Charles-Valentin Alkan (French: [ʃaʁl valɑ̃tɛ̃ alkɑ̃]; 30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French composer and virtuoso pianist. At the height of his...

pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan, but like the latter, he was a scion of Jewish families from the Moselle region. In 1938 the octogenarian Siegfried Alkan became...

composer 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...

The following is a list of all the musical compositions of Charles-Valentin Alkan in order of opus number. Transcriptions are excluded from this list....

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of twelve etudes in all the minor keys by French-Jewish composer Charles-Valentin Alkan. The set opens in A minor with Comme Le Vent and goes through the...

railroad"), Op. 27, is a programmatic étude for piano composed by Charles-Valentin Alkan in 1844, frequently cited as the first musical representation of...

sonata: The Four Ages), Op. 33, is a four-movement piano sonata by Charles-Valentin Alkan. The sonata's title refers to the subtitles given to each movement...

Charles-Valentin Alkan wrote 25 preludes for solo piano or organ in 1844; they were published as his Op. 31 in 1847. These preludes span all 24 major and...

(Sketches), Op. 63, is a set of 49 short piano pieces by French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan and published in 1861. The pieces are divided into four books; the...

pianist. She has recorded works of Erik Satie, Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Carl Maria von Weber, Albéric Magnard...

adventurous musical contemporaries, such as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Charles-Valentin Alkan and Hector Berlioz. The Leipzig Conservatory, which he founded,...

piano preludes in the major and minor keys, including those by Charles-Valentin Alkan (Op. 31 for piano or organ), Ferruccio Busoni (Op. 37, BV 181),...

Concerto pour piano seul) is a 3-movement solo piano piece written by Charles-Valentin Alkan. The pieces are part of a 12 piece cycle entitled Douze études dans...

Dominant – G minor Submediant – A-flat major Subtonic – B-flat major Charles-Valentin Alkan Prelude Op. 31, No. 16 (Assez lentement) Symphony for Solo Piano...

Ferdinand Hiller. Another Wagner detractor was the French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan, who wrote to Hiller after attending Wagner's Paris concert on 25...

recorded a great deal of non-standard repertoire, such as music of Charles-Valentin Alkan, Leopold Godowsky, Georgy Catoire, Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté...

to the composer-pianists he admired, including Franz Liszt and Charles-Valentin Alkan, he also wrote orchestral, chamber and organ pieces. His harmonic...

Frédéric Chopin Prelude Op. 28, No. 24 "Storm" Polonaise, Op. 71 No. 1 Charles-Valentin Alkan "Le chemin de fer", Op. 27 "En rythme molossique", No. 2 from 12...

constructed from railway sounds Le chemin de fer (Alkan), Op. 27, an 1844 étude composed by Charles-Valentin Alkan Chemin-de-fer, the original version of the...

Solo Piano is a large-scale romantic work for piano composed by Charles-Valentin Alkan and published in 1857. Although it is generally performed as a self-contained...

Horseman" Prelude Op. 28, No. 23 "Pleasure Boat" Waltz Op. 34, No. 3 Charles-Valentin Alkan Prelude Op. 31, No. 11 "Un petit rien" Johannes Brahms Ein Deutsches...

Classics dedicated to Charles-Valentin Alkan. Maltempo is considered nowadays one of the most important and devoted advocates of Alkan ("With these passionate...

Chopin, his pupil Adolphe Gutmann, Charles-Valentin Alkan, and Alkan's teacher Joseph Zimmermann performed Alkan's arrangement, for eight hands, of two...

Mervyn Roberts Freda Swain John Tilbury John White this teacher's teachers Alkan (1813–1888) studied with teachers including Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann...

Robert Schumann wrote some Impromptus, published as Op. 5 (1833). Charles-Valentin Alkan composed two sets of four Impromptus, published as Op. 32 (No. 1...

piano, to form a class devoted to it in the Leipzig Conservatory. Charles-Valentin Alkan owned an Erard pedal piano made in 1853 and now in the Musée de...

minor Dominant – B minor Submediant – C major Subtonic – D major Charles-Valentin Alkan Le festin d'Ésope, Op. 39, No. 12, from 12 etudes in all the minor...

composers such as Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Felix Mendelssohn, and Johannes Brahms. This sonata has three movements:...

with short melodies or jingles. In 1844, French classical pianist Charles-Valentin Alkan composed Le chemin de fer ("The Railroad"), a programmatic étude...