Pleyel, Ignaz Joseph

Pleyel, Ignaz Joseph (1 June 1757, Ruppertsthal; 14 November 1831, Paris), pianist, studied piano under Wanhal and was then placed under Haydn’s tutelage. After these studies, he went to Rome twice, in 1781 and 1783, and then returned to northern Europe to become chapel master at Strassburg and to play a group of concerts in England. The latter engagement proved profitable, and he purchased the home in Strassburg belonging to Franz Richter, who had just died on 12 September 1789. Pleyel was…