Upright piano ca. 1952-54, Museum of Industrial History, Opatówek, Poland

Pianoforte-brand of FIBIGER ca. 1950-2007 [since 1949 (z1950)]

1950 - "The ZZPM includes the piano action factory in Lubin Legnicki, which also includes a violin-making department; the grand piano and upright piano factory in Legnica; the grand piano and upright piano factory in Kalisz; and the Phoenographic Works in Warsaw. The gramophone needle factory and the spring gramophone assembly plant in Poznań are currently in the process of being organized. In 1949, the factories in Lubiń and Legnica were engaged in the reconstruction of keyboard instruments that had been seized in large quantities and completely destroyed, approximately 600 of which were put into use. The piano and upright piano factory in Kalisz has started developing and producing a new type of piano called «Calisia». [...][...] [Google-translation]" Trybuna Ludu : organ Komitetu Centralnego Polskiej Zjednoczonej Partii Robotniczej, nr. 12, 12/01/1950, p. 5 (archive.org)

BIO

This factory established in Calisia [or Kalisz], in Poland, since 1949  by Gustav Arnold FIBIGER (°1878). The factory become closed during WW1. After WW1 and WW2 the Soviet occupation of Poland, this company was nationalized in 1945, and they only made furniture. From around 1949, they begun again a new pianoforte production. In 2007, the Calisia factory closed. After 2010, the Calisia name was acquired by VERSHOLD.

Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906-12 [since 1881 (x1906)]

'Musikal.-, Piano- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1906) ------- 'Musikinstr.- u. Sprechm.-Handlung' (x1912)

'Klavierlehrer, handelt nebenbei mit Pianos, Musikw. u. Sprechm.' (x1912)(x1925)

'Pianoreparateur und Stimmer' (xx1890)

'Piano-Handlung' (x1912)(x1926)

'Piano-Handlung' (x1912) ------ 'Pianobauer' (x1926)

Rola : pismo tygodniowe, społeczno-literackie / pod red. Jana Jeleńskiego, R. 7, Nr. 46, 04/11/1889, p. 697 (archive.org)

'Piano-Handlung' (x1906)

Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer and music editor ca. 1892–1944 [since 1882 (x1912) or since 1892 (x1925)]

Bytom

 'Musikal-, Piano-, Harmonium-, Musikinstr.-, Musikw.- u. Sprechmaschinen-Händler, sowie -Reparateur u. Klavierstimmer' (x1912) ------- 'Musikal.-, Piano-, Harmonium-, Musikinstr.-, Musikwaren- u. Sprechm.-Hdlg., Stimm.- u. Rep.-Werkst.' (x1925)

1925 - Managers : Anna & Theobald CIEPLIK (x1925)

1929 - "Aus der Firma Musikhaus Th. Cieplik G. m. b. H. Hauptgeschäft Beuthen ist Frau Anna Cieplik als Geschäftsführerin ausgeschieden und an ihre Stelle Herr Direktor August Kaul aus Bad Homburg getreten. Der alleinige Gesellschafter ist Herr Theobald Cieplik. Das Musikhaus Theobald Cieplik in Hindenburg ist von der Firma Musikhaus Th. Cieplik G. m. b. H. in Beuthen käuflich erworben worden und wird als Filiale weitergeführt. Die Firma Th. Cieplik G. m. b. H. besitzt außer der Filiale in Hindenburg noch die Filialen in Gleiwitz, in Oppeln und außerdem eine Klavierniederlage in Ratibor." Zeitschrift für Instrumentenbau, 1929, p. 400

Gliwice

'Musikal.-, Piano-, Harm.-, Musikinstr.- u. Sprechm.-Handlung' (x1925)

Racibórz
[since 1895 (x1925)]

'Piano- u. Musikinstr.-Handlung' (x1912) ------- 'Filiame, Piano-, Harmonium u. Sprechm.-Handlung' (x1925)

1912 - Branch representatitve : Frau M. GROSCHOLL (x1912)

1925 - Branch representatitve : Franz SCHNURPHEIL (x1925)

MAIN FIRM : 33, Bahnhofstrasse (x1912)(x1925)(*1929)(*1933), 10, Bahnhofstrasse (x1925), Bytom (Beuthen, formerly Germany)

BRANCH : 16, Ring (x1925), 11, Wilhelmstrasse (*1931), Gliwice (Gleiwitz, formerly Germany)

BRANCH : 297, Kronprinzenstrasse (*1931), Hindenburg, Germany

BRANCH : 36, Krakauer Strasse (*1931) , Oppeln (Opole)

BRANCH : Bahnhofstrasse (x1912), 1, Malzstrasse (x1925)(*1931), Racibórz (before Ratibor, Germany)

Pianoforte-maker and/or pianoforte dealer ca. 1906-12 [since 1887 (x1906)(x1912)]

Successor of Otto BEIGEL (x1906)(x1912)

'Musikal.-, Klavier-, Harmonium-, Musikinstr.- u. Saiten-Handlung' (x1912)

'Pianofabrik' (xx1890)

Grand pianoforte ca. 1830, Muzeum Narodowe, Cracow, Poland
Grand pianoforte ca. 1830-1835, Andrzej Szwalbe Collection, Bydgoszcz (formerly Bromberg), Poland

'Vertreter der Piano-Fabrik Fiebiger in Kalisch' (x1912)

BIO

“CZISZAK et PETERSEN, facteurs de pianos à Krzemieniec vers 1840, cités par le Tyyodnik Petersburgski de la même année.” Les musiciens polonais et slaves, anciens et modernes: dictionnaire, Albert Sowiński, 1857, p. 139

"CZISAK and PETERSEN, founded a pianoforte factory in Krzemieniec around 1830. After their fall, the Lyceum moved to Kiev, where their instruments were very successful. In a short time they played on their grand pianoforte in numerous courts in Podolia, Volhynia and Ukraine." [Google-translation] Słownik muzyków polskich : dawnych i nowoczesnych kompozytorów, wyrtuozów ..., Albert Sowiński, 1874, p. 69

CZISZAK & PETERESEN (ca. 1840), look also to PETERESEN

(x1906): 'Weltadressbuch der gesammten Musikinstrumenten-Industrie, 1906,  Beuthen p. 55, Bielitz p. 241, Neustadt p. 186, Czenstochau p. 542, Lublin p. 547, Warschau p. 559-560 (digital.sim.spk-berlin.de)

(x1912): 'Welt-Adressbuch der gesamten Musikinstrumenten-Industrie', 1912, Beuthen p. 83, Neustadt p. 257, Ratibor p. 274, Bielitz p. 330, Lodz p. 702, Lublin p. 703, Warschau p. 718-720 (digital.sim.spk-berlin.de)

(z1913): 'Czas : kalendarz na rok 1913', p. 83 (archive.org)

(x1925): 'Welt-Adressbuch der gesamten Musikinstrumenten-Industrie', 1925, Beuthen p. 140, Gleiwitz p. 248, Neustadt p. 482, Ratibor p. 511 (digital.sim.spk-berlin.de)

(x1926): 'Welt-Adressbuch der gesamten Musikinstrumenten-Industrie', 1926, Łódź p. 466, Warschau p. 467-468 (digital.sim.spk-berlin.de)

(*1929): 'Musique-Adresses Universel', 1929

(*1931): 'Adressbuch des deutschen Buchhandels' 1931, p. 110

(*1933): 'The Edwin A. Fleisher music collection in the Free library of Philadelphia', 1933, p. 14

(z1950): 'Trybuna Ludu : organ Komitetu Centralnego Polskiej Zjednoczonej Partii Robotniczej', nr. 12, 12/01/1950, p. 5 (archive.org)

(¹): 'Histoire de piano de 1700 à 1950', Mario Pizzi, 1983

(⁴): 'Music in the Culture of Polish Galicia, 1772-1914', Jolanta T. Pekacz, 2002, p. 50