Pleyel et Cie

Pleyel et Cie ("Pleyel and Company") was a French piano manufacturing firm founded by Ignace Pleyel in 1807. In 1815, Pleyel's son Camille joined him as a business partner. The firm provided pianos to Frédéric Chopin, who once mentions that Pleyel pianos are «non plus ultra». Among other composers that were using Pleyel pianos were Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Ravel, de Falla and Stravinsky.

In the 1980s, the Pleyel company bought out two other piano companies Erard and Gaveau. In 2008 they introduced new pianos designed by famous designers. At the end of 2013, the company announced it would end manufacturing pianos in France. In September 2009 a piano maker Paul McNulty built a replica of the 1830 model of Pleyel's piano, which is now in a collection of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute in Warsaw. The replica was used in The 1st International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments in September 2018.

References

Other websites

A website on Pleyel pianos by Stephen Birkett of the University of Waterloo

History of Pleyel and their pianos with many pictures and details

Pleyel Pianos – The Piano in Polish Collections

Pleyel replica to make its concert debut

International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments website

Chopin's last piano

1800s establishments in Europe

19th-century establishments in France

1807 establishments

Musical instrument companies

Manufacturing companies of France