Spiecker. Dr., of Berlin.
Spohr.
Stadler, Abbé Maximilian (born 1748, died 1833), a composer, and the friend of Mozart; an opponent of the Beethoven school of music (see Schindler's "Biography," i. 80; ii. 109).
Standenheim, a celebrated physician in Vienna.
Stein, pianoforte manufacturer at Vienna, brother of Frau Nanette Streicher.
Steiner, S.A., music publisher in Vienna, succeeded by T. Haslinger.
Sterkel, Franz Xaver, a pleasing pianist and composer, whom Beethoven visited at Aschaffenburg in 1791, and greatly astonished by his pianoforte playing.
Stoll, a young poet at Vienna.
Streicher, Andreas, the well-known friend of Schiller's early days. He married, when in his nineteenth year, Nanette Stein, only daughter of the celebrated pianoforte manufacturer at Augsburg, whom he took with him to Vienna, where he first became teacher of the pianoforte, and afterwards, by the assistance of his wife, who had made herself acquainted with her father's art, founder of the celebrated Streicher pianoforte manufactory. Schindler, in his "Biography," i. 187, speaks of the interest taken by Frau Streicher in Beethoven's domestic matters.
Stumpff, harp manufacturer in London, an admirer of Beethoven's works.