Salle Pleyel in Paris was commissioned in the 1920s by the piano maker Pleyel et Cie. Gustave Lyon was the acoustician and main designer, and he entrusted the architecture to Jacques Marcel Auburtin, who died in 1926. André Granet and Jean-Baptiste Mathon completed the work. Building began on December 5, 1924 and finished in 1927. The article names no style.
The hall has a tapered plan and a curved ceiling, which influenced Alvar Aalto's church designs, and Le Corbusier praised its acoustics. It was a 3,000-seat hall originally. A fire on June 28, 1928 ravaged the interior, and capacity was cut to 2,400. A renovation from 2002 to 2006 reduced it to 1,913.
Stravinsky conducted the French premieres of Agon and Threni here. Crédit Lyonnais took over the property after a loan went unpaid, and the Cité de la Musique has owned it since 2009. Classical programming moved to the Philharmonie de Paris in 2015. The article gives no hours.
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