Pleyel
See also: Pleyel (homonymy)
Pleyel is a manufacture of Piano S French.
History
It is founded in 1807 with Paris by Ignace Pleyel. His/her son Camille, pianist, replaces it starting from 1824. Frederic Chopin is the ambassador of the mark. The production assembles to more than 1000 pianos in 1834.The succession of Camille Pleyel is ensured by Auguste Wolf 1821 - 1887) which opens a workshop with Saint-Denis. It inaugurates the Salle Pleyel, concert hall, on October 18th 1827, street from the Saint-Honore Suburb in Paris. The latter is destroyed by a fire one year later.
From September 1923 in August 1927, the Pleyel House will publish the Revue Pleyel , a monthly musical review.
The vogue of the Pleyel pianos however undergoes a backward flow and the firm goes bankrupt in 1933. Thereafter, it is taken again by various owners, of which Gaveau and Érard. In 1997, the three marks are taken again by a holding.
It is since 2000 the property of the French Manufacture of pianos, which also repurchased Érard and Gaveau. Victim these last years of a very strong commercial competition of the Asian markets, it will close in 2007 its principal factory of Alès, open in 1973, to reinstall itself with Saint-Denis. The production will be reduced and centered on the top-of-the-range pianos and of signature.
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