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...
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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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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...
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Alkan may refer to: Charles-Valentin Alkan Alkan, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Alkan, Qom Alkan, Gülşehir, in Gülşehir district Alkan (name), list of people...
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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...
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(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...
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railroad"), Op. 27, is a programmatic étude for piano composed by Charles-Valentin Alkan in 1844, frequently cited as the first musical representation of...
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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...
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Douze études dans tous les tons mineurs, Opus 39 (category Compositions by Charles-Valentin Alkan)
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...
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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...
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pianist. She has recorded works of Erik Satie, Ludwig van Beethoven, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Carl Maria von Weber, Albéric Magnard...
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adventurous musical contemporaries, such as Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Charles-Valentin Alkan and Hector Berlioz. The Leipzig Conservatory, which he founded,...
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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),...
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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...
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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...
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recorded a great deal of non-standard repertoire, such as music of Charles-Valentin Alkan, Leopold Godowsky, Georgy Catoire, Sophie Carmen Eckhardt-Gramatté...
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composers such as Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Felix Mendelssohn, and Johannes Brahms. This sonata has three movements:...
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Ferdinand Hiller. Another Wagner detractor was the French composer Charles-Valentin Alkan, who wrote to Hiller after attending Wagner's Paris concert on 25...
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to the composer-pianists he admired, including Franz Liszt and Charles-Valentin Alkan, he also wrote orchestral, chamber and organ pieces. His harmonic...
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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...
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Classics dedicated to Charles-Valentin Alkan. Maltempo is considered nowadays one of the most important and devoted advocates of Alkan ("With these passionate...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Chopin, his pupil Adolphe Gutmann, Charles-Valentin Alkan, and Alkan's teacher Joseph Zimmermann performed Alkan's arrangement, for eight hands, of two...
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bibliographer, and author Banu Alkan (born 1958), Turkish-Croatian actress Céleste Alkan (1812–1897), French musician Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888), French...
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Mervyn Roberts Freda Swain John Tilbury John White this teacher's teachers Alkan (1813–1888) studied with teachers including Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann...
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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...
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Czerny 5 sets: Charles-Valentin Alkan, Joachim Andersen 4 sets: Richard Hofmann, Franciszek Zachara 3 sets: Adolf von Henselt, Charles Koechlin, Christian...
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