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Carl David Stegmann (1751–1826) enjoyed a successful career as a musical polymath and performed professionally as a singer (appearing in the first German-language production of Mozart’s Don Giovanni at Mainz in 1789), harpsichordist and pianist, conductor, actor and theatre director as well as being a successful composer in his own right. He made a relatively small, but elegant contribution, to that significant 19th-century phenomenon, popular keyboard arrangements of orchestral and chamber works that made such repertoire widely accessible within a domestic setting. Although Stegmann produced only three sets of piano arrangements, the works he (and/or his publisher) selected for publication were of the highest quality: some 30 or so arrangements of Haydn’s Symphonies for solo piano, Beethoven’s Trios Op.9 for solo piano, and Mozart’s String Quintets for piano duet.
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