Louis Plaidy

Deceased Person

1810 – 1874

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Who was Louis Plaidy?

Louis Plaidy was a celebrated German piano pedagogue and compiler of books of technical music studies.

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.

He published two books on piano pedagogy, Technische Studien fuer das Pianofortespiel and Der Clavierlehrer.

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Born
Nov 28, 1810
Hubertusburg
Died
Mar 3, 1874
Grimma

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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