Recueil de Chants, Op.67
Op. 67
Charles-Valentin Alkan 1813–1888
Op. 67
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Songs without words·Modelled on Mendelssohn·Lyrical Alkan·Accessible writing
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- Op. 67
About the piece
A collection of songs without words, written in open homage to Mendelssohn, whose Lieder ohne Worte had established the genre. Alkan produced five such books across his career, each following Mendelssohn's arrangement of six pieces per volume.
They show a side of him rarely acknowledged: lyrical, restrained and playable by an ordinary pianist, standing in sharp contrast to the monumental studies on which his reputation rests.
The composer
Charles-Valentin Alkan
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 life.
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