Biographies : 4
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BiographyLESUEUR, Jean-François
The early years and the Revolution Born at Drucat-Plessiel, near Abbeville, 15 Feb., 1760; died at Paris, 6 October, 1837. After a period at chorister at the prestigious maitrise at Abbeville, his first works of note were performed at the Concert Sprituel in Paris 1782-1783. He subsequently was to win the competition for the top church […]
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BiographyMOKE PLEYEL, Marie
Born Paris 1811, died St Josse-ten-Noode (near Brussels) 1875.Marie displayed a precocious talent for the piano, studying notably with Ignaz Moscheles and Frederic Kalkbrenner, and she was to perform her first public concerto, in Brussels, aged 14. In 1830, she began teaching the piano in a girls' school in the Marais in Paris and was […]
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BiographyPLEYEL, Camille
Born Strasbourg 1788, died Paris 1855.After studying the piano notably with his father and the composer Dussek, Camille began touring southern France (1811-1813) giving piano recitals and selling sheet music and pianos. Although he became officially his father's business partner in 1815, he nevertheless spent the whole of the Hundred Days in England, supposedly to […]
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BiographyPLEYEL, Joseph Ignaz
Joseph Ignaz Pleyel was born in Austria in 1757. That he was precociously successful is shown by the fact that he found patronage in Count Ladislaus Erdödy, a family related to the Esterhazys, who paid for lodgings and lessons with Josef Haydn in about 1772. Pleyel is thought to have had a close relationship with […]