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Pleyel et Cie. ("Pleyel and Company") is a French piano manufacturing firm founded by the composer Ignace Pleyel in 1807. [2] In 1815, Pleyel's son Camille joined him as a business partner. The firm provided pianos to Frédéric Chopin , [ 3 ] who considered Pleyel pianos to be "non plus ultra". [ 4 ]
As of 2012, the only piano factory in Latin America. [18] Edelweiss [19] Cambridge: UK 1975–present: All upright and grand piano come by default as player pianos. [19] Estonia [20] Tallinn: Estonia 1950–present: Fazioli [21] Sacile: Italy 1978–present: Has its own line of artists. [22] Ferd. Thürmer [23] Bochum: Germany 1834–present
Ignaz (Ignace) Joseph Pleyel (French:; German:; 18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian composer, music publisher [1] and piano builder of the Classical period. [2] He grew up in Austria (then part of the Holy Roman Empire ), and was educated there; in his mid-twenties he moved to France, and was based in France for the rest of his life.
After this he gave up teaching to become the pupil and partner of the piano maker Camille Pleyel, who, being old and infirm, was looking out for a dependable assistant. Wolff entered Pleyel et Cie in 1850, became a member in 1852, and, on the death of Pleyel in 1855, succeeded to the headship of the company. [1]
Particularly important among the exhibits are two pianos manufactured by Pleyel et Cie, the company founded by Ignaz Pleyel. There is a grand piano, made in January 1831, marked Opus 1614. It is playable and has been used for commercial recordings. The museum also has a square piano made by the company, marked Opus 7134, acquired in 2003 ...
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After her agreement, Barnum commissioned the Chickering company to manufacture a custom grand piano for her nationwide tour, ultimately involving 93 performances. The piano was completed by August 1850; Lind arrived in September and the concert series began in Boston. Her pianist was Otto Goldschmidt, whom she married at the end of her tour.
Now the home of the seventh and eighth generation of the family, author Anne Butler and her daughter Chase Poindexter, Butler Greenwood is a simple, raised cottage-style plantation house filled with oil portraits, Brussels carpet, gilded pier mirrors, Mallard poster beds, fine china and silverware, a French Pleyel grand piano, and the area's finest original Victorian formal parlor, its twelve ...