Wilhelm learned cabinetmaking-alone among his brothers in not attending university-and in 1812 moved to Vienna where he worked as a fine furniture maker. He was the third of six sons of Karl Gotthilf Lindemann, a preacher and rector of the municipal school. William Lindeman was born Wilhelm Lindemann on Main Jöhstadt, in eastern Saxony on the Bohemian border. The trademark was most recently owned by Burgett Brothers, Inc., owners of manufacturers Mason & Hamlin and PianoDisk, and who own a number of trademarks from old American piano manufacturers.

The Lindeman & Sons name itself was eventually sold and was controlled by different companies after 1890, including the Wanamakers department store and the piano manufacturing conglomerate Aeolian-American, which also controlled H. Lindeman and the Melodigrand Corporation, both of New York Herman is best known for patenting the firm's unusually shaped 'Cycloid' square piano, and with his brother Ferdinand, and son George, he headed the short-lived Lindeman Piano Company of Cincinnati, Ohio. Henry founded several independent piano manufacturing companies, the longest lived of which were Henry & S. William's sons eventually became partners in the firm, reorganizing first as Lindeman & Son and then Lindeman & Sons and each of them worked in the industry following their father's death. American piano historian Daniel Spillane credited him as one of the first successful immigrant German piano makers in the United States. The concern was founded by William Lindeman (1794–1875) on a small scale in Dresden in about 1822, and reestablished by him in New York City in 1835 or 1836, where it grew to a medium size within twenty years. Lindeman was a name used by a series of piano manufacturers in New York in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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