The Labenche Museum, French museum of Art and History, Brive, Correze, France: its collections, its exhibitions...the Labenche museum is associated with the art museum of Joliette, Quebec.

Presentation

Claude DEBUSSY 's piano

The baby grand piano, made of solid mahogany, that belonged to the composer Claude Debussy is exhibited on the ground floor of the museum.

M.Bardac, who studied with the musician and was himself a composer, inherited, at the death of his master and father-in-law in 1918, the copyright of his work and his piano.

This instrument, made by Blüthner (a piano maker in Leipzig) and dating back to the beginning of the century has the particularity of being equipped with the "Aliquot" system.

Before it was donated to the state collection it had been kept in Meyssac (Corrèze) since the second World War which was when M. Bardac settled in the region.