Articles on the endorsement of Weber pianos by prominent musicians

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Instrumental

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Published

Last Updated:
4 April 2025

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

05 Dec 1873

Performers and/or Works Performed

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LIST OF PERFORMER(S)/ORGANIZATION(S)
Participants:  Strakosch Italian Opera Company;  Christine Nilsson;  Pauline Lucca

Citations

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Article: New-York Daily Tribune, 05 December 1873, 5.

“From The N.Y. World.

New-York, Nov. 26, 1873.

Dear Mr. Weber: As I leave New-York to-morrow let me kindly thank you for the Upright Piano which I used all Summer in Kingston, and before that in the city since my arrival in America. Your Upright Pianos are extraordinary instruments. They have an astonishing fullness and wealth of tone, which adapts them excellently well to the voice. The action I find charming, and this one surprised me by hardly ever needing the tuner. Your instruments fully deserve the great success which they have obtained. Pauline Lucca.”

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Article: New-York Daily Tribune, 20 December 1873, 7.

“Mr. A. Weber—Dear sir:

Please accept my best thanks for the magnificent Grand Piano that you sent me during my stay in New-York. It is hardly necessary to say that it satisfied me in all respects and I shall take every opportunity to recommend and praise your instruments to all my friends. Believe me, Dear Sir, yours truly, Christine Nilsson Bouzaud.”

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Article: New York Post, 23 December 1873, 2.

Reproduces the same Nilsson letter of the New York Tribune article (12/20/73).

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Article: New York Post, 24 December 1873, 3.

Reproduces the same Strakosch Company letter of the New York Tribune article (12/24/73).

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Article: New-York Daily Tribune, 24 December 1873, 7.

“New York, Dec. 6, 1873.

Mr. Weber: The Artists of the Strakosch Italian Opera Company of 1873 and ’74 feel it a duty and a pleasure to thank you for the pianos for their public and private use, and to express their unqualified admiration of their superiority in every respect.

The tone of your instruments is so pure and prolonged and of such inexhaustible depth that they sustain the voice in a wonderful degree; action so elastic, are built so strong and [illeg.], and stand in time so remarkably well, that we readily accord the Weber pianos the title of the instruments, par excellence. We feel that every one [sic] is fortunate who owns a Weber piano, and we honestly say that we not only commend them in the highest terms, but consider them the best pianos in the world.” Signed Torriani, Maresi, Capoul, Del Puente, Cary, Campanini, Maurel, Nannetti, Muzio, and Behrens.