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Books on Alkan and his music |
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Eddie, W. A. (2007). Charles Valentin Alkan: His Life and His Music. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 978 1 84014 260 0 |
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François-Sappey, B. (1991). Charles Valentin Alkan. Fayard: Paris. ISBN: 221302779X (in French) |
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François-Sappey, B. and François Luguenot (2013). Charles Valentin Alkan. Editions Bleu Nuit: Paris. ISBN: 2358840238 (in French) |
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Kessous-Dreyfuss, A. (2013). Le passant du pont de l'Europe: Charles Valentin Alkan entre tradition et modernité. Massoreth Editions. ISBN 2911942175 (in French) |
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Smith, R. (1976). Alkan. Volume 1: The Enigma. Kahn & Averill: London. ISBN 0 900707 39 9. |
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Smith, R. (1987). Alkan. Volume 2: The Music. Kahn & Averill: London. ISBN 0 900707 84 4. |
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Smith, R. (2000). Alkan: The Man, The Music. Kahn & Averill: London. ISBN 1871082730.(Revised edition of Vols 1 & 2 above) |
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Tadday, U. (2017). (ed.) Charles Valentin Alkan (Musik-Konzepte Heft 178). Edition text+kritik,: Munich. ISBN 978-3-86916-600-1 |
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Books relevant to Alkan and his music |
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Conway, D. (2011). Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. ISBN 9781107015388 |
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Jensen, E. (1992). Walls of Circumstance: Studies in Nineteenth-century Music. Scarecrow Press: Washington. ISBN 978-0810825888 |
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Lerner, N. & Straus, J. (2006). Sounding Off: Theorizing Disability in Music. Routledge. ISBN 978-0415979078 |
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Lindeman, S. D. (1999). Structural Novelty and Tradition in the Early Romantic Piano Concerto. Pendragon Press. ISBN 978-1576470008 |
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Macdonald, H. (2008). Beethoven's Century: Essays on Composers and Themes. University of Rochester Press. ISBN 978-1580462754 |
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Ochse, O. C. (2000). Organists and Organ Playing in Nineteenth-Century France and Belgium. Indiana University Press: Bloomington. ISBN 978-0253214232 |
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Rimm, R. (2003). The Composer-pianists: Hamelin and the Eight. Amadeus Press. ISBN 978-1574670721. |
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Journal articles and reports |
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Ahn, J. (1988). A Stylistic Evaluation of Charles Valentin Alkan's Piano Music, A Lecture Recital together with Three Recitals of Selected Works of J. S. Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Schumann, and Villa-Lobos. Thesis for Doctor of Musical Arts, University of North Texas. Available here |
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Bat-Yaacov, Dena Collected papers, including documents relating to her performacnes of Alkan. Further information. |
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Beauvois, M. W. (2018). Alkan’s Petits Préludes for organ: A case study of composition by constraints. Music & Science, 1, 1-19. Abstract; Full article |
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Bitzan, W. (2016). Durch alle Tonarten: Omnitonale Präludienzyklen für Klavier.Eine Darstellung der Gattungsgeschichte mit besonderem Blick auf Musik aus Sowjetrussland (Through all the keys: omnitonal prelude cycles for piano. A representation of the history of the genre with a special focus on music from Soviet Russia). Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, Volume 73, Number 3, 185-219. Abstract |
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Byrd, D. (rev 2017), Extremes of Conventional Music Notation, web page (retrieved 4 Fab 2018) |
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Arfini, M. T. (2015). Charles Valentin Alkan e Johann Sebastian Bach: un capitolo dello storicismo in Francia. In: Ad Parnassum, Vol. 13. Link to abstract |
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Henahan, D. (1988). Music view: The Birth And Death Of a Legend. The New York Times, 12 June, 1988. Available here |
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Hennig, D. (1975). Charles-Valentin Alkan: An Introduction with Special Reference to the Études Op.35 and Op.39, B Phil dissertation, Oxford University. Link to World Catalog, . |
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Hillmann, J. L. (2018). Solving the Riddle of Alkan's Grande Sonate Op. 33 ‘Les quatre âges’: A Performance Guide and Programmatic Overview. Doctoral dissertation, Arizona State University. Abstract; Full thesis |
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Himelfarb, C. (2005). “Le Foyer d'art de Pierre Joseph Zimmerman Un Salon de pianistes dans la Nouvelle Athènes sous Louis Philippe”, in : La Maison de l'artiste construction d'un espace de représentations entre réalité et imaginaire (XVIIe-XXe siècles), P.U. de Rennes, |
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Himelfarb, C. (2001). “De la concordance des temps dans l'œuvre pour piano de C. V. Alkan (1813-1888) Eléments pour une étude des modèles anciens dans le cycle poétique des 25 Préludes op.31 (1847)” mémoire de D.E.A, université de Genève, dir. J.-J Eigeldinger, |
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Himelfarb, C. (1997). “Dans le genre ancien, Charles Valentin Alkan et la musique du passé (1813-1888)”, in : Sillages musicologiques, Hommages à Yves Gérard, CREC, Paris. |
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Himelfarb, C. (1990). “Reflexions sur la problématique de la forme dans le piano romantique français : "Le Festin d'Esope", n° 12 des "Études dans les tons mineurs" op.39 de Charles Valentin Alkan (1857)”, in : Analyse musicale, juin, n°20 |
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Himelfarb, C. (1988). «Charles Valentin Alkan L'interprète à travers la presse musicale» in : C. V.ALKAN (ouvrage collectif, dir. B.François-Sappey) Fayard, |
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Himelfarb, C. (1986). «Le testament de Charles Valentin Alkan» in : Revue musicale de Suisse Romande, déc. |
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Ho, Allan Benedict (1978). The Piano Music of Charles-Valentin Alkan. Dean Prize for Undergraduate Research (listed on Googlebooks but currently unavailable) |
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Holden, E. (2014). Charles Valentin Alkan: Interpreting the Composer’s use of Rhythm as Identified in the Dominant Motifs present in the Music for Organ, Pedal-piano and Harmonium. PhD thesis, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland. Link to pdf version of thesis. |
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Kersey, J., (1990), Quelques considerations concernant le rythme dans la musique de Charles-Valentin Alkan, London, Alkan Society Archive at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 1990; also in Bulletin de la Société Alkan, 35 (1996), 3-20 |
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Kersey, J., (trans. Luguenot, F.) (1998), Raymond Lewenthal et la musique de Charles-Valentin Alkan. Bulletin de la Société Alkan, 41, 12-13. |
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Kersey, J. (2007). Collectors’ Guide: the major recordings of Alkan’s Concerto for solo piano, in International Piano, ed. Williams, Orpheus Publications, London, vol 9 no 53, September/October 2007, pp60-63. |
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Lee, W. (2015). The pianistic idiosyncrasies of Charles Valentin Alkan as exemplified in his "Recueil de Chants". Masters thesis, California State University. Link to pdf version of thesis. |
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MacDonald, L. E. (1966). The Piano Music of Charles-Valentin Alkan. Master thesis Ohio State University. (Available from here - scroll to near bottom of page and click on “Download”) |
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Penrose, J. (1993). The strange case of Charles Valentin Alkan. New Criterion, 11(9). |
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Roberge, M.-A. (1984). Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813-88): un excentrique enfin pris au sérieux. Sonances, revue musicale québécoise, 3(3), 11-16. Available here |
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Roberge, M.-A. (1991). The Busoni Network and the Art of Creative Transcription. Canadian University Music Review, 11(1), 68-88. Available here |
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Robson, K. W. (2012). Romantic liturgists: Franz Liszt’s and Charles Valentin Alkan’s settings Of Psalm 137. Masters thesis, University of Georgia. Link to pdf version of thesis |
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Sandvik, J. (2014). Examination concert: Interpreting music by three different composers. Masters thesis, Kungliga Musikhögskolan, Sweden. (Includes performance notes on Symphonie for solo piano.) Available here |
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Simms, N. (2017). Some Observations on the Jewish Comedian-Musician. New English Review, Dec 2017. Available here |
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Steinbron, M. J. (2006). Background conglomerates in Alkan's Quasi-Faust, op. 33, no. 2. Masters thesis, Louisiana State University. Available here |
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Waeber, J. (2007). Searching for the Plot: Charles-Valentin Alkan's Souvenirs: Trois morceaux dans le genre pathétique, Op. 15. Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 132(1), 60-114. Abstract |
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Bibliographies |
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Nicholas Bell’s bibliography (compiled 1994 but of continuing relevance) |