Charles Valentin Alkan
Symphony op. 39 no. 4–7
Charles Valentin Alkan focused his work entirely on the piano, and one can hardly fill the page more densely with notes than Alkan did. With that he numbers among the breakneck piano virtuosos who left behind pieces that were long considered unplayable, but are now being rediscovered by more and more accomplished instrumentalists. The etude collection op. 39 is a curiosity, for the composer not only gave the twelve etudes eloquent titles (Le Festin d‘Ésope for no. 12, HN 1394, is particularly well known), but also grouped some of them together under their own headings. Thus, Etudes nos. 4–7 form a – pianistically very attractive – Symphony, which is presented here in highest quality notation. Although the autographs are lost, Alkan closely supervised the printing process, so that the first edition provides a reliable basis for a meticulous Henle Urtext edition. The fingerings stem from Alkan specialist Vincenzo Maltempo.
About the Authors
Andreas Pernpeintner (Editor)
Andreas Pernpeintner, born in 1982, read music pedagogy, musicology and history at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU). Expansion of his thesis into the book publication “Klaviertechnik nach Ansgar Janke. Bewegungsoptimierung beim Instrumentalspiel”. In 2012 doctorate in musicology with the thesis “Aloys Georg Fleischmann (1880–1964). Musikalische Mikrogeschichte zwischen Deutschland und Irland”, research stays in Ireland and Great Britain, doctorate on a scholarship from the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”. Pernpeintner worked for the “Bayerische Musiker-Lexikon Online”. From 2011 to 2024, he was employed by the “Kritische Ausgabe der Werke von Richard Strauss”, for which he edited all of the composer’s lieder with piano accompaniment. As a music journalist he has written for the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. Since 2024 he has been an editor at G. Henle Publishers with a focus on piano music and works by female composers.
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