Pleyel Museum
The Pleyel Museum Ruppersthal is located in the village of Ruppersthal in the market town of Großweikersdorf in the Tulln district in Lower Austria . The former school building and birthplace of the composer and piano maker Ignaz Pleyel (1757–1831) is now used as a museum and is a listed building .
history
The use as a school building was ended in 1894, after which the house was still used for residential purposes. The desolate building was rented in 1995 to the Ignaz Pleyel Theaterverein Ruppersthal in 1908 and donated to the International Ignaz Joseph Pleyel Society in 1996 by the community under Mayor Josef Erber. The building was restored from 1996 to 1998 with the training center of the state guild of the building trade in Schloss Haindorf with the building guild master Manfred Schuster. The museum was opened on September 5, 1998 with Governor Erwin Pröll .
museum
The museum is dedicated to the life and work of the composer. It enables insights into his compositional work and it also documents Pleyel's work as a piano maker . The showpieces of the exhibition are two Pleyel pianos: a fortepiano from 1831 (the piano has the opus number 1614) and a square piano (opus number 7134). The museum also functions as a performance space for concerts and chamber music performances in which the music of Pleyel and his contemporaries is performed.
Web links
- International Ignaz Joseph Pleyel Society: History page about the Pleyel Museum
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 48 ° 27 '59.2 " N , 15 ° 56' 48.7" E