Louis-Constantin Boisselot

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Louis-Constantin Boisselot (11 March 1809 – 5 June 1850 in Marseille) was a French piano manufacturer and the great artisan of the creation of the house of Boisselot in Marseille.

Boisselot was born in Montpellier. He married Fortunée Funaro (1816–?), the daughter of a merchant at Marseille, on 25 November 1835. They had a son, Marie-Louis-François Boisselot (1845–1902), known simply as Franz, because he had as godfather Franz Liszt (1811–1886), a long-time friend of the family.[1]

In 1843, he patented a piano equipped with sympathetic strings sounding an octave above, an idea that would eventually lead to

Steinway re-introduced in 1874.[2] He succeeded his father Jean-Louis Boisselot in the manufacture of pianos in 1847,[3]
a business continued by successive generations of his family until the late nineteenth century.

The collections of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar include around fifty historical musical instruments. A highlight is the grand piano from the Boisselot & Fils workshop (Marseille 1846),[4] which was given to Franz Liszt as a gift and on which the compositions of the Weimar years were created. Liszt expressed his devotion to this instrument in his letter to Xavier Boisselot in 1862: “Although the keys are nearly worn through by the battles fought upon them by the music of the past, present and future, I will never agree to change it, and have resolved to keep it until the end of my days, as a favoured work associate”.[5]

Paul McNulty was chosen by Klassik Stiftung Weimar to make a copy of Liszt’s personal Boisselot 1846 piano.[6] The piano was made by 200 Liszt’s celebration as a project of the South German government. Both original and copy are property of Stiftung Weimar.

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  1. ^ Archives Musique, Facteurs, Marchands, Luthiers (21 October 2010). "Le Boisselots". Archives Musiques. Retrieved 15 March 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Ryberg, J. Stanley. "The 19th Century Piano—Coming and Going" (in French). Pianoren. Retrieved 15 March 2013.
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  4. ^ "Flügel der Klassik Stiftung Weimar". www.greifenberger-institut.de. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
  5. ^ Adrian Williams. Franz Liszt: Selected letters. Oxford University Press. p.572. From a letter to Xavier Boisselot. January 3, 1862. 
  6. ^ "Liszts Geheimnis". MUSIK HEUTE (in German). 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2021-01-15.


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