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{{Short description|German piano teacher and compiler of books of technical music studies (1810–1874)}}
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'''Louis Plaidy''' (28 November 1810, [[Hubertusburg]], Saxony{{spaced ndash}}3 March 1874, [[Grimma]], Saxony) was a celebrated German [[Piano pedagogy|piano pedagogue]] and [[:wiktionary:compile|compiler]] of books of technical music studies.<ref>''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music'', 2nd Edition 1975, Oxford University Press, London ISBN 0-19-311307-4</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=xCUXAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=%22Louis+Plaidy%22+%221810%22+%221874%22&source=bl&ots=btDl9uK0Iw&sig=KdxO5e1PdS4Oo6EPiGGgGfhyv6k&hl=en&ei=TYsnTP6GE8u1nAeSrpXiBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CB8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22Louis%20Plaidy%22%20%221810%22%20%221874%22&f=false Brother musicians: reminiscences of Edward and Walter Bache By Constance Bache]</ref>
'''Louis Plaidy''' (28 November 1810 – 3 March 1874) was a celebrated German [[Piano pedagogy|piano pedagogue]] and [[:wiktionary:compile|compiler]] of books of technical music studies.<ref name="Riemann 1908" /><ref>{{cite book|last1=Bache|first1=Constance|title=Brother Musicians: Reminiscences of Edward and Walter Bache|date=1901|publisher=Methuen & Company|location=London|page=[https://archive.org/details/brothermusicians00bach/page/87 87]|url=https://archive.org/details/brothermusicians00bach}}</ref>


==Life==
Plaidy was invited to join the faculty of the [[Leipzig Conservatory]] in 1843 by [[Felix Mendelssohn]], remaining there through 1865. Among his notable students were [[Dudley Buck]], [[Frederic Hymen Cowen]], [[Felix Draeseke]], [[Gustave Gagnon]], [[Edvard Grieg]], [[Michael Maybrick]], [[James Cutler Dunn Parker]], [[Oscar Paul]], [[Julius Röntgen]], [[Ernst Rudorff]], [[Samuel Sanford]], [[Arthur Sullivan]], and [[Hans von Bülow]]. See: [[List of music students by teacher#Louis Plaidy]].
Born in [[Hubertusburg]], Saxony, Plaidy initially focused on the violin, and toured as a concert violinist, but he later studied the piano, particularly the technical aspects of playing.<ref name="Riemann 1908" /> Plaidy was renowned for his ability to impart technical skills to his students.<ref name="Dubal 2004">{{cite book|last1=Dubal|first1=David|title=The Art of the Piano: Its Performers, Literature, and Recordings|url=https://archive.org/details/artofpianoitsper0000duba|url-access=registration|date=2004|publisher=Amadeus Press|location=Pompton Plains, N.J.|isbn=9781574670882|page=[https://archive.org/details/artofpianoitsper0000duba/page/275 275]|edition=3rd|chapter=Louis Plaidy}}</ref>


In 1843, [[Felix Mendelssohn]] invited Plaidy to join the faculty of the [[Leipzig Conservatory]] to teach the piano.<ref name="Riemann 1908" /> The Conservatory attracted many international students, including the original directors of the [[Oberlin Conservatory of Music|Oberlin Conservatory]] (founded in 1867 in Ohio, US), who went on to use Plaidy's piano methods.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Parakilas|first1=James|title=Piano Roles: A New History of the Piano|date=2002|publisher=Yale Press|isbn=9780300093063|page=[https://archive.org/details/pianorolesnewhis00para/page/126 126]|chapter=The piano lesson|chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/pianorolesnewhis00para/page/126}}</ref> Plaidy was [[Edvard Grieg]]'s first piano teacher at the Conservatory,<ref name="Carley 2006"/> although Grieg found Plaidy's style of teaching uninspiring.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Johansen|first1=David Monrad|title=Edvard Grieg|date=1938|publisher=Princeton University Press|page=35|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PrsHAQAAMAAJ|language=en}}</ref> Plaidy remained at the Conservatory until 1865, when he went on to teach piano students privately.<ref name="Riemann 1908" />
He published two books on piano pedagogy, ''Technische Studien fuer das Pianofortespiel'' and ''Der Clavierlehrer''.


Plaidy published a book on piano pedagogy, {{lang|de|Technische Studien für das Pianofortespiel}}, which was highly thought of and is still used today,<ref name="Riemann 1908" /><ref name="Dubal 2004"/> and a pamphlet, {{lang|de|Der Klavierlehrer}}, said to be of little worth.<ref name="Riemann 1908">{{cite book|last1=Riemann|first1=Hugo|translator-last=Shedlock|translator-first=J.S.|title=Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music|date=1908|publisher=Theo. Presser|location=Philadelphia, PA|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZAtKAQAAMAAJ}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Eschmann|first1=Johann Carl|title=J. C. Eschmann's Wegweiser durch die Klavier-Litteratur|date=1900|publisher=Gebruder Hug & Co.|location=Leipzig|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_c4s6AAAAIAAJ/page/n28 10]|edition=5th|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_c4s6AAAAIAAJ|language=de}}</ref>
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== References ==

He died in [[Grimma]], Saxony, aged 63.

==Notable students==
{{See LMST|Louis|Plaidy}}

Plaidy's notable students included:
* [[Dudley Buck]], American composer.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Orr|first1=N. Lee|title=Dudley Buck|date=2008|publisher=University of Illinois Press|location=Urbana|isbn=9780252032790|page=6|chapter=Chapter 1. Beginnings}}</ref>
* [[Hans von Bülow]], German [[Conducting|conductor]], [[virtuoso]] pianist, and composer.<ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Randel|editor1-first=Don Michael|title=The Harvard biographical dictionary of music|date=1996|publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, Mass.|isbn=978-0-674-37299-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand/page/117 117]|url=https://archive.org/details/harvardbiographi00rand/page/117}}</ref>
* [[Frederic Hymen Cowen]], British composer.<ref>{{EB1911|noprescript=1|wstitle=Cowen, Frederic Hymen|volume=7|page=346}}</ref>
* [[Gustave Gagnon]], Canadian organist and composer.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brassard|first1=François|last2=Smith|first2=Gordon E.|last3=Ménard|first3=Denise|title=Gustave Gagnon|url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/gustave-gagnon-emc|website=The Canadian Encyclopedia|accessdate=2018-01-21|date=15 December 2013}}</ref>
* [[Frederick Grant Gleason]], American composer and director of the Chicago Conservatory.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Howe|first1=Granville L.|last2=Mathews|first2=William Smythe Babcock|title=A Hundred Years of Music in America|date=1889|publisher=G.L. Howe|page=[https://archive.org/details/ahundredyearsmu01mathgoog/page/n708 698]|url=https://archive.org/details/ahundredyearsmu01mathgoog|chapter=Frederick Grant Gleason}}</ref>
* [[Edvard Grieg]], Norwegian composer and pianist.<ref name="Carley 2006">{{cite book|last1=Carley|first1=Lionel|title=Edvard Grieg in England|date=2006|publisher=Boydell Press|location=Woodbridge|isbn=9781843832072|page=9|chapter=Chapter 2: The Leipzig student and some English Contemporaries}}</ref>
* [[Leoš Janáček]], Czech composer.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Tyrrell|first1=John|title=Janacek: Years of a Life (1854-1914): The Lonely Blackbird|volume=1|date=2011|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=9780571261130|page=<!-- not in electronic edition -->|chapter=Musical studies: Leipzig 1879–80}}</ref>
* [[Michael Maybrick]], English singer and composer.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Pyle|first1=Ingram A.|title=Book Notes: A Monthly Literary Magazine and Review of New Books|volume=6|date=1901|publisher=Siegel-Cooper|page=488|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_9kRAAAAYAAJ|chapter=Music and musicians. The composer of "''The Holy City''" and "''The Star of Bethlehem''"}}</ref>
* [[James Cutler Dunn Parker]], American organist, educator and composer.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Lahee|first1=Henry Charles|title=The Organ and Its Masters|date=1903|publisher=L. C. Page|page=[https://archive.org/details/organitsmasterss00lahe/page/251 251]|url=https://archive.org/details/organitsmasterss00lahe|chapter=Chapter X: American organists}}</ref>
* [[Oscar Paul]]
* [[Julius Röntgen]], German-Dutch composer.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hartog|first1=Jacques|title=The Musiclovers Calendar|volume=1|issue=1|date=December 1905|publisher=Musiclovers Company|location=Boston|page=24|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hIcPAAAAYAAJ|chapter=Julius Röntgen}}</ref>
* [[Ernst Rudorff]], German composer.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Clive|first1=Peter|title=Brahms and His World A Biographical Dictionary|date=2006|publisher=Scarecrow Press|location=Lanham|isbn=9781461722809|page=377|chapter=Rudorff, Ernst (Friedrich Karl)}}</ref>
* [[Samuel Sanford]]
* [[Gustav Schreck]], German composer.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mason|first1=Daniel Gregory|title=The art of music : a comprehensive library of information for music lovers and musicians|volume=12|date=1917|oclc=3026244|publisher=National Society of Music|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/artofmusiccompre12masouoft/page/167 167]|url=https://archive.org/details/artofmusiccompre12masouoft}}</ref>
* [[Arthur Sullivan]], English composer.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Ainger|first1=Michael|title=Gilbert and Sullivan : a dual biography|date=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-19-514769-8|page=37|chapter=Chapter Three. 1858-1862. Sullivan at Leipzig; Gilbert at Law}}</ref>
* [[Franklin Taylor]], English pianist and piano pedagogue<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |date=2001 |entry=Taylor, Franklin |encyclopedia=Grove Music Online|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.27588|author=George Grove, revised by Jean Mary Allan }}</ref>

==Works==
* {{cite book|title=Technische Studien: für das Pianofortespiel|date=1868|publisher=Breitkopf & Härtel|location=Leipzig|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wz1gAAAAcAAJ|language=de}}
* {{cite book|title=Der Klavierlehrer|date=1874|publisher=Breitkopf & Härtel|trans-title=The piano teacher|location=Leipzig|language=de}}

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Latest revision as of 05:33, 14 May 2024

Louis Plaidy
Photo of Louis Plaidy wearing a long coat, standing by a chair.
Born(1810-11-28)November 28, 1810
Hubertusburg, Saxony
DiedMarch 3, 1874(1874-03-03) (aged 63)
Grimma, Saxony
NationalityGerman
OccupationPiano pedagogue
Notable workTechnische Studien: für das Pianofortespiel

Louis Plaidy (28 November 1810 – 3 March 1874) was a celebrated German piano pedagogue and compiler of books of technical music studies.[1][2]

Life

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Born in Hubertusburg, Saxony, Plaidy initially focused on the violin, and toured as a concert violinist, but he later studied the piano, particularly the technical aspects of playing.[1] Plaidy was renowned for his ability to impart technical skills to his students.[3]

In 1843, Felix Mendelssohn invited Plaidy to join the faculty of the Leipzig Conservatory to teach the piano.[1] The Conservatory attracted many international students, including the original directors of the Oberlin Conservatory (founded in 1867 in Ohio, US), who went on to use Plaidy's piano methods.[4] Plaidy was Edvard Grieg's first piano teacher at the Conservatory,[5] although Grieg found Plaidy's style of teaching uninspiring.[6] Plaidy remained at the Conservatory until 1865, when he went on to teach piano students privately.[1]

Plaidy published a book on piano pedagogy, Technische Studien für das Pianofortespiel, which was highly thought of and is still used today,[1][3] and a pamphlet, Der Klavierlehrer, said to be of little worth.[1][7]

He died in Grimma, Saxony, aged 63.

Notable students

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See: List of music students by teacher: N to Q#Louis Plaidy.

Plaidy's notable students included:

Works

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  • Technische Studien: für das Pianofortespiel (in German). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. 1868.
  • Der Klavierlehrer [The piano teacher] (in German). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel. 1874.

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f Riemann, Hugo (1908). Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music. Translated by Shedlock, J.S. Philadelphia, PA: Theo. Presser.
  2. ^ Bache, Constance (1901). Brother Musicians: Reminiscences of Edward and Walter Bache. London: Methuen & Company. p. 87.
  3. ^ a b Dubal, David (2004). "Louis Plaidy". The Art of the Piano: Its Performers, Literature, and Recordings (3rd ed.). Pompton Plains, N.J.: Amadeus Press. p. 275. ISBN 9781574670882.
  4. ^ Parakilas, James (2002). "The piano lesson". Piano Roles: A New History of the Piano. Yale Press. p. 126. ISBN 9780300093063.
  5. ^ a b Carley, Lionel (2006). "Chapter 2: The Leipzig student and some English Contemporaries". Edvard Grieg in England. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. p. 9. ISBN 9781843832072.
  6. ^ Johansen, David Monrad (1938). Edvard Grieg. Princeton University Press. p. 35.
  7. ^ Eschmann, Johann Carl (1900). J. C. Eschmann's Wegweiser durch die Klavier-Litteratur (in German) (5th ed.). Leipzig: Gebruder Hug & Co. p. 10.
  8. ^ Orr, N. Lee (2008). "Chapter 1. Beginnings". Dudley Buck. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. p. 6. ISBN 9780252032790.
  9. ^ Randel, Don Michael, ed. (1996). The Harvard biographical dictionary of music. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-674-37299-3.
  10. ^  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cowen, Frederic Hymen". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 346.
  11. ^ Brassard, François; Smith, Gordon E.; Ménard, Denise (15 December 2013). "Gustave Gagnon". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2018-01-21.
  12. ^ Howe, Granville L.; Mathews, William Smythe Babcock (1889). "Frederick Grant Gleason". A Hundred Years of Music in America. G.L. Howe. p. 698.
  13. ^ Tyrrell, John (2011). "Musical studies: Leipzig 1879–80". Janacek: Years of a Life (1854-1914): The Lonely Blackbird. Vol. 1. Faber & Faber. ISBN 9780571261130.
  14. ^ Pyle, Ingram A. (1901). "Music and musicians. The composer of "The Holy City" and "The Star of Bethlehem"". Book Notes: A Monthly Literary Magazine and Review of New Books. Vol. 6. Siegel-Cooper. p. 488.
  15. ^ Lahee, Henry Charles (1903). "Chapter X: American organists". The Organ and Its Masters. L. C. Page. p. 251.
  16. ^ Hartog, Jacques (December 1905). "Julius Röntgen". The Musiclovers Calendar. Vol. 1. Boston: Musiclovers Company. p. 24.
  17. ^ Clive, Peter (2006). "Rudorff, Ernst (Friedrich Karl)". Brahms and His World A Biographical Dictionary. Lanham: Scarecrow Press. p. 377. ISBN 9781461722809.
  18. ^ Mason, Daniel Gregory (1917). The art of music : a comprehensive library of information for music lovers and musicians. Vol. 12. New York: National Society of Music. p. 167. OCLC 3026244.
  19. ^ Ainger, Michael (2002). "Chapter Three. 1858-1862. Sullivan at Leipzig; Gilbert at Law". Gilbert and Sullivan : a dual biography. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-19-514769-8.
  20. ^ George Grove, revised by Jean Mary Allan (2001). "Taylor, Franklin". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.27588.
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