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Charles Valentin Alkan: His Life and His Music.(COMPOSER STUDIES)(Book review)
Charles Valentin Alkan: His Life and His Music. By William Alexander Eddie. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2007. [xi, 270 p. ISBN-I0 1-84014-260-X; ISBN-13 978-1-84014-260-0., $99.95.] Music examples, bibliography, indexes,
Charles Valentin Alkan is one of the nineteenth century's most intractable musical enigmas. Despite notable contributions over the last thirty years by Ronald Smith (Alkan, 2 vols. [London: Kahn & Averill, 1976-871; reprint, Alkan: The Man, The Music [London: Kahn 8c Averill, 2000]), Britta Schilling (Virtuose Klaviermusik des 19. Jahrhunderts run Beispiel Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888) [Regensburg: Gustav Bosse, 1986|), and Brigitte ...
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