Word: pleyel
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...piece suffers from an identity crisis, although the crisis involves the composer and not any aspect of the music itself, which remains a brilliant showcase of the woodwinds and horns. Musicologists have yet to determine whether the theme was actually written by Haydn or by his student Ignaz Pleyel. Regardless of the nature of his piece's thematic roots, Brahms effectively unearthed a simple, hymn-like melody and molded it into an intricately layered set of variations. Even if the talents of the oboe, clarinet, flute and bassoon players did receive the spotlight in most of the theme's airy...
...Chapel Series--the Mannheim Quartet performs Pleyel, Rossini and Viotti. In the MIT Chapel at noon on Thursday...
...room in Madrid reading a letter from France. "You have been the eagle of the dance," it said, "and it is not indecorous for you to become the emperor of instruction." It ended with an invitation to head a dance academy at Paris' famed Salle Pleyel. Escudero accepted, but Old Dancer Escudero, a man who never bothered to count his money, had no cash to make the trip...
...Landowska, who hyphenated his name and identity to hers, and was a folklorist, an amateur musician, "an excellent cook" and her personal court jester, Landowska began collecting manuscripts and examining old harpsichords in all the great museums of Europe. She brought the results of her researches to the Pleyel firm of Paris. In line with her suggestions, they built an instrument, "capable of greater brilliance and more tonal variety -the first modern instrument to give full justice to the 16-foot register, that essential set of strings for a deep resounding bass...
Since Mme. Landowska came to the U.S., her favorite harpsichord, the Pleyel, made especially for her and inscribed with her name, has been found in a Bavarian castle...