La Trompette (other)
La Trompette may refer to: * La Trompette (musical society), a chamber music society that was based in Paris * La Trompette (restaurant) La Trompette is a restaurant located in Chiswick, London, opened by co-owners Nigel Platts-Martin and Chez Bruce's chef patron Bruce Poole. Since 2008, the restaurant has held one star in the Michelin Guide. La Trompette was closed in January 2 ...

La Trompette (musical Society)
La Trompette was a chamber music society based in Paris, founded by Émile Lemoine in January 1861. It has been credited with a major role in the propagation of chamber music in France. Performers included Camille Saint-Saëns, Louis Diémer, Paul Taffanel, Felix Weingartner, Pablo Casals, Harold Bauer, Wanda Landowska, Alfred Cortot, and Serge Koussevitzky. History The society was founded in 1861 by Lemoine and three fellow students at the École Polytechnique, who enjoyed playing quartets. The name "La Trompette" stemmed from a "non-sympathetic remark a teacher once made to quiet the quartet". With increasing popularity, it became a weekly private concert series. In 1878, the society moved to the hall of the Horticultural Society at 84 Rue de Grenelle, which seated 850. Lemoine kept the nature of the society informal, considering himself not a manager or director but a host, and members of the society not to be subscribers but his friends, even though an annual monetary contrib ...
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