Charles-Valentin Alkan, French pianist and composer (died 1888)

Charles-Valentin Alkan

French composer and pianist (1813–1888)

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…