Word: pleyel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...Brahms's famous Variations on a Theme by Haydn should perhaps be retitled to credit Haydn Student Ignaz Joseph Pleyel. Student Pleyel may have written the theme which Brahms used for his variations; it wasn't Haydn...