Charles-Valentin Alkan (Composer)
Born: 30th November 1813, Paris, France
Died: 29th March 1888, Paris, France
Nationality: French
Charles-Valentin Alkan 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 his entire life.
Alkan earned many awards at the Conservatoire de Paris, which he entered before he was six. His career in the salons and concert halls of Paris was marked by his occasional long withdrawals from public performance, for personal reasons. Although he had a wide circle of friends and acquaintances in the Parisian artistic world, including Eugène Delacroix and George Sand, from 1848 he began to adopt a reclusive life style, while continuing with his compositions – virtually all of which are for the keyboard.
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Popular Works: Alkan
- Alleluia, Op. 25 (4)
- Barcarolle, Op. 65 No. 6 (10)
- Benedictus (3)
- Capriccio alla soldatesca, Op. 50 No 1 (5)
- Cello Sonata, Op. 47 (12)
- Concerto da Camera in A minor Op. 10 No. 1 (6)
- Concerto da Camera in C sharp minor Op. 10 No. 2 (9)
- Concerto da Camera in C sharp minor Op. 10 No. 3 (4)
- Concerto for Solo Piano Op. 39 (10)
- Deux Nocturnes, Op. 57 (5)
- Esquisses (48), Op. 63 (5)
- Esquisses (48), Op. 63 (selection) (4)
- Études (12) dans tous les tons majeurs, Op. 35 (10)
- Études (12) dans tous les tons majeurs, Op. 35 (selection) (3)
- Grand duo concertant in F sharp minor, Op. 21 (5)
- Grande Sonate 'Les Quatre Ages', Op. 33 (12)
- La chanson de la folle au bord de la mer, Op.31 no.8 (8)
- Le chemin de fer, Op. 27 (6)
- LE FESTIN D'ESOPE Op. 39 No. 12 (5)
- Le Tambour bat aux champs, Op. 50, No. 2 (6)
- Le temps qui n'est plus, Op.31 No.12 (3)
- Nocturne in B, Op.22 (11)
- Petit Conte (4)
- Petits préludes sur les huit gammes du plainchant (4)
- Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 30 (5)
- Preludes (25), Op. 31 (5)
- Preludes (25), Op. 31 (selection) (3)
- Premier recueil de chants, Op. 38 (6)
- Salut, Cendre du Pauvre!, Op. 45 (4)
- Scherzo diabolico, Op. 39, No. 3 (5)
- Sonatine, Op. 61 (5)
- Super flumina Babylonis - Paraphrase, Op. 52 (6)
- Symphony (from Twelve Études in the Minor Keys), Op. 39 No. 4 - 7 (7)
- Toccatina, Op. 75 (7)
- Trente Chants: Suite No. 4, Op. 67 (4)
- Trois Grandes Etudes Op. 76 (6)
- Trois Morceaux dans la Genre Pathétique, Op. 15 (6)
- Trois Petites Fantaisies, Op. 41 (4)
- Twelve Études in the minor keys, Op. 39 (7)
- Une fusée - Introduction et Impromptu, Op. 55 (4)
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