What is Johann Fritz?
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} '''Johann Peter Fritz''' was a Viennese piano maker of the XIX century.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pianoforte Johann Fritz|url=https://www.chrismaene.be/nl/historical-keyboard-instruments/pianoforte-johann-fritz/|access-date=14 July 2021|website=www.chrismaene.be}}</ref> He was building instruments for famous composers along with [[Conrad Graf]], [[Anton Walter]] and [[Johann Baptist Streicher]]. Fritz started producing pianos in [[Vienna]], but moved his workshop to [[Graz]] after 1837.<ref>Novak Clinkscale, Martha (1993). [https://books.google.com/books?id=iqK3FPhQm5gC&q=Johann+Peter+Fritz+1834 Makers of the Piano: 1820-1860.] Oxford University Press. p. 137. ISBN 0198166257.</ref> He died in 1834 and was buried in Vienna.(5) After Fritz's death, his son Joseph continued the family business. (5) Fritz's pianos were good quality instruments and they were valued for melodiousness.<ref>Dow, William; Burnett, Richard (2004). [https://books.google.com/books?id=JnMqWhPEtBUC Company of Pianos.] Finchcocks Press. p. 121. ISBN 9781903942352.</ref> Italian composer [[Giuseppe Verdi]] had one of the Fritz's pianos and used it (Viennese 6 pedal piano) from 1851 to 1871. This piano is displayed in Villa Verdi in the Province of [[Piacenza]] in [[Italy]].(3) Some of other Fritz's instruments are presented in The Museum of Musical Instruments in Milan, the [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]] and The Finchcocks Charity for Musical Education in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.<ref>{{Cite web|title=BBC Radio 3 - Music Matters, Books on Opera and World Music, Matthew Herbert, Finchcocks Musical Museum - Johann Fritz Grand Piano, Vienna, circa 1815|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03bqtk6/p03bqsj4|access-date=14 July 2021|website=BBC|language=en-GB}}</ref> == References == {{Reflist}} == Other websites == * [https://www.piacenzaonline.info/salviamo-villa-verdi-lanciata-una-campagna-di-raccolta-fondi-online/ Salviamo Villa Verdi. Lanciata una campagna di raccolta fondi online (in Italian)] * [https://www.min