Quotes About Alkan

Paris continued to offer Chopin its usual array of attractions, including dinner parties with Auguste Léo and the ever-faithful Delacroix, and an occasional visit to the opera. At this time, too, his friendship with Alkan deepened. Alkan still lived in the Square d'Orléans, and Chopin occasionally went over to his apartment in order to spend the remains of the day with him.

Alkan even wrote a piece for four feet, called Bombardo-Carillon, in which the player's legs are likely to get entangled during performance. (When Swiss-American pianist Rudolph Ganz was asked to perform Bombardo-Carillon with a female pianist, he declined on the grounds that he didn't know her well enough.)