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Salle Gaveau

Salle Gaveau is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Salle Gaveau rather than just read about it. In short: The Salle Gaveau (French pronunciation: [sal ɡavo]), named after the French piano maker Gaveau, is a classical concert hall in Paris, located at 45-47 rue La Boétie, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It is particularly intended for chamber music.

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Reference excerpt

The Salle Gaveau (French pronunciation: [sal ɡavo]), named after the French piano maker Gaveau, is a classical concert hall in Paris, located at 45-47 rue La Boétie, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. It is particularly intended for chamber music.

Construction The plans for the hall were drawn up by Jacques Hermant in 1905, the year the land was acquired. The construction of the Gaveau building took place from 1906 to 1907. The vocation of this hall was chamber music from the beginning, and its seating capacity was a thousand, just as it is today. The hall was home to a large organ built in 1900 by the Cavaillé-Coll firm. This instrument with 39 stops (8 on the positif expressif, 10 on the récit expressif, 12 on the grand-orgue organ and 7 on the pedal) was subsequently installed in 1957 in the commune of Saint-Saëns in Normandy. The hall is a concert venue renowned for its exceptional acoustics.

Beginnings The hall opened its doors on 3 October 1907 for the concert of the Lehrergesangverein (Teachers' Choir of the city of Bremen with one hundred and forty performers). It immediately became a prestigious hall. Camille Saint-Saëns' concert in the Salle Gaveau [audience and orchestra from the stage]; then other famous musicians gave concerts there from the first months after the opening. The concerts Lamoureux, conducted by Camille Chevillard, Vincent d'Indy and André Messager, moved to Gaveau. On 5, 8 and 12 November 1907, Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals performed the complete trios by Beethoven. In the following years, the Salle Gaveau hosted Eugène Ysaÿe (21 January 1908), Lazare-Lévy (27 January 1909), Marguerite Long (11 December 1911), Georges Enesco (8 February 1912), Fritz Kreisler (21 and 28 April 1912), Wilhelm Backhaus (15 May 1912), Claude Debussy (5 May 1917).

World Wars During the First World War, the Salle Gaveau was used to give shows to soldiers and victims. However, it continued its original activity. During the interwar period, the hall hosted Charles Munch (28 October 1933), Wanda Landowska (7 November 1933), Rudolf Serkin (2 December 1933), and Yves Nat in 1934. The Lamoureux concerts continued to be held there. The same scenario occurred during the Second World War, when Gaveau was once again used as a gala venue, while hosting famous musicians such as Jacques Février, Pierre Fournier, Samson François, Paul Tortelier, and Raymond Trouard. The concert season continued after the war. In 1955, for example, the hall welcomed Reine Flachot, Pierre Bernac, Francis Poulenc, and Alexandre Lagoya.

Purchase by the Fournier couple In 1963, Gaveau went bankrupt. This led to the sale of the Gaveau building to an insurance company, and it was destined to be destroyed for the construction of a car park. Chantal and Jean-Marie Fournier, a couple of passionate musicians, bought the hall in 1976.

In 1982, the house was listed in the inventory and then classified as a Historic Monument in 1992. Chantal and Jean-Marie Fournier then sought to have it restored, the condition of the venue gradually declining. Subsidies were obtained, and the work was carried out by Alain-Charles Perrot the chief architect of the Monuments Historiques. The hall reopened on 8 January 2001. It was restored in a more sober way than before, i.e. by seeking to recover the colours and ornaments of 1907. In October 2024 it was announced that the concert hall had been bought for 8 million euros by Jean-Marc Dumontet, a businessman and arts promoter at the time owner of six venues in Paris (Bobino, le Théâtre Antoine, le Théâtre Libre, la Scène Libre, Le Grand Point-Virgule et Le Point-Virgule).

Works premiered at Salle Gaveau

Ravel: Valses Nobles et Sentimentales for piano, in 1911 Vierne: Troisième Symphonie (with Marcel Dupré organ), in 1912 Ravel: Piano Trio, in 1915 Debussy: Sonate pour violon et piano, with Gaston Poulet, in 1917 Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin, by Marguerite Long, 11 April 1919 Albert Roussel: Le Marchand de Sable qui passe, stage music, in 1919 Augustin Barié: Symphonie pour orgue, by André Marchal, in 1922 Georges Enescu: String Quartet No. 1, French premiere 18 October 1921 Schönberg: Pierrot lunaire, French premiere; conductor Darius Milhaud, vocalist Marya Freund, organizer Jean Wiéner, and translator Jacques Benoist-Méchin; 12 January 1922 Schönberg: Herzgewächse, world premiere; conductor Darius Milhaud, soprano Mathilde Veille-Lavallée or Renée Valnay (sources differ), Francis Poulenc on celesta, and concert organizer Jean Wiéner on harmonium; 30 March 1922 Arthur Honegger: Roi David, French premiere 15 March 1924 Vierne: Pièces de Fantaisie by Marcel Dupré in 1926 Guy Ropartz: Troisième Sonate pour violon et piano, French premiere by Georges Enescu violin and Marcel Ciampi piano, 21 April 1928 Enescu: Troisième Sonate pour violon et piano dans le caractère populaire roumain, French premiere with Nicolae Caravia piano, 28 March 1927 Stravinsky: Concerto pour deux pianos solos, with the composer and his son Sviatoslav Soulima, 1935 Francis Poulenc: Telle Jour, telle Nuit song cycle based on poems by Paul Éluard, by Pierre Bernac, 3 February 1937 Enescu: Troisième Sonate pour piano, by Marcel Ciampi, 6 December 1938 Messiaen: Vingt Regards sur l'enfant-Jésus, by Yvonne Loriod piano, 26 March 1944 Duruflé: Requiem, by the Orchestre National de France directed by Roger Désormière with Camille Maurane and Hélène Bouvier, in 1947 Poulenc: Sonate pour violoncelle et piano, in 1949 Pierre Schaeffer: Étude aux Objets, 30 June 1959 Jacques Castérède: Sonate pour piano, by Françoise Thinat, in 1967 Laurent Petitgirard: Quintette avec piano, in 1977 Rodion Shchedrin: Bribes Russes for cello (commissioned by the international Mstislav Rostropovitch competition), in 1990 Bruno Mantovani: Appel d'Air for flute and piano (commissioned by the international Jean-Pierre Rampal competition), in 2001 Philippe Hersant: Concerto pour harpe et orchestre (Le Tombeau de Virgile) by Isabelle Moretti, in 2006 Thierry Pécou: Concerto pour piano et orchestre (L'Oiseau Innumérable), by Alexandre Tharaud, in 2006 Oliver Twist, le musical after the novel by Charles Dickens, in 2016

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Salle Gaveau

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Salle Gaveau claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Salle Gaveau before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Salle Gaveau ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Salle Gaveau

In research: Salle Gaveau appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Salle Gaveau in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Salle Gaveau is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1905 establishments in France, 8th arrondissement of Paris, Buildings and structures completed in 1905, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Salle Gaveau outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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