Artists & References

An instrument maker without connections to composers and musicians would be like a physicist without a laboratory.  Eduard Steingraeber had, luckily, already benefitted from Bayreuth’s location as one of the world’s greatest musical centers. 

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Richard Wagner wrote that Steingraeber’s pianos were superb... “vastly surpassing all other instruments of this kind that I have ever encountered.”

Today, about sixty performances take place at Steingraeber House each year.  By keeping in touch with the times and with our musician friends, we constantly search for the perfect sound that each era calls forth.

Steingraeber & Söhne Standparty Musikmesse Frankfurt 2008

"Best of Beatles", Bernhard Wetz & Stefanie Asal

Festspielstadt Bayreuth

Richard Wagner und die Künstler ... Genius loci ?

There are many reasons to come to Bayreuth, not the least of which are the palaces and theaters of the 18th-c. Bayreuth Rococo.  Steingraeber-Haus is a 1754 Rococo palace and remains unchanged to this day.  With its salons, the grand piano hall, piano exhibition rooms, small concert hall, gallery and Steingraeber court theater, Steingraeber-Haus is a lively cultural center during the summertime in Bayreuth. 

Every customer is welcome at the Steingraeber & Söhne workshops, where he/she can experience firsthand the genesis of certain unique and specific qualities, select that special sound or touch right on location in Bayreuth, have special needs incorporated into the design, take advantage of various patents, and/or contribute his/her own ideas.

Photo: Steingraeber's 1881 Parsifal bells for Richard Wagner

Duo Yaara Tal & Andreas Groethuysen
Photo: Kolb,NK

Nina Stemme, Sopran and Bénédicte Haid, piano
Photo: Kolb, NK

Franz Liszt

Nicolai Demidenko

Cyprien Katsaris

Marc-André Hamelin

Renée Fleming and Hartmut Höll