c 1800's: Sohmer Piano Company. "Preferred by the Leading Artists."
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- "Violins / Banjos / Guitars / Accordions / Sheet Music / Antique Piano / Organ -related Business Advertising Trade Card
Pictured: "Campanini / Gerster / Thursby / Patti / Nilsson / Galassi / Niemann / Thursby / Kellogg."
AMAZING: portraits of 19th Century "Rock Star Celebrities" around the piano!!! (See below!!!)
- Italo Campanini was a leading Italian operatic tenor, whose career reached its height in London in the 1870s and in New York
in the 1880s and 1890s. He had a repertoire of 80 operas and was the brother of the orchestral conductor Cleofonte Campanini.
- Etelka Gerster was a Hungarian soprano. She debuted in Italy in 1876 and sang in London the following year.
In 1878, she was performing in the Academy of Music where she was considered one of the leading singers of her time.
She married Pietro Gardini, and they had a child, after which Gerster never sang professionally again. From 1896 until 1917,
she taught singing in Berlin with such students as Ilona Durigo, Therese Schnabel, Matja von Niessen-Stone, and Lotte Lehmann.
- Emma Thursby was an American singer popular in Europe and the United States. In the late 1860s and early 1870s, Thursby
sang with performers including Ole Bull and Theodore Thomas. In 1874, she drew acclaim performing in concerts with
Patrick Gilmore's 22nd Regiment Band at venues including the Philadelphia Academy of Music. Her voice was notable for its
clarity, power, and range (from middle C to E-flat above the staff). She was popular in both America and Europe.
- Adelina Patti was an Italian 19th-century opera singer, earning huge fees at the height of her career in music capitals of world.
She first sang in public as a child in 1851, and gave her last performance before an audience in 1914.
Along with her near contemporaries Jenny Lind and Thérèse Tietjens, Patti remains one of the most famous sopranos in history,
owing to the purity and beauty of her lyrical voice and the unmatched quality of her bel canto technique....
... described as perhaps the finest singer who had ever lived and a "stupendous artist."
Antonio F. Galassi (or Antoine Galassi) (1845–1904) was an Italian baritone who made his New York City debut at
Academy of Music during its 1878–79 season and remained there through 1884. He was considered a great baritone,
popular and fiery, right until 1883 when, according to some sources, he lost his voice during performance of I Puritani.
Although later on he still performed occasionally, even in 1890s, his voice was no longer as great as before.
- Clara Louise Kellogg was an American operatic soprano. In 1874 Kellogg organized an opera company
widely known in the United States, and her enterprise and energy in directing it were remarkable. The company weathered a
tragedy on May 26, 1882, when two members -virtuoso pianist Herman Rietzel and bass singer George Conly-
drowned on Lake Spofford while on tour. Kellogg retired after marrying Carl Strakosch in 1886.
In 1913 she published her memoirs under the title Memoirs of an American Prima Donna. She died in New Hartford, Connecticut.
- Albert Niemann (tenor) was a leading German tenor opera singer especially associated with the operas of
Richard Wagner. He gave important premieres in France, Germany, England and the United States, and
played Siegmund in the first complete production of Der Ring des Nibelungen (Bayreuth Festspielhaus 1876).
- Christina Nilsson was a Swedish operatic soprano. She possessed a bel canto technique and was considered a
rival to the Victorian era's most famous diva, Adelina Patti. Nilsson --- (All of the above profiles from Wikipedia)
NOTE: from www - AntiquePianoShop - online museum The Sohmer Piano Company ...
The Sohmer Piano Company built some of the finest pianos in American history. Sohmer was established in 1872 by Hugo Sohmer and K. Kuder when they purchased The Marshall & Mittauer Piano Company in New York. Sohmer was one of the largest and most prestigious piano makers of the 19th and early 20th Centuries, and they offered a full line of squares, grands, uprights, and player pianos. Sohmer was known for their use of elaborate woods and had a reputation for exquisite craftsmanship. Sohmer is one of only a handful of American piano manufacturers to survive and keep the company in the family throughout the 20th Century. Sohmer was sold to Pratt Reed & Company in 1982, then it was sold again subsequently. Sohmer was out of production for a few years in the 1990s, but the prestigious old name is being produced again today..
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