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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 his fame in the 1830s and 1840s he was, alongside his friends and colleagues Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt , among the leading pianists in Paris, a city in which he spent virtually ...
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.
A performer who became a hermit, Charles-Valentin Alkan wrote the most demanding piano works in history, says Malcolm Hayes.
Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-1888) was a French composer and pianist, living in Paris for virtually his entire life. During the 1830s and 1840s he was considered on of the leading virtuoso pianists in the city, performing alongside his friends and colleagues Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt.
Valentin Alkan (born Nov. 30, 1813, Paris, France—died March 29, 1888, Paris) was a French pianist-composer, a notable keyboard virtuoso, and one of the most enigmatic figures in 19th-century music.
Charles-Valentin Alkan (November 30, 1813 – March 29 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His compositions for solo piano include some of the most fiendishly difficult ever written, and performers who can master them are very few.
Charles-Valentin Alkan (30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French composer and one of the greatest virtuoso pianists of his day. His attachment to his Jewish origins is displayed both in his life and his work. [1]
1813-1832. (0-18yo | France, Belgium & The Netherlands) Charles-Valentin Alkan was the second of the six children of Alkan Morhange, a man described as intelligent and hard-working who supported the family as a musician and private music teacher.
Very unusually among the virtuoso composer-pianists of the 19th century, Charles-Valentin Alkan spent much of his life as an apparent recluse. He shunned the concert platform in favour of keeping his own company, reading, studying and creating some of the most spectacularly demanding piano music ever written.
The fourth through the seventh of Alkan’s Twelve Etudes in the Minor Keys Op. 39 comprise his Symphony for Solo Piano, while Etudes 8 through Continue Reading Major Discoveries: Eccentricities, Even For Alkan
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