Feurich (Feurich Pianoforte GmbH) is a piano company founded in 1851 in Leipzig, Germany, by Julius Gustav Feurich, which has been family operated for five generations. The company is renowned for the quality of its pianos.
Since 2011, Feurich has been owned by the Austrian piano manufacturer formerly known as Wendl & Lung, and the bulk of its manufacturing is carried out in China, except for the upright piano 123 – Vienna, which is manufactured in Vienna, Austria.[1] In 2021, Feurich – Wendl&Lung GmbH was renamed Feurich Pianoforte GmbH.[2]
History
Artisanal piano making has a long tradition in Saxony.[3] The city of Leipzig was, along with Paris, London, and Vienna, one of the pillars of European musical culture and music capital of the German Empire. In addition to its great cultural heritage, the metropolis was also an excellent trading venue with a lot of national contacts and a prosperous middle class. Here Julius Gustav Feurich founded the piano factory, Feurich, in 1851.