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Recognition of his peers
Some thoughts recorded in 1830 in la Gazette musicale testified to the progress of research and discoveries from the Pleyel Company at that time: "The reputation of Mr Pleyel’s pianos is now made worldwide and among artists. In regard to sound quality, these instruments leave nothing to be desired and even seem to outweigh English pianos, which have long been the manufacturing model. Mr Pleyel yet again found ways to improve their products by changing the keyboard system and ensuring their lightness.
In this period, the Pleyel Company received multiple awards including gold medals at the National Exhibition in Paris. Camille was raised to the status of Knight of the Legion of Honour in 1834.
On May 4th 1855, Camille died "in the middle of a true industrial success", wrote the newspaper L’Illustration. He received his latest award posthumously: a medal of honour at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1855.
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Ignaz Pleyel
Austrian composer and piano builder (1757–1831)
"Pleyel" redirects here. For the piano firm, see Pleyel et Cie.
Ignaz (Ignace) Joseph Pleyel (French:[plɛjɛl]; German:[ˈplaɪl̩]; 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.
Life
Early years
He was born in Ruppersthal [de] in Lower Austria, the son of a schoolmaster named Martin Pleyl.[3] Despite the fact that some sources claim that he had 37 siblings, he was the eighth and last child of his father's first marriage to Anna Theresia née Forster and he had eight more half siblings from his father's second marriage to Maria Anna née Placho.[4][5][6][7] While still young, he probably studied with Johann Baptist Wanhal, and from 1772 he became the p
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Pleyel's birthplace | Ignaz Pleyel was a highly talented composer of the second half of the 18th Century and beginning 19th Century. Around the year 1800 Pleyel belonged to the most popular and most often performed composers of Europe. Ignaz Joseph Pleyel was born on 18 June 1757 in Ruppersthal, Lower Austria, as the son of the village schoolmaster Martin Pleyl and his wife Anna Theresia. The support of a patron enabled him to be trained, first by Johann Baptist Wanhal, and then more thoroughly by Franz Joseph Haydn, before he became Court Conductor for his patron, Count Ladislaus Erdödy in Pressburg (present-day Bratislava), who made it possible for him to journey to Italy. |
Ignaz Joseph Pleyel | In 1783 Pleyel became Assistant Conductor, and in 1789 Cathedral Conductor of the Strasburg Minster. In 1788, having gained immense popularity as a composer, he married Françoise Gabrielle Lefebvre. In 1791 he accepted an invitation to conduct the "Professional Concerts" in London. Arrested by the revolutionary authorities, h Copyright ©peacafe.pages.dev 2025 |