Gabriel Anton Walter was a builder of pianos. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes him as "the most famous Viennese piano maker of his time". Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert all owned and played on Walter's pianos.
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Anton Walter. Oil painting by Friedrich Gauermann, 1825 (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum)
Fortepiano by Anton Walter & Sohn (Vienna, ca. 1805) - Berlin, Musikinstrumentenmuseum
Mozart's Walter, on display in the main hall of the Tanzmeisterhaus, where the Mozart family lived in Salzburg after 1773. The location (now a Mozart museum) is ahistorical; during his lifetime Mozart kept the instrument in his adopted city of Vienna.
Fortepiano by Paul McNulty, based on a historical instrument by Walter & Sohn, 1805In their orbit 3
Musicians born in the 1750s 6
About this person
Category
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1752 to 1826 · aged 74
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