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Offline gyzzzmo

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Alkan sheetmusic
on: May 16, 2008, 07:56:00 AM
Anybody knows a good (internet) place to get sheetmusic from Alkan? I cant find any music from him on the regular sheetmusic sites, and so many people on this forum seem to get excited from the word 'Alkan'..... :p
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Offline nilsjohan

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Re: Alkan sheetmusic
Reply #1 on: May 16, 2008, 08:16:31 AM
In case you haven't seen it some of his most important piano works are available here:
https://www.pianostreet.com/sheet_music/Alkan.htm

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Re: Alkan sheetmusic
Reply #2 on: May 16, 2008, 08:58:23 AM
Thanks for moving Nils, i actually never check those sub forums and forgot about them ;)
About the Alkans provided by your site.... 'For Free' always attracted me more than 'Cheap' ;)

But keep up the good work,
gyzzzmo
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Offline kyliec

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Re: Alkan sheetmusic
Reply #3 on: May 16, 2008, 09:12:33 AM
Hi this looks pretty comprehensive,


https://piano.francais.free.fr/
Cheers, KYlie

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Re: Alkan sheetmusic
Reply #4 on: May 17, 2008, 08:23:36 AM
Thanks for the link, but for the nicest pieces you have to pay to download, and some other links are broken :(

gyzzzmo
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Offline remy

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Re: Alkan sheetmusic
Reply #5 on: May 17, 2008, 02:15:54 PM
Here's another excellent Alkan site:

https://www.musicologie.org/Biographies/alkan_c_v.html


remy

Offline gyzzzmo

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Re: Alkan sheetmusic
Reply #6 on: May 17, 2008, 10:02:44 PM
Here's another excellent Alkan site:

https://www.musicologie.org/Biographies/alkan_c_v.html


remy

Bit the same story as with KYlie's suggestion. Maybe somebody has a torrent or a big zipfile he/she could send me?
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Offline ophely

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Re: Alkan sheetmusic
Reply #7 on: May 18, 2008, 11:20:57 AM
I just have a book of his preludes...if it helps ;)
"La musique adoucit les moeurs, tant que l'on a pas de voisin musicien."
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Re: Alkan sheetmusic
Reply #8 on: May 18, 2008, 12:46:46 PM
thanks loads, now the rest :p
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Offline chopininov

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Re: Alkan sheetmusic
Reply #9 on: May 25, 2008, 02:26:42 PM
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