Napoleon Alkane
Napoléon Alexandre Alkan (born Napoléon Alexandre Morhange ; born February 2, 1826 in Paris , † August 1906 there ) was a French composer and music teacher .
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Alkan, born in the French capital in 1826, studied at the Conservatoire de Paris in 1835, where he studied piano with Pierre Zimmermann , organ with François Benoist and counterpoint and fugue with Adolphe Adam . In 1850 he won the First Second Grand Prix de Rome with the three-part scene Emma et Eginhard based on a poem by Anne Bignan .
He had been teaching solfège at the Conservatoire since 1845 and was professor of solfège from 1857 to 1896. He composed a number of original piano works and piano transcriptions of works by classical composers such as Mozart and Haydn .
Alkan was one of six children of Alkan Morhange who took their father's first name as their surname. They all successfully attended the Conservatoire de Paris. Celeste Mayer-Marix (* February 25, 1811; † 1891) began her training at the Conservatoire at the age of seven and won first prize in the subject of solfège at the age of eleven. She and her husband Mayer-Marix ran a music shop in Paris. Charles Valentin Alkan became a well-known composer and piano virtuoso. Ernest Alkan (born July 11, 1816, † 1876) was a student of Jean-Louis Tulou and was known as a flautist. A few dances for the piano have come down to us from Maxime Alkan (* May 28, 1818; † 1891). The youngest of the siblings was Gustave Alkan (* March 24, 1827, † 1882).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Biographical data of Napoléon Alkan in "The music in past and present: general encyclopedia of ...": Volume 1, by Friedrich Blume, Ludwig Finscher - 1994, page 1996
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| SURNAME | Alkane, Napoleon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Alkan, Napoléon Alexandre (full name); Morhange, Napoléon Alexandre (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French composer and music teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1826 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1906 |
| Place of death | Paris |