Marie Pleyel
Marie-Félicité-Denise Pleyel (née Moke; 4 July or 4 September 1811 – 30 March 1875) was a Belgian concert pianist.
Also recorded as Maria Felicite Pleyel
Marie Pleyel
Marie-Alexandre Alophe · This file comes from Gallica Digital Library and is available under the digital ID btv1b10524982n · Public domain
- Born
- 1811.
- Died
- 1875.
- Nationality
- France and Belgium.
- Occupation
- pianist, composer, music educator, university teacher and musician.
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Early life
Early life
With a father from Torhout in Flemish-speaking Belgium who was a language teacher, and a German mother who ran a lingerie shop in the 9th arrondissement, Pleyel was born in Paris and was trilingual. She studied the piano with Henri Herz, Moscheles, and Kalkbrenner. She gave her first formal recital at the age of eight, amazing the public with her young virtuosity. The famous critic François Joseph Fétis wrote that he had heard all the famous pianists, but that none conveyed to him a sentiment of perfection like Madame Pleyel ("...mais je déclare qu'aucun d'eux ne m'a donné, comme Madame Pleyel, le sentiment de perfection.").
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Marie Pleyel (4 September 1811 – 30 March 1875) was a pianist, musician, composer and music teacher. Marie Pleyel was born on 4 September 1811 in Paris and died on 30 March 1875. The place of death of Marie Pleyel is recorded as Brüssel by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek and as Saint-Josse-Ten-Noode (Belgique) by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Marriage and later career
Marriage and later career
Berlioz was desperately in love with Pleyel, and in 1830 they became engaged. While he was in Italy, she broke off the engagement to marry Camille Pleyel, son of Ignaz Pleyel, and heir to the piano manufacturing business. Pleyel was one of the most admired pianists of the 1830s. In 1848, she became chair of the piano department of the Brussels Conservatoire. She died in Sint-Joost-ten-Node, near Brussels.
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Life and career
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1875
Marie Pleyel died at Saint-Josse-ten-Noode.
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- MusicBrainz artist record for Marie Pleyel
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- 1.Both dates occur approximately equally: Blom gives July, Slonimsky gives September.
- 2.Fétis, François Joseph, Biographie universelle des musiciens et bibliographie générale de la musique, vol VII (Paris, 1860–1868).
- 3.Schonberg, Harold. The Great Pianists. Simon & Schuster. 204. 1987.
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