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Teodor Betting (1827–1892), was a German piano maker's son and student, and the founder of the piano manufacturer SCHIRMER & SON.

Biography

Betting was born in Emmerich, Rhineland, Germany. His adoptive father Glandt Schirmer and his grandfather Johann Georg Schirmer were cabinetmakers and piano makers. He worked with Julius Ferdinand Blüthner in Leipzig, ED. Seiler in Liegnitz, as well as in Breslau and St. Petersburg.[1]

In 1887, he set up his own company producing upright and grand pianos, as well as reed organs. He died, aged. 65, in Kalisz.

References

  1. ↑ Fine, Larry (2001). THE PIANO BOOK (Fourth ed.). P.O. Box 300168, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts 20130: Brookside Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-192914501-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)


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