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A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Pleyel, Ignaz
PLEYEL, Ignaz Joseph, a most prolific instrumental composer, born June 1, 1757, the 24th child of the village schoolmaster at Ruppersthal in Lower Austria. His musical talent showed itself early. He learnt to play the clavier and violin in Vienna, the former from Van Hal, or Wanhall, and found a patron in the then Count Erdödy, who put him under Haydn, as a pupil composition, in 1774. After remaining several with Haydn he went to Italy, where he fully imbibed the taste of the Italian opera, and lived in intercourse with the best singers and composers. In 1783 he was called to Strassburg as Capellmeister to the cathedral. In 1791 he was invited to London to take the control of the professional Concerts of the following season. He was probably not aware of the fact that his appointment was a blow aimed at Salomon, and that he would be in competition with Haydn. The blow, however, missed its aim. Pleyel conducted his first Professional Concert Feb. 13, 1792. Haydn was present, and the programme contained 3 symphonies, by Haydn, Mozart, and Pleyel himself (composed expressly for the concert). On May 14 he took his benefit. The visit was a satisfactory one, both in an artistic and a pecuniary point of view. On h
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Ignaz Pleyel
Ignace Joseph Pleyel (French: [plɛjɛl]; German: [ˈplaɪl̩]; 18 June 1757 – 14 November 1831) was an Austrian-Frenchcomposer and piano builder.[1]
Life
[change | change source]Pleyel was born in Ruppersthal in Austria in a family of a schoolmaster Martin Pleyl.[2] In 1772 he became a student of Joseph Haydn.
In 1783 Pleyel moved to Strasbourg to work with Franz Xaver Richter, the maître de chapelle at the Strasbourg Cathedral.[3] In 1788 Pleyel married Françoise-Gabrielle Lefebvre and had four children with her. In 1797 he started a business as a music publisher ("Maison Pleyel") in Paris.[4] The company published about 4,000 works during 39 years.
Pleyel composed more than 40 symphonies, 70 string quartets, several operas, piano solo pieces and chamber music.[5] He also was a founder of a piano firm Pleyel et Cie that was continued by Pleyel's son Camille. The firm provided pianos for Frédéric Chopin. The composer was very fond of Pleyel's instruments.[6] In 2009 a replica of the 1830 model of Pleyel's piano was built. Now it is in the collection of Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw.[7] It was also used in the 1st International Chopin Piano Competition on Period Instruments.
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Pleyel, Ignaz Joseph
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