Alkan / Ronald Smith.

Author/creator Smith, Ronald
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon : Kahn and Averill, 1976-1987.
Description2 volumes : illustrations, facsimiles, genealogical table, music, portraits ; 23 cm
Subjects
Alkan, Charles-Valentin, 1813-1888.
Composers--France. --Biography.

Contents Volume 1. Prodigy -- Virtuoso -- Delaborde -- A lost symphony -- The "Grande sonate" -- Marmontel -- Recluse -- Prometheus bound -- Les Petits concerts -- The final years -- The death of Alkan -- Rescue of a lost cause -- Personality and appearance -- The reluctant virtuoso -- The music -- Family-tree of Alkan Morhange.
Contents Volume 2. Early works -- The concerti da camera -- The crystallisation of a style -- The miniatures -- The thirty chants -- The Grande Sonate and Sonatine -- Trois Grandes Etudes, op. 76 -- Douze etudes, op. 35 -- Douze etudes, op. 39 -- Miscellaneous piano music -- Transcriptions and cadenzas -- Chamber music -- Orchestral and vocal music -- Organ or pedal-piano? -- Alkan's creative personality.
Abstract Alkan, virtuoso pianist and also composer of some of the most difficult and disturbingly powerful piano music. After a long period of neglect his piano music is being discovered by an ever-widening public and played and recorded by some of the world's leading pianists. This work, in two parts, is published in two separate volumes - the first deals with the man, and the second is devoted solely to his music.
General noteVol. 2 co-published by Taplinger Pub. Co., New York.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographies and indexes.
LCCN 76369229
ISBN0900707399 (v. 1) :
ISBN0800801709 (v. 2 : U.S.)

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML410.A442 S6 V.1 ✔ Available Place Hold
Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk ML410.A442 S6 V.2 ✔ Available Place Hold