Louis-Constantin Boisselot

Louis-Constantin Boisselot (11 March 1809 – 5 June 1850 in Marseille) was a French piano manufacturer. Franz Liszt was a long-time friend of the family and also his son's (Marie-Louis-François Boisselot (1845–1902)) godfather.Archives Musique, Facteurs, Marchands, Luthiers. "Le Boisselots". Archives Musiques. Liszt received a Boisselot piano as a gift and used it for creating the Weimar years.Alan Walker, Franz Liszt: The Weimar years, 1848-1861. Cornell University Press, 1987 A replica of the Liszt's personal Boisselot 1846 piano was created by 200 Liszt's celebration by a piano builder McNulty. Both original and the replica are property of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar.

Louis-Constantin Boisselot succeeded his father Jean-Louis Boisselot in the piano making business, which was successfully continued by next generations of the family until the late nineteenth century.

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 Klaviernachbau von Franz Liszt erklingt auf Landesausstellung (in German)
 Boisselot op. 2800, 1846 - a replica 
 Liszt's Boisselot piano in Weimar
 Klassik Stiftung Weimar. Musikinstrumente (in German)
 Schätze in Gefahr: Liszts Hammerklavier. Deutschland radio  (in German)

Category:1809 births
Category:1850 deaths
Category:Piano makers
Category:French businesspeople
Category:People from Montpellier