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Charles-Valentin Alkan

1813 - 1888

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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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Charles-Valentin Alkan is the 205th most popular musician (down from 163rd in 2019), the 1,085th most popular biography from France (down from 978th in 2019) and the 8th most popular French Musician.

Charles-Valentin Alkan was a French pianist and composer. He was most famous for his virtuosic skill at the piano, and for composing pieces that are among the most difficult in all of music.

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Among musicians, Charles-Valentin Alkan ranks 205 out of 3,175. Before him are Emil Gilels, Wilhelm Kempff, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Stan Getz, György Cziffra, and Mike Shinoda. After him are Maria João Pires, John Paul Jones, Giovanni Battista Martini, Lisa Gerrard, Willie Nelson, and Steve Harris.

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Among people born in 1813, Charles-Valentin Alkan ranks 12. Before him are Claude Bernard, Ivar Aasen, Petar II Petrović-Njegoš, Franz Miklosich, Georg Büchner, and Baron Alexander von Bach. After him are Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters, Henry Bessemer, Harriet Jacobs, Theophil Hansen, James Dwight Dana, and Thomas Andrews. Among people deceased in 1888, Charles-Valentin Alkan ranks 13. Before him are Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria, Carl Zeiss, Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine, Nikolay Przhevalsky, François Achille Bazaine, and Anton Mauve. After him are Paul Langerhans, Johannes Zukertort, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, Theodor Storm, Ascanio Sobrero, and Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen.

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In France

Among people born in France, Charles-Valentin Alkan ranks 1,085 out of 6,770. Before him are Edgar Morin (1921), Philibert II, Duke of Savoy (1480), Antoine Arnauld (1612), Claude Joseph Vernet (1714), Félix d'Herelle (1873), and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749). After him are Marcel Carné (1906), Henri Giraud (1879), Adelaide of Aquitaine (950), Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre (1749), Danielle Darrieux (1917), and André-Hercule de Fleury (1653).

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Among MUSICIANS In France

Among musicians born in France, Charles-Valentin Alkan ranks 8. Before him are Richard Clayderman (1953), Nadia Boulanger (1887), Thomas Bangalter (1), David Guetta (1967), Arnaut Daniel (1150), and Paul Mauriat (1925). After him are Stéphane Grappelli (1908), Jean-Marie Leclair (1697), Georges Prêtre (1924), Louis Vierne (1870), Émile Waldteufel (1837), and Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665).

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