from 1858 to 1860.īy 1860, owing to Steck’s celebrity and the renown of his pianos’ qualities, the business changed to George Steck & Company and expanded production, moving to Walker Street before requiring a factory on West 34th Street. In 1853, Steck left for New York to replicate his mentor’s success, working for several years in “the best shops,” and in 1857, formed a partnership with William Grupe to create the firm Steck & Grupe on Elm St. George Steck, 1856, Age 27, Daguerreotype. Scheel, who also hailed from Cassel, left Érard in 1846 to start his own company.ĭuring this time, Steck harnessed every opportunity to study piano manufacturing his natural talents were well disposed to the instrument, showing an early mechanical genius and expert scale draftsmanship. A “piano maker of the old school,” he honed his skills while as an apprentice under Carl Scheel (1813 – 1892), an enterprising man who had once worked for the prestigious French piano manufacturer Sébastian Érard (1752 – 1831) between 1837-1846. George Steck was born on Jin Hesse Cassel, Germany. George Steck – A Short Biography (1829 – 1897) Walt ‘Whitman first delivered the “Death of Lincoln” lecture at Steck Hall in New York on April 14, 1879, to reflect upon the meaning of Lincoln’s death to an American nation pressed to reunite and heal from the wounds of the Civil War.’ The evening began with a musical performance, proceeded by prose, and ended with the famous mourning poem to the president, “O Captain! My Captain!” Library of Congress
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