Playel was the favorite of Chopin in the 19th century, and it was identified with French composers known as the impressionist musicians of the early 20th century — like Ravel and Debussy. Pleyel was founded in
” he told the Franco-American composerEdgard Varèse. This association of the arts is a theme that runs through the whole of the 19th century—it originated with the theories of the German short-story writerE.T.A. Hoffmann—but for Debussy it was a theory more sensitively expressed in ...