stringed instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds
		Steinweg emigrated from Brunswick A town in southeast Georgia near the Atlantic coast; a port of entry
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /h/heinrich_engelhard_steinweg (154 words)

	Epochtimes English Edition-
		The original Henry was born Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, a German who was a boy bugler at the Battle of Waterloo.
		The first piano he ever built in 1836, dubbed the "kitchen piano" because it was made in the Steinway kitchen, is on exhibit at Steinway's New York factory.
		Steinweg emigrated to New York in 1850 and anglicized his name to Steinway.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/3-9-8/4564.html (1034 words)

	Germans helped build America - and how has America repaid them? Parts 5, 6 and 7. Heinrich Piebrock.
		The watchmaker and optician Heinrich Göbel, an immigrant from Springe on the Deister Mountain, invented the lightbulb - with a charred bamboo fiber in a vacuum glass bulb - in 1854, 25 years before Edison picked up on this invention.
		Heinrich Gustav Hilgard, known as Henry Villard, made a name for himself in the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
		In 1903 Heinrich Conried from Bielitz assumed the leadership of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, to which he summoned Gustav Mahler in 1907.
	www.wintersonnenwende.com /scriptorium/english/archives/germanamerica/ghba03.html (3295 words)

	mental_floss library
		In 1850, a German immigrant named Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg came to America with four sons, three daughters, and a dream.
		He was a cabinetmaker and an award-winning piano maker that sought to bring his craft across the Atlantic.
		Steinweg built a factory in the aforementioned loft in 1853 to build pianos, and within a year, he "Americanized" his name to Henry Steinway.
	www.mentalfloss.com /archives/archive2003-07-27.htm (205 words)

	Wrigley Piano
		The Steinway dynasty begins with Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, who constructed his first piano-forte in 1825 in Seesen, Germany, for his new bride.
		Of 10 children born to the Steinwegs, nine survived.
		They helped build the first Steinweg grand piano in the family kitchen in 1836.
	home.att.net /~montystark/Wrigley_Piano.html (707 words)

	Piano Refinishing - Piano Tuning
		Founded in 1853 by a cabinetmaker named Henry Engelhard Steinweg, Steinway & Sons revolutionized the piano industry through innovative designs, superb craftsmanship, and an impressive number of patents.
		Because of their sweet singing tone and rich sustain, the Grotrian piano has long been considered the Stradivarius of hand-made German pianos, earning the endorsement of prominent pianists and technicians throughout the world.
		The Grotrian piano company was founded by Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, the same man who immigrated to New York in 1850 to found Steinway & Sons.
	www.beethovenpianos.com /index_html.php (385 words)

	Picture History - Henry Steinway (1797-1871)
		Henry Steinway, the famous piano maker, was born Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, in Germany.
		By 1839 he exhibited his first grand and square pianos at the Brunswick State Fair and won a gold medal.
		Steinweg took his family to the U.S. in 1850.
	www.picturehistory.com /find/p/18296/mcms.html (169 words)

	Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Henrich Engelhard Steinweg (February 17, EHandler: no quick summary.
		A piano is a large musical instrument with a keyboard....
		Steinweg emigrated from Brunswick[For more info, click on this link], EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /enc2/heinrich_engelhard_steinweg (108 words)

	JAP - Online Information article about JAP
		Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e.
		Later, in 1855, Henry Engelhard Steinway (originally Steinweg; Steinway.
		York in 1849, and had established the firm of Steinway and Sons in 1853 in that See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /INV_JED/JAP.html (3589 words)

	SternBusiness Fall/Winter 2003
		Steinway’s founder, Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, was born in Wolfshagen, Lower Saxony in 1797.
		Receiving favorable word, Heinrich sold his house in the spring of 1850 and journeyed to America with his three daughters, five sons and wife.
		Arriving in New York, Heinrich, now called Henry E. Steinway, took a job making soundboards at piano maker Leuchte for $6 per week.
	www.stern.nyu.edu /Sternbusiness/fall_winter_2003/keystosuccess.html (3087 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Family Pride -- Oct. 26, 1953 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The first Steinway piano took eleven years to build; it was just a sideline for Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, cabinetmaker in the German town of Seesen after the Napoleonic wars.
		Heinrich Steinweg and his sons gave up cabinetmaking and decided to make the best pianos in the world.
		Since then, a distinguished company of piano players, from Paderewski and Rachmaninoff to Fats Waller and Jimmy Durante, have hailed their decision.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,819010,00.html (156 words)

	Unsere Nachnamen
		Thus, the name Wannenmacher, which literally means tubmaker, was transformed into the German-American combination Wanamaker; instead of choosing Stoneway, the piano-maker Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg changed his name to Steinway when he came to America in 1851.
		The Wistinghausens from Westphalia went down in technological history under the name of Westinghouse, and the Stutenbeckers from the Palatinate became the Studebakers of Detroit, General Nicholas Herkimer, who fell in the Revolutionary War, descended from a Herr Herchheimer who was born near Heidelberg in the year 1700.
		Wenn es zwischen dem deutschen Namen und seiner englischen Entsprechung oder Übersetzung jedoch Differenzen gab, zogen viele Einwanderer eine hybride oder Teilübertragung vor.
	www.nku.edu /~jentsch/nachnamen.htm (4109 words)

	Syllabus for German Immigrant Culture in America: Lesson 15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Engelhard Steinweg (1797-1871) founded the company that produces the superb Steinway concert grands.
		Gustave Schirmer (1829-1893) was a pioneer music publisher in America.
		"Anthony Philip Heinrich: The Ornithological Combat of Kings, or the Candor of the Andes and the Eagle of the Cordilleras." New World Records, NW 208.
	www-lib.iupui.edu /kade/merrill/lesson15.html (934 words)

	HistoryWired: A few of our favorite things
		Born in 1797 in Wolfshagen, Germany, Heinrich Engelhardt Steinweg fought--on the winning side--at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
		In 1849 he immigrated to New York with three sons.
		There, as Henry Engelhard Steinway, he opened a shop in 1853.
	historywired.si.edu /detail.cfm?ID=155 (481 words)

	Amazon.ca: Steinway and Sons: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
		Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg founded Steinway & Sons in 1853 to build grand pianos with superior sound and action.
		The company's story is that of four generations of a large family, labor and management relations, marketing, and general economic conditions.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0300068506 (804 words)

	K 2571: The Making of a Steinway Grand" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Steinway & Sons piano company, founded in a Manhattan loft in 1853 by a German immigrant named Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg and his sons, is based today on a ten-acre factory site in the northwestern corner of Queens, New York, in the area commonly called Astoria.
		There, at least according to the family legend, Heinrich E. Steinweg, a cabinetmaker by trade, built his first piano as a spare-time project in the kitchen of his home, in 1836.
		Fourteen years later, when he sailed to the United States and became Henry E. Steinway, he was a rather atypical immigrant: fifty-three years old, apparently prosperous, and so uninterested in the New World adventure that he refused to learn English.
	www.sherwinbeach.com /lenehan/K2571.htm (18325 words)

	The Definitive Guide to German-American XXXX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Baron von Steuben, a former Prussian officer, led the reorganization of the U.S. Army during the War for Independence and helped make the victory against British troops possible.
		The Steinway and Sons piano manufacturing firm was founded by immigrant Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg in 1853.
		German settlers brought the Christmas tree custom to the United States.
	www.xxxx.com /s/German-American (2117 words)

	Jennifer Bookman Proposal
		Jennifer Bookman, Malkavian, is the childe of C.F. Theodore Steinway, accomplished pianist and former director of his father Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg's company-- Steinway & Sons pianos.
		She was, of course, first the child of Charles and Marla Bookman, a pair of lower-middle-class Florida suburbanites who gradually worked their way into a trailer park through a combination of alcoholism, debt, a refusal to exercise, and the attendant medical bills which followed all three.
		Last modified: Sun Jan 7 17:46:30 MST 2001
	www.cs.berkeley.edu /~pal/larp/jen.html (815 words)

	CLASSICALmanac: February 12 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		1770 Birth of German composer Johann Christian Heinrich RINCK in Elgersberg.
		1910 Death of German composer Albert Heinrich Zabel, at age 75.
		1617 Heinrich Schutz takes position as director of the Dresden Court chapel.
	classicalmanac.blogspot.com /2006_02_12_classicalmanac_archive.html (6383 words)

	Amazon.com: Steinway: Books: Chronicle Books LLC Staff,Ronald Ratcliffe,Henry Z. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		This lavishly illustrated book tells the remarkable story of the Steinway company and its founding family.
		Heinrich Steinweg emigrated to America at the age of fifty-three with his large and talented family and founded Steinway & Sons, which was to become the builder of premium pianos in America.?
		New York, Steinway Hall, William Steinway, Steinway Artists, United States, Anton Rubinstein, Carnegie Hall, Henry Steinway, Long Island, Theodore Steinway, White House, Second World War, Hamburg Steinway, Josef Hofmann, Artur Rubinstein, East Fourteenth Street, Heinrich Steinweg, Henry Engelhard Steinway, Juan Ayuso, American Steinway, Charles Steinway, Franz Mohr, Vladimir Horowitz, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Fourth Avenue
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0877015929?v=glance (1753 words)

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