Cité de la musique
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The Cité de la musique (City of music) is a group of institutions dedicated to music and situated in the La Villette quarter of Paris in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. It was designed by the architect Christian de Portzamparc and opened in 1995. It consists of an amphitheater; a concert hall that can accommodate an audience of 800-1000; a museum of music, containing an important collection of classical music instruments dating mainly from the 15th to 20th century; and exhibition halls, workshops and archives. Part of François Mitterrand's Grands Projets along with the Parc de la Villette, the Cité de la musique reinvented La Villette - the former slaughterhouse district.[1]
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[edit] Future auditorium
A large 2200-2500 seat symphony hall had been planned for about 20 years, and is now expected to be completed by 2012. The announcement was made on March 6, 2006 by the French minister of Culture and communication Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres, the mayor of Paris Bertrand Delanoë, and the director of the Cité de la musique, Laurent Bayle, at a press conference concerning the reopening of the Pleyel Room, now associated with the Museum.
The cost of construction of the new auditorium may reach 170 million euros, and will be paid for equally by the French Government and by the Ville de Paris, who has not excluded the possibillity of funding from Région Île-de-France or the use of private financing[2].
==Museum of music==http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cit%C3%A9_de_la_musique&action=edit The Paris Museum of Music features a collection of several hundred musical instruments collected by the Paris Conservatory. It consists primarily of instruments used in classical and popular music from the 17th century to the present time: lutes, archlutes, Italian violins by makers including Stradivari, Guarneri, Amati, French and Flemish harpsichords, pianos by French piano-makers Erard and Pleyel and saxophones by Adolph Sax.
The instruments are organized by period and by type. Headphones provided at the entrance allow visitors to hear the short extracts of music being played on the instruments, along with a commentary.
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 Harpsichord, 1677, Bologne, Italie |
 17th century guitars |
 Harpsichords from the second half of the 18th centurty |
 18th century instruments with a hunting horn by Carlin |
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 Pianos from the beginning of the 19th century |
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- ^ Annette Fierro. The Glass State: The Technology of the Spectacle,http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cit%C3%A9_de_la_musique&action=edit Paris, 1981-1998. MIT Press. 2003. ISBN 026206233X Pg. 17.
- ^ « La Cité de la musique bientôt achevée », Le Monde 7 March 2006
