Louis Plaidy was a celebrated German piano pedagogue

Piano pedagogy

Piano pedagogy is the study of the teaching of piano playing. Whereas the professional field of music education pertains to the teaching of music in school classrooms or group settings, piano pedagogy focuses on the teaching of musical skills to piano students on the level of the individual...

 and compiler of books of technical music studies.

Plaidy was invited to join the faculty of the Leipzig Conservatory in 1843 by Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

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, remaining there through 1865. Among his notable students were Dudley Buck

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, Frederic Hymen Cowen

Frederic Hymen Cowen

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, Felix Draeseke

Felix Draeseke

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, Gustave Gagnon

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, Edvard Grieg

Edvard Grieg

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, Michael Maybrick

Michael Maybrick

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, James Cutler Dunn Parker

James Cutler Dunn Parker

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, Julius Röntgen

Julius Röntgen

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, Ernst Rudorff

Ernst Rudorff

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, Samuel Sanford

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, Arthur Sullivan

Arthur Sullivan

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, and Hans von Bülow

Hans von Bülow

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He published two books on piano pedagogy, Technische Studien fuer das Pianofortespiel and Der Clavierlehrer.