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    Pleyel et Cie. ("Pleyel and Company") is a French piano manufacturing firm founded by the composer Ignace Pleyel in 1807. In 1815, Pleyel's son Camille...
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    Pleyel became a manufacturer of pianos; for more on the Pleyel piano firm, see Pleyel et Cie. Pleyel retired in 1824 and moved to the countryside about 50 km...
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    manufacturer Pleyel et Cie. The design work was divided in two: the main designer of the concert hall was Gustave Lyon, an acoustician, director of the Pleyel musical...
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    tower is 143 m. The tower has been built at the former location of the Pleyel et Cie factories. Several projects have been proposed since 1959, the one which...
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    Joseph Étienne Camille Pleyel (December 18, 1788 – May 4, 1855) was a French virtuoso pianist, publisher, and owner of Pleyel et Cie. He also ran a concert...
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    was a French piano maker, acoustician and inventor. He was head of Pleyel et Cie from 1887. Lyon was born in Paris in 1857, son of Jacob Lyon, a singing...
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    house in Paris. In 1807, he created near the future Carrefour Pleyel the famous Pleyel et Cie piano factory, which ceased production in 2013. The factory...
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    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...
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  • February 1887) was a French pianist and piano maker, from 1855 the head of Pleyel et Cie. Wolff was born in Paris in 1821. Aged fourteen he entered the Paris...
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    instructional films using the re-emergent early 20th-century French Pleyel et Cie pedaled metal-framed harpsichord made famous by Wanda Landowska. I feel...
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  • Piano: An Encyclopedia. New York City, NY, US: Taylor & Francis. p. 243. Pleyel website "Chopin's Favorite Piano Factory Plays Its Final Chord". NPR.org...
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    Rome, c. 1675 Harpsichord, Italy, late 17th century Harpsichord by Pleyel et Cie, Paris, 1928 Three historic harpsichords from the Hans Adler Memorial...
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    Salle Pleyel, a 3,000-seat concert hall, was built in Paris between the wars. It was commissioned in 1927 by piano manufacturer Pleyel et Cie and designed...
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  • the modern Piano (invented by the Italian Bartolomeo Cristofori) : Pleyel et Cie (double piano), Sébastien Érard (double escapement action), Jean-Louis...
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    its thirty-note pedal), Franck purchased a practice pedalboard from Pleyel et Cie for home practice to improve his technique, as well as spending many...
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    concert hall, the Salle Pleyel, was built in Paris in the interwar period. It was commissioned in 1927 by piano manufacturer Pleyel et Cie and designed by Gustave...
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    half of the 20th century. An example was the harpsichord produced by Pleyel et Cie at the request of Landowska. Starting in the mid-20th century, instruments...
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    Johann Sebastian Bach Francois Couperin Jean-Philippe Rameau Harpsichord Pleyel et Cie Portals:  Biography  Music  Classical music Schott, Howard (1979). "Wanda...
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  • this he abandoned when partially completed because the Paris firm of Pleyel et Cie was late in constructing the two-keyboard cimbaloms, later known as...
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    the work, he opted for asking Pleyel et Cie to build him a double piano, one appended to the back part of the other. Pleyel could eventually invent it,...
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    instruments; Kasriel and Pleyel et Cie in Paris, Richard in Étrépagny, Dumont in Les Andelys, Roethinger in Strasbourg. Alexandre Père et Fils [fr] also was...
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    men went to Paris in search of a builder, where they contracted with Pleyel et Cie to produce two instruments for their use. With these instruments, they...
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    The artist began playing the piano at a young age, starting with the Pleyel et Cie piano from his parents' home in Buenos Aires. Although Sanfilippo draws...
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    they studied for many years with Wanda Landowska and contracted with Pleyel et Cie to produce two instruments for their use. With these instruments, they...
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    Emánuel Moór Pianoforte from around 1927 by Pleyel et Cie...
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    Claude Mercier-Ythier (category Chevaliers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres)
    Wittmayer, where he perfected his skills. He also worked for Neupert and Pleyel et Cie. In 1962, Mercier-Ythier opened his first workshop in Paris, specializing...
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  • cinematographer Dariusz Wolski and editor Claire Simpson. Napoleon premiered at Salle Pleyel in Paris on November 14, 2023, and was released in the United States and...
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    building by Gustave Eiffel, 1850s. No. 252: Salle Pleyel, a concert hall named after Ignace Pleyel, an Austrian-born French composer and piano manufacturer...
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    3) (Ed. Augener et Cie., London) 4. Ballade, id. (op. 4) (Ed. Schott frères, Bruxels) 5. Pastorale, id. (op. 5) (Ed. Augener et Cie., London) 6. 2de...
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  • à paris D'almaine Danemann Danemann, W Daniël Davenport & Treacy Debain et Cie De Blaise Delmar Dassel Decker Brothers Dengler D'este Diapason Dietmann...
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