Charles-Valentin Alkan (Alkan)
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 136 years ago |
Date of birth | November 30,1813 |
Zodiac sign | Sagittarius |
Born | Paris |
France | |
Date of died | March 29,1888 |
Died | Paris |
France | |
Instruments played | Piano |
Children | Élie-Miriam Delaborde |
Siblings | Napoléon Alkan |
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ID | 2517838 |
Charles-Valentin Alkan (Alkan) Life story
Charles-Valentin Alkan was a French Jewish 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.