Musicology Annotation << Back Piano maker Johann Friedrich Schr&#246;der (1785–1852): 200th anniversary of the piano company «C. M. Schroder» Maxim V. Sergeev The relevance of the study and its scientifi c novelty is characterized by the fact that in year 2016 the piano-manufacturing company «C. M. Schröder» (St. Petersburg) celebrates 200 years since foundation. The materials on the activities of the German origin Russian piano maker J. F. Schröder (1785–1852) refute stereotypes about the place of his company in the Russian piano making structure of the fi rst half of XIX century and pseudo-competition with fi rms J. F. Diederichs and J. Becker. This article discusses the possible reasons why J. F. Schröder workshop worked without official registration in the period 1816–1818, one of which could be temporary job in other city where piano craft workshop didn’t exist. In the fi rst years of J. F. Schröder`s workshop activity, he needed a distance from namesake-competitors C. R. Schröder and A. C. Schröder what required efforts from all three piano makers. Analysis of Schröder`s keyboards and their comparison with European pianos detects the high level of Russian pianos of the fi rst half of XIX century that absorbed the best European piano making ideas. Keywords: Russian piano makers, Russian piano manufacturing, J. F. Schröder, piano company, «C. M. Schröder», piano making, Russia, XIX century. Contacts: E-mail: conservatory-tuner@yandex.ru Pp. 43-49.