Pleyel

[ plahy-uhl; French ple-yel ]

noun

1. Ig·naz Jo·sef [ig, -nahts , yoh, -zef], 1757–1831, Austrian composer and piano manufacturer.

Example Sentences

The concert, which took place in Pleyel's rooms, was financially a failure; the receipts did not cover the expenses.

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You remember how in his letters to Fontana he abuses Camille Pleyel in a manner irreconcilable with genuine love and esteem.

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Pleyel was the champion of intellectual liberty, and rejected all guidance but that of his reason.

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We females were busy at the needle, while my brother and Pleyel were bandying quotations and syllogisms.

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A parallel was drawn between the cataract there described, and one which Pleyel had discovered among the Alps of Glarus.

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