Cité de la Musique
The Cité de la musique is a collection of institutions that are dedicated to the music and is part of the Parc de la Villette - Located in the district of La Villette in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. Built by architect Christian de Portzamparc and inaugurated in 1995.
Of buildings, institutions
At the Cité de la Musique include:
- An amphitheater
- A concert hall for 800 to 1000 spectators
- A museum with instruments
- Rooms for exhibitions
- Space for studios
- Room for important documents
The Cité de la musique also operates the traditional Salle Pleyel in Paris's 8th arrondissement.
Le musée de la Musique ( Music Museum )
The museum displays a collection of hundreds of musical instruments collected by the Conservatoire de Paris. There are mainly issued instruments of classical and popular music of the 17th century until today: lutes, violins from Italy (Antonio Stradivari, Guarneri, Amati Nicolò ), French and Flemish harpsichords, pianos of the French piano maker Sébastien Erard and Ignaz Pleyel, Saxophones by Adolphe Sax etc..
The instruments are exhibited by period and type. With headphones that you get at the entrance, visitors can hear comments on the instruments and it played music.
Guitars ( 17th century)
Octobass, Vuillaume (19th century)
Paris Philharmonic
The Paris Philharmonie ( Philharmonic Orchestra de Paris), a large hall for symphony concerts with 2400 seats, whose construction was delayed again and again, is to supplement the Cité until 2014. The Philharmonie is built by Jean Nouvel.
Currently, the Rieger organ builder builds a large organ for the great hall of the Philharmonie. The instrument will be completed in 2014. It is 91 registers, four manuals ( plus a 1 to 4 and the manual and the pedal freely dockable echo the work) and have pedal. The organ will be playable by two gaming tables from the main console ( with mechanical Spieltrakturen ) and a mobile gaming table (with electric Spieltrakturen ). The Registertrakturen will be electric.
- Couple Normal Couplers: II / I, III / I, III / II, IV / I, IV / II, IV / III, I / P, II / P III / P IV / P
- Resonnance - coupling: to I, to IV, to P
- Suboktavkoppeln: I / I, II / I, II / II, III / I, III / II, III / III, IV / I, IV / II, IV / III, IV / IV
- Superoktavkoppeln: IV / IV, I / P, II / P III / P IV / P
Exhibition
- 2011: Lénine, Staline et la Musique (Lenin, Stalin, and the music), the Museum of the Cité. There was a French-language catalog.