Walter, Gabriel Anton

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Basic data

  1. February 5, 1752 in Neuhausen auf den Fildern
  2. April 11, 1826 in Wien
  3. Klavierbauer
  4. Wien

Iconography

Anton Walter. Oil painting by Friedrich Gauermann, 1825 (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum) (Source: Wikimedia)
Fortepiano by Anton Walter & Sohn (Vienna, ca. 1805) – Berlin, Musikinstrumentenmuseum (Source: Wikimedia)
Mozart's Walter, on display in the main hall of the Tanzmeisterhaus [de], where the Mozart family lived in Salzburg after 1773. The location (now a Mozart museum) is ahistorical; during his lifetime Mozart kept the instrument in his adopted city of Vienna. (Source: Wikimedia)
Fortepiano by Paul McNulty, based on a historical instrument by Walter & Sohn, 1805 (Source: Wikimedia)

Biographical information from the WeGA

einer der bedeutendsten Klavierbauer der Wiener Klassik, unterhielt 1778 bis 1825 eine Klavierbauwerkstatt auf der Laimgrube in Wien

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