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Treasures from the past:
The Emil Ascherberg piano
COLONIAL SETTLERS of
Canterbury treasured their
precious pianos, which were not
just for entertainment but were
also a status symbol.
Additionally, they were useful
for educating young ladies in
the art of music, so as to show
off their accomplishments and
attract only the most suitable of
husbands.
In what was called the ‘golden
age of pianos’, these instruments
were a sought-after treasure
across the Australasian colonies
of the Victorian British Empire.
And one brand in particular
figured prominently in the 19th
century: The Emil Ascherberg,
as pictured here in the museum’s
collection. Allegedly made by
their namesake in Dresden,
Germany, between 1877 and
1883, many were imported to
the Australasian markets by the
music publishers and importers
of fortepianos, cabinet organs
and harmoniums, J. Nicholson
and E. Ascherberg Inc.
Eugene Ascherberg, a composer
for voice and piano, also from
Dresden, may or may not have
been Emil’s relative – or he may
have even been Emil himself.
Nonetheless, he arrived
in Melbourne in 1867 from
London. He was an initiate of
the Freemason Lodge of Australia
Felix by 1872, and in 1875
launched Australasia’s first retail
music store, on Sydney’s George
Street, with James Nicholson
(formerly of Bradford UK).
The piano importing partnership
lasted until 1879, when the
business dissolved and Eugene
returned to London where
he started a music publishing
business, E. Ascherberg & Co, in
1880.
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Emil Ascherberg, except that
he owned the Dresden factory
that made pianos under his own
brand name from 1877, although
the company was not incorporated
until 1880, the year after
Eugene arrived back from the
colonies.
In 1883, Emil ran into financial
difficulties and the piano factory
was bankrupted – at the same
time as Eugene’s E. Ascherberg
& Co, importers of French and
German pianofortes in London,
also apparently went bankrupt.
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Wednesday October 27 2021 Bay Harbour News
GOLDEN AGE: The
Emil Ascherberg
piano, with its
signature ornate
clawed feet.
Te Ūaka The
Lyttelton Museum
ref 1066.1
https://www.teuaka.
org.nz/onlinecollection/603456
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‘Emil’ absconded and was
allegedly “trading pots in
Copenhagen [from] January
1884” before apparently setting
up another business as a music
publisher in London. Not much
more is known of this E. Ascherberg,
as the factory and many
records were destroyed in the fire
bombing of Dresden in WW2.
Eugene, however, continued to
run various music-related businesses
while residing peacefully
in London with his wife and
children up until his death in
1908.
Aside from these historical
ambiguities, it seems likely we
can place the year of manufacture
of our museum’s Emil
Ascherberg piano, with its
signature ornate clawed feet, as
sometime between 1875 – when
the Australasian import business
began – and 1883 – when Emil’s
piano factory went bankrupt and
was sold, after which the pianos
were manufactured under the
name of Ascherberg Perzina.
We look forward to displaying
this fine example of Victorian
piano making and colonial
commerces once the future Te
Ūaka Lyttelton Museum is built
to house the collection.