Salle Gaveau, a concert hall on rue La Boétie since 1907

Salle Gaveau opened on 3 October 1907 at 45-47 rue La Boétie: a thousand-seat concert hall built by Étienne Gaveau, of the piano firm of the same name, at the company’s headquarters, to let its instruments be heard.

Jacques Hermant drew the plans in 1905. In the first months Camille Saint-Saëns played here, and in November 1907 Alfred Cortot, Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals gave all of Beethoven’s trios. Eugène Ysaÿe, Marguerite Long, Georges Enesco, Fritz Kreisler and, in 1917, Claude Debussy followed, and the Concerts Lamoureux made it their home.

The Gaveau firm went bankrupt in 1963 and the building was to make way for a car park. Two musicians, Chantal and Jean-Marie Fournier, bought the hall in 1976. Listed in 1992, it reopened on 8 January 2001 with the colours and ornaments of 1907. Jean-Marc Dumontet became its owner in 2024.

Between Miromesnil and Saint-Philippe-du-Roule métro stations, the hall hosts piano recitals, chamber music, orchestras and singers, acoustic concerts and comedy, with its own Café Gaveau.