Jack Gibbons is an English-born American classical composer and virtuoso pianist.
Gibbons in 2004
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.
Alkan's father, Alkan Morhange
Report on Alkan's 1819 solfège audition at the Paris Conservatoire. (Archives Nationales, Paris)
Report on Alkan's 1820 keyboard audition at the Paris Conservatoire. (Archives Nationales, Paris)
George Sand