Pleyel-Museum Ruppersthal

Om museet

Ignaz Joseph Pleyel was born in 1757 in the old schoolhouse of Ruppersthal; he later made a career in Paris as a composer, music publisher and piano maker and founded the Salle Pleyel there. Lessons were taught in the building until 1894, after which it served as a residence and fell increasingly into disrepair.

Following the success of a play about Pleyel at the first Pleyel Festival in 1994, the International Ignaz Joseph Pleyel Society (IPG) campaigned to save the house. In 1996 the market municipality of Großweikersdorf donated the building to the society, and with the support of the province and the Lower Austrian building guild it was renovated by 1998. The museum opened on 5 September 1998.

At its centre are playable original instruments from the House of Pleyel: a fortepiano from 1831, a square piano, an upright piano, a harp and a harmonium. There are also scores and marionettes for Pleyel's opera "Die Fee Urgele". The exhibition room doubles as an intimate concert hall.

Since 2016 the nearby Pleyel Cultural Centre has complemented the offering with around 40 concerts a year, matinees, breakfast and wine hikes around Pleyel's birthplace.

Højdepunkter

• Original Pleyel fortepiano from 1831 (Opus 1614)
• Pleyel harp and square piano, all playable
• Tours with music on historic instruments
• Birthplace of the composer Ignaz Joseph Pleyel
• Concert series at the Pleyel Cultural Centre

Permanent udstilling

• Pleyel-Museum – The life and work of Ignaz Joseph Pleyel as composer, publisher and piano maker, shown with playable original instruments from the Parisian manufactory.

Grundlagt

1998

Ejer

Internationale Ignaz Joseph Pleyel Gesellschaft (IPG)

Entrépriser & rabatter

Museum tour €10, €9 for 20 people or more. Free admission with the Niederösterreich-CARD and for IPG members. Reduced group prices for concerts and tours by arrangement.

Tilgængelighed

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Børn og familie

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Transport & parkering

From Vienna via the A22 to Stockerau Nord, B4 towards Horn, at Großweikersdorf turn left at the first traffic light (museum sign); from St. Pölten via the S33 and S5 to Kirchberg or Königsbrunn.

Service & spisesteder

• Café

Pleyel breakfast at the Cultural Centre; lunch after matinees (in fine weather in the vineyard meadow, otherwise in the Benton Saal).

Arrangementer & udlejning

• Lokaler til leje
• Private fester
• Firmaarrangementer
• Bryllupper / vielser

Birthday parties, weddings, corporate events and seminars at the Pleyel Cultural Centre by prior arrangement; special matinees for groups.

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