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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...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    Grand sonata: The Four Ages) is a four movement sonata for piano by Charles-Valentin Alkan. The sonata's title refers to the subtitles given to each movement...
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  • columnist Ahmet Alkan, Turkish economist Alphonse Alkan (1809–1889), French printer, bibliographer, and author Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888), French...
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  • Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 "Suffocation" Franz Liszt Malédiction, S. 121 Charles-Valentin Alkan Le festin d'Ésope, Op. 39, No. 12, from 12 etudes in all the minor...
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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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  • to F-sharp minor for the middle section in the parallel minor. Charles-Valentin Alkan Concerto for Solo Piano: Allegretto alla barbaresca Johannes Brahms...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • first minuet of Franz Krommer's Concertino in D major, Op. 80. Charles-Valentin Alkan Prelude Op. 31, No. 12 (Le temps qui n'est plus) Symphony for Solo...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    who was also an amateur pianist, introduced him to the works of Charles-Valentin Alkan, Leopold Godowsky and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji when he was still...
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    Charles-Valentin Alkan composed his Cello Sonata in Paris in 1856, titled Sonate de concert pour piano et violoncelle (Concert sonata for piano and cello)...
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  • 28, No. 22 Cello Sonata, Op. 65 Polonaise in G minor, Op. posth. Charles-Valentin Alkan Scherzo diabolico, Op. 39, No. 3 49 Esquisses, Op. 63, no. 6 "Les...
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    wrestler Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888), French-Jewish composer and pianist Franco Valentín Flores (born 1993), Argentine footballer Hans-Valentin Hube...
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