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Ignaz Bösendorfer was an Austrian musician who founded the
BösendorferBösendorfer is an Austrian piano manufacturer, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Yamaha. The brand is known for producing pianos with a uniquely rich, singing, and sustaining tone...
piano manufacturing company in 1828.
His close relationship with the Austrian royal family, and later with
Franz LisztFranz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...
, ensured the success of his creations. After his death, his son Ludwig took over the firm.