Franz Streitwieser

Franz Xaver Streitwieser (pronounced Strite-vee-zer) (16 September 1939 - 8 November 2021) was a German American trumpet player. He owned and operated The Streitwieser Foundation Trumpet Museum, a museum of antique and vintage brass instruments. The museum of over 1,000 items operated from 1980 to 1995.

Education and music career Streitwieser was born in Bavaria in 1939. In 1961, he graduated from the Mozarteum University Salzburg in Austria. In 1963, he went to study in the United States and spent a year studying at the Juilliard School in New York. On the closure of the museum at Schloss Kremsegg in 2018, the collection was transferred to the Landesmuseum in Linz.

Streitwieser died in his sleep on 8 November 2021. About ten years before that, he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's.