The Salle Pleyel ( French pronunciation: [sal plɛjɛl] , meaning "Pleyel Hall") is a concert hall in the 8th arrondissement of Paris , France , designed by the acoustician Gustave Lyon together with the architect Jacques Marcel Auburtin, who died in 1926, and the work was completed in 1927 by his collaborators André Granet and Jean-Baptiste Mathon. Its varied programme includes contemporary and popular music. Until 2015, the hall was a major venue for classical orchestral music, with Orchestre de Paris and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France as resident ensembles.
11-780: An earlier salle Pleyel seating 300 opened in December 1839 at 22 rue Rochechouart. From 1849 to 1869, the impresario Charlotte Tardieu organized four chamber concerts a year at the hall. It saw the premieres of many important works, including Chopin 's Ballade Op.38 and Scherzo Op.39 (26 April 1841), Ballade Op.47 (21 February 1842) and Barcarolle Op.60 (16 February 1848), the second (1868) and fifth (1896) piano concertos by Saint-Saëns , Fauré's Violin Sonata No. 1 (27 January 1877), and Ravel 's Pavane pour une infante défunte and Jeux d'eau (5 April 1902) and Sonata for Violin and Cello (6 April 1922). A replacement 3,000-seat hall
22-597: A church in Helsinki (1929, unbuilt) but also for a church he designed in Wolfsburg , Germany (built 1960). 48°52′37.18″N 2°18′3.73″E / 48.8769944°N 2.3010361°E / 48.8769944; 2.3010361 Charlotte Tardieu Marie Charlotte Elisabeth d'Arpentigny de Malleville Tardieu (9 September 1829 – May 1890) was a French composer, concert pianist, and teacher who organized chamber recitals throughout Europe. She composed and performed under
33-733: A trio with cellist Alfredo Piatti and violinist Camille Sivori . Georges Onslow dedicated his Septet for Piano and Wind Instruments, Op. 79 to her. From 1849 to 1869, Tardieu organized four chamber concerts a year in the Pleyel and Erard concert halls in Paris, and the Sax concert hall in the Egmont Palace in Belgium. She formed at least one class to study classical piano repertoire with performers Casimir, Dorus, Gouffe, Lebouc, Maurin, and Ney. Tardieu's music
44-715: The hall underwent major renovation. The acoustics of the hall and the public and service areas were improved, and seating decreased from the post-fire 2,400 seats to 1,913. The Salle Pleyel has been owned by the Cité de la Musique since 2009. Its status as a classical music venue effectively ended in January 2015, when its programming was transferred to the newly-opened Philharmonie de Paris concert hall. An orchestral concert featuring live performances of music from various Bandai Namco Entertainment -produced video games, such as Dark Souls and Tekken , took place on 4 February 2017. The event
55-516: The interior of the hall on 28 June 1928 and the renovation cost made it impossible to repay the loan to Crédit Lyonnais bank , which eventually took over the property and reduced the seats to 2,400. They in turn sold the hall to Hubert Martigny in 1998. Stravinsky returned to Paris to conduct the French premiere of Agon in 1957, and of Threni in 1958, both at the Salle Pleyel. From 2002 to 2006,
66-465: The land at No. 252 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, near Place de l'Etoile, and was completed in 1927. The inauguration concert by the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire , with Robert Casadesus as soloist and Igor Stravinsky , Maurice Ravel , and Philippe Gaubert as conductors, included music by Wagner , Manuel de Falla , Stravinsky, Paul Dukas , Debussy , and Ravel. A fire ravaged
77-582: The names Charlotte de Malleville or Charlotte Tardieu . Tardieu was born in Roncherolles (today Roncherolles sur le Vivier). She studied music in Rouen with Jean-Amédée le Froid de Méreaux . On March 1, 1853, she married Amédée Eugène Tardieu . They had two sons, André and Jacques, and settled in Paris. André's son, also named André Tardieu , would become the prime minister of France in 1929. Tardieu presented piano recitals throughout Europe, and performed as
88-576: The soloist in piano concerti by Mozart and Beethoven. She appeared with other musicians such as flutist Vincent Dorus, clarinetist Adolphe Leroy, the Maurin Chevillard string quartet, Jean Méreaux, Camille Saint-Saëns , violinist Pablo de Sarasate , oboist Charles Louis Triebert, cellist Olive Charlier Vaslin, and oboist Louis Verroust. Well-known for her interpretation of Mozart, Tardieu specialized in older music and rarely performing music by contemporary composers other than herself. In 1864, she formed
99-463: Was attended by Motoi Sakuraba and Go Shiina , composers of the aforementioned games. In terms of influence, at the time of its completion, the concert hall was lauded for its acoustics by the leading modernist architect Le Corbusier . The interior form (tapered plan and curved ceiling) had an influence on the design of churches designed by the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto , firstly in his proposal for
110-574: Was commissioned in the 1920s by the piano manufacturer Pleyel et Cie . The design work was divided in two: the main designer of the concert hall was Gustave Lyon , an acoustician, director of the Pleyel musical instrument factory and an inventor of several musical instruments. But he entrusted the architectural design to the architect Jacques Marcel Auburtin, who died in 1926, and the work was completed by two of his collaborators, André Granet and Jean-Baptiste Mathon. The building work began on 5 December 1924 on
121-598: Was published by Henry Lemoine . Her compositions, all for piano, included: External links Roncherolles-sur-le-Vivier Roncherolles-sur-le-Vivier ( French pronunciation: [ʁɔ̃ʃʁɔl syʁ lə vivje] ) is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France . A village of forestry and farming situated in the Pays de Bray , just 5 miles (8.0 km) northeast of Rouen at
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