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    Napoléon Alexandre Alkan, born Napoléon Alexandre Morhange (2 February 1826 – August 1906), was a French composer and music teacher. Alkan was born in...
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    Charles-Valentin Alkan and the music professor Napoléon Alkan. She was born Céleste Morhange in Paris on 25 February 1812 to Jewish parents, Alkan Morhange and...
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  • Napoléon Alkan (1826–1906), French composer Okan Alkan (born 1992), Turkish football player Siegfried Alkan (1858–1941), German composer Yakup Alkan (born...
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    Charles-Valentin Alkan (French: [ʃaʁl valɑ̃tɛ̃ alkɑ̃]; 30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French composer and virtuoso pianist. At the height of...
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  • Maurice Vieux (Professor of Viola, 1918– ) Napoléon Alkan (Professor of solfège, brother of Charles-Valentin Alkan) Marc Bonnehée (singing) Ernest Boulanger...
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    Conservatoire in 1845 at age 15, in the class of Napoléon Alkan (brother of Charles-Valentin Alkan). François Bazin and Fromental Halévy were among his...
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    his "resurrections" of composers are Alkan, George Onslow, Mélanie Bonis, Alexis de Castillon and also Napoléon Henri Reber, Alexandre-Pierre-François...
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  • (1803–1869) Louise Farrenc (1804–1875) Louise Bertin (1805–1877) Napoléon Coste (1805–1883) Napoléon Henri Reber (1807–1880) Auguste Pilati (1810–1877) Félicien...
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    musical contemporaries, such as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Charles-Valentin Alkan and Hector Berlioz. The Leipzig Conservatory, which he founded, became a...
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    his pupil Adolphe Gutmann, Charles-Valentin Alkan, and Alkan's teacher Joseph Zimmermann performed Alkan's arrangement, for eight hands, of two movements...
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  • (1779–1866) Jehan Alain (1911–1940) Paul Alday (c. 1763 – 1835) Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888) Joseph-Henri Altès (1826–1895) Jean-Claude Amiot (born 1939)...
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     247–250. Alkan 2022, p. 72. Hatcher & Martin 1984, p. 50. Momen 2004, pp. 97–98. Bausani & MacEoin 2011. Adamson 2007, p. 2. Smith 2000, p. 14. Alkan 2022...
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  • books of Technical Studies (S.146) between 1868 and 1880. Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888): Trois Études de bravoure (Op. 16); études in all 12 major keys...
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    Hiller. Another Wagner detractor was the French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan, who wrote to Hiller after attending Wagner's Paris concert on 25 January...
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    Lucca was annexed by Napoleonic France, and the region was ceded to Napoleon's sister, Elisa Bonaparte. Paganini became a violinist for the Baciocchi...
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  • brillante et facile for 2 violas (1860) Transcriptions Charles-Valentin Alkan: Sonate de concert for viola and piano, Op. 47 (1857, published 1858); original...
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    Joseph Philbrick Webster "Annie Lisle" w.m. H. S. Thompson Charles-Valentin Alkan Sonate de Concert in E, Op. 47 for cello and piano Douze études dans tous...
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    Piano, aged 6. It was dedicated to the infant Prince Napoleon Charles, eldest son of Louis Napoleon and Hortense. "Infant Prodigies". The Tatler. 16 Mar...
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    first-rate teacher; his pupils included Adolphe Adam, César Franck, Charles Alkan, Louis Lefébure-Wély and Georges Bizet. In 1849 Saint-Saëns won the Conservatoire's...
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    Knego (Dubrovnik, 1956), basketball player, Olympic and World champion Banu Alkan (Dubrovnik, 1958), female actor Dragan Andrić (Dubrovnik, 1962), water polo...
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  • (1862–1908) Franghiz Ali-Zadeh (born 1947) Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888) Siegfried Alkan (1858–1941) Esther Allan (1914–1985) Gregorio Allegri (1582–1652)...
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    John Beaver, Team No Sleep Heineken Dome Weekend 2: Donald Glaude, Audrey Napoleon, Save the Robot, Colette, Ranidu Lankage, Siren The Do LaB Weekend 1: Empire...
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    quoted it in his five-act grand opera Les Huguenots (1836); Charles-Valentin Alkan wrote an impromptu on this theme for pedal piano (in E♭ major Op. 69, 1866);...
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  • Nabucco, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida, Otello and Don Carlos Charles-Valentin Alkan 1813 1888 French composer and virtuoso pianist Antonios Liveralis 1814 1842...
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  • Instituto Biochimico Pavese Pharma, Jazeera Pharmaceutical Industries, APM, Alkan Pharma, Thymoorgan, Ribosepharm, Multi-Source Injectables, Promopharm, and...
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  • piano) Peter Lamb (1925-2013): Alkan Variations for two double basses and piano (2002). Based on the theme of Alkan's Le festin d'Ésope. Ronald Stevenson:...
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  • writer, journalist and politician (died 1884) 30 November - Charles-Valentin Alkan, composer and pianist (died 1888) December - Pauline Duvernay, dancer (died...
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    admiral and colonial governor (d. 1881) November 30 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (d. 1888) December 19 – Thomas Andrews, Irish chemist (d...
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    Second Empire Auber was appointed director of the chapelle impériale by Napoleon III in 1852, and composed a considerable amount of music for the emperor's...
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  • cello and piano Franghiz Ali-Zadeh Impromptus (2004) Charles-Valentin Alkan Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 30 (1841) Berta Alves de Sousa Piano Trio (1974)...
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