Bösendorfer
Company[edit]
L. Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik GmbH, Graf Starhemberg-Gasse 14, A-1040 Vienna
Austrian piano manufacturer.
- Founded in 1828 by Ignaz Bösendorfer in Vienna.
- Subsidiary of Yamaha since late 2007.
- Distributed a line of loudspeakers designed by Hans Deutsch for 8 years until its acquisition by Yamaha.
Takeover of the loudspeaker division by Brodmann[edit]
- The loudspeaker division of the Bösendorfer company was taken over by Brodmann at the end of 2008.
- Background:
- Brodmann is also a long-established Viennese piano manufacturer.
- Brodmann had originally been interested in the entire Bösendorfer company, losing out to Yamaha in a bidding process in 2007.
- Brodmann is currently managed by the same people who decided to enter the loudspeaker manufacturing business at Bösendorfer at the time.
The VC series will continue to be offered by Brodmann unchanged.