Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813–1888) was a French composer and virtuoso pianist. His music writing covers many genres. His major works are extremely difficult to play and decipher, due to their length and heavy texture. But his collection of miniatures called Esquisses is a hidden treasure. The range of this work is vast: it includes short character pieces in various styles and genres, from pre-Baroque to Impressionism. Alkan showed his mature compositional skill, endless creativity in these pieces. This work can be classified into eight unique styles. I choose one piece from each style to give a thorough analysis of Alkan's musical language and guidance either technical or musically challenging passages. I hope this dissertation can assist both teachers and students in learning this underrated work.

Valentin Raspoutine (né le 15 mars 1937) et Alexandre Vampilov (19 août 1937-17 août 1972) sont deux auteurs dont l’œuvre présente un intérêt particulier pour la critique littéraire contemporaine. La pénétration émotionnelle et philosophique dans la nature de « l’Autre » et l’aspiration à sa reconstitution esthétique sont caractéristiques de Valentin Raspoutine comme d’Alexandre Vampilov. Le rôle de l’anthropologie artistique dans l’esthétique des deux créateurs reste toujours un champ vaste de réflexion et d’interprétation. La thèse prouve que ce sont les espaces communicatifs des œuvres de Raspoutine et de Vampilov qui contiennent des repères de l’authenticité et de la prédestination de la personnalité de fiction. L’étude met en évidence le but de l’existence artistique de la personnalité unique du narrataire, du héros et du narrateur dans l’œuvre de l’écrivain et celle du dramaturge. / Valentin Rasputin (born 17 March 1937) and Aleksandr Vampilov (19 August1937-17 August 1972) are the two authors whose creative work is of particular interest to the contemporary literary criticism. The emotional and philosophical penetration into «the Other’s nature» as well as the aspiration for its aesthetic recreation are quite typical of the both artists. The role of artistic anthropology in the two creators’ aesthetics still needs its interpretation and is open to research.The given thesis proves that it’s the communicative space of Rasputin and Vampilov’s works that contains the vectors of the artistic personality’s predestination and feature. The study reveals an aim of the unique personality’s artistic existence, the existence of the narratator, the personage and the narrator, in the pieces of art created by the writer and the playwright.

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Charles Valentin Alkan (1813-1888), one of the great genii in music history, was widely misunderstood by his contemporaries because of his highly idiosyncratic ideas. From the perspective of the late twentieth century, his innovations can be better understood, and his music is now gaining wider appreciation. Yet, today many musicians still do not know even his name, much less his achievements. The year 1988 marks the one hundredth year since his death. In commemoration of this centennial anniversary, this thesis is presented as a plea for a greater awareness of the achievements of this important figure in the development of piano music.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1979 S75 / Master of Arts

Valentin Roeser’s Essai d’instruction à l’usage de ceux qui composent pour la clarinette et le cor is the earliest treatise on instrumentation and the first theoretical study of the clarinet. Comparisons are drawn with other eighteenth-century instructional materials, e.g. Francoeur’s Diapason général, La Borde’s Essai sur la musique, and Vanderhagen’s Méthode nouvelle et raisonnée pour la clarinette. A history of the chalumeau and two-keyed clarinet is presented, along with a biographical sketch of Roeser and an English translation of the first section of the Essai. Appendices include a checklist of Roeser’s writings and a list of eighteenth-century music using the chalumeau.

Charles-Valentin Alkan ( 1813-1888 ), French composer and pianist at early nineteenth century, devoted himself to write piano music only as Chopin during his entire life. As a child prodigy, his talent of performing piano was recognized when he was quite young, then, became as an outstanding pianist of his time. However, because of his unsociable personality and strange behavior, Alkan was soon forgotten by the public. His music was discovered in recent decades by scholars and pianists. They started to explore his works; consequently, he became famous again. There are three parts in this study. The first part aims on his mysterious life. The second part seeks to clarify the development of the concerto and the musical environment of Paris at the beginning of the nineteenth century. The last part should focus on music style and structure based on his earlier work Concerto da Camera, No. 10. Hopefully, through the research, the historical significant of Alkan can be defined more precisely.

Thèse de doctorat : Littérature française : Rennes 2 : 2008. / Données textuelles.

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Diss. : Philosophische Fakultät : Saarbrücken : 1986. - Bibliogr. p. 451-476. -