| 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 note | Vol. 2 co-published by Taplinger Pub. Co., New York. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographies and indexes. |
| LCCN | 76369229 |
| ISBN | 0900707399 (v. 1) : |
| ISBN | 0800801709 (v. 2 : U.S.) |
