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Charles Louis Howard c. 1825

Description

Date:

1825

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Origin:

Bern

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Serialnumber:

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This square piano was build by the famous Swiss instrument maker family Hauert and was made around 1825 in Bern. The case of the instrument and the original legs are made of mahogany. On the front at the lock is a fine bronze application. On the nameboard in a ceramic cartridge reads the inscription:

“Charles Louis

Howard

Facteur de Forte Piano

A Berne”

Hauert followed the new fashion and signed his pianos in French. The original keyboard in ivory and ebony has a compass of 6 octaves.

There are two pedals controlling dampers and Sordine.

Charles Louis Howard was born on 1^st October 1785 in Bern. He was the fifth child of Joseph Hauert, a member of the important Swiss piano maker family.

On 22^th June 1826 he married Maria Catharina Huber (1801 – 1829) who died at birth with her first son. On 22^th October 1831 he married Rosina Catharina Kannkamp (1801 – 1847). After her death he married Elise Borle (1826 – 1869) on 10^th July 1849. This marriage also remained childless.

Together with Carl Christoph Kützing he founded the company Howard & Kützing. He died on 27^th March 1863.

Other surviving instruments by Charles Louis Howard:

• c. 1830 square piano (No. 1166) – Händel-Haus, Halle an der Saale, Germany