Marie Pleyel

Marie-Félicité-Denise Pleyel (née Moke; 4 July or 4 September 1811[1] – 30 March 1875) was a Belgian concert pianist.

With a father from Torhout in Flemish-speaking Belgium who was a language teacher, and a German mother who ran a lingerie shop in the 9th arrondissement, Pleyel was born in Paris and was trilingual.

She studied the piano with Henri Herz, Moscheles, and Kalkbrenner.

She gave her first formal recital at the age of eight, amazing the public with her young virtuosity.

The famous critic François Joseph Fétis wrote that he had heard all the famous pianists, but that none conveyed to him a sentiment of perfection like Madame Pleyel ("...mais je déclare qu'aucun d'eux ne m'a donné, comme Madame Pleyel, le sentiment de perfection.").

Pleyel's grave in 2021.
Tomb in Laeken Cemetery , Brussels