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Pleyel

American  
[plahy-uhl, ple-yel] / ˈplaɪ əl, plɛˈjɛl /

noun

  1. Ignaz Josef 1757–1831, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer.


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“Napoleon” premiered at Salle Pleyel in Paris on Nov. 14, and is scheduled to be released in the United States and the United Kingdom on Nov. 22.

From Salon Nov. 21, 2023

Pleyel made the instrument, with serial number 14810, available to the Chopin, already seriously ailing at the time, in the fall of 1848.

From Seattle Times Dec. 9, 2021

His own Pleyel upright was impounded by customs, then hauled by donkey over the mountains, finally arriving shortly before he left Mallorca.

From Washington Post Nov. 18, 2021

For years before her first concert — one of six she gave at the Salle Pleyel in Paris early in 1946 — her teacher Marcel Dupré had stoked rumors of her outlandish talent.

From New York Times Nov. 2, 2021

"I presume you have an answer from Miss Pleyel?"

From In Direst Peril by Murray, David Christie

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