Ignaz Pleyel, Austrian-French composer and piano builder (born 1757)

Ignaz Pleyel

Austrian composer and piano builder (1757–1831)

Ignaz (Ignace) Joseph Pleyel was an Austrian composer, music publisher and piano builder of the Classical period. He grew up in Austria, and was educated there; in his mid-twenties he moved to France, and was based in France for the rest of his life.