Charles-Valentin Alkan
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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Joseph Nolan on the organ works of Alkan
23rd Apr 2026
The organist talks about the first instalment of his new project - recording the complete organ works of the French Romantic keyboard sorcerer Charles-Valentin Alkan, known as much for his epic-scale piano works as for his organ compositions.
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Paul Wee on his dual career
12th Jun 2024
Ahead of his Wigmore Hall debut (playing Alkan's formidable Concerto for Solo Piano) this Saturday, the pianist and barrister talks about transferrable skills, the joys of making music with friends and colleagues, and his new recording of concertos by Henselt and Bronsart...
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Popular Works: Alkan
- Alleluia, Op. 25 (5)
- Barcarolle, Op. 65 No. 6 (12)
- Capriccio alla soldatesca, Op. 50 No 1 (5)
- Cello Sonata, Op. 47 (13)
- Concerto da Camera in A minor Op. 10 No. 1 (7)
- Concerto da Camera in C sharp minor Op. 10 No. 2 (10)
- Concerto da Camera in C sharp minor Op. 10 No. 3 (5)
- Concerto for Solo Piano Op. 39 (10)
- Deux petites pièces, Op. 60 (4)
- Esquisses (48), Op. 63 (6)
- Esquisses (48), Op. 63 (selection) (4)
- Études (12) dans tous les tons majeurs, Op. 35 (9)
- Grand duo concertant in F sharp minor, Op. 21 (6)
- Grande Sonate 'Les Quatre Ages', Op. 33 (13)
- Impromptus (4), Op. 32, No. 2 (5)
- 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 (6)
- Le Tambour bat aux champs, Op. 50, No. 2 (4)
- Le temps qui n'est plus, Op.31 No.12 (3)
- Marche Funèbre, Op. 26 (4)
- Marche Triomphale, Op. 27 (4)
- Nocturne in B, Op.22 (10)
- Petits préludes sur les huit gammes du plainchant (6)
- Piano Trio in G minor, Op. 30 (6)
- Preludes (25), Op. 31 (5)
- Premier recueil de chants, Op. 38 (5)
- Rondeau chromatique, Op. 12 (4)
- Salut, Cendre du Pauvre!, Op. 45 (5)
- Scherzo diabolico, Op. 39, No. 3 (5)
- Sonatine, Op. 61 (6)
- Super flumina Babylonis - Paraphrase, Op. 52 (7)
- Symphony (from Twelve Études in the Minor Keys), Op. 39 No. 4 - 7 (7)
- Toccatina, Op. 75 (6)
- Trente Chants: Suite No. 4, Op. 67 (4)
- Trois Grandes Etudes Op. 76 (7)
- Trois Morceaux dans la Genre Pathétique, Op. 15 (6)
- Trois Petites Fantaisies, Op. 41 (4)
- Twelve Études in the minor keys, Op. 39 (6)
- Une fusée - Introduction et Impromptu, Op. 55 (4)
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