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Born April 5, 1752 • Strasbourg • France
Died August 5, 1831 (aged 79) • near Passy • France
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German piano craftsman
A pianoforte by Bartolomeo Cristofori
Bartolomeo Cristofori
Italian harpsichord maker
Steinway, Henry Engelhard
Henry Engelhard Steinway
American piano maker
John Broadwood
British piano maker
Johann Christoph Zumpe
German-born piano maker
Ignace Joseph Pleyel, watercolour by an unknown artist
Ignace Joseph Pleyel
Austrian-French composer
Laurens Hammond
American inventor
Theobald Boehm
German woodwind maker
Sax, lithograph by Auguste Bry after a portrait by Charles Baugniet, 1844
Adolphe Sax
Belgian inventor
Ignaz Bösendorfer
Austrian piano craftsman
Gottfried Silbermann
German instrument manufacturer
Henri Herz
Austrian musician
Johann Christoph Denner
German musician
Robert Hope-Jones
British-American organ maker
Frédéric Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Irène Joliot-Curie
French chemist
Auguste Lumière
French inventor
Louis Lumière
French inventor
Joseph-Michel Montgolfier
French aviator
Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier
French aviator