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Alkan

Please check the sources again. Gibbon, and Ronald Smith and everyone else attribute these quotes, correctly, to d'Indy. If you don't believe me, check Busoni's dates and biography and see whether he could even have been in Paris at the time of Alkan's Erard recitals!! (He wasn't!) If Hyperion's notes say different, they are just wrong. Best regards, --Smerus (talk) 13:39, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

I should add that although Busoni was later a champion of Alkan's music, the two men never met. Best regards, --Smerus (talk) 13:42, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

This is verbatim from Gibbons's swebsite:

A particularly vivid account of Alkan as a performer comes from the composer Vincent d'Indy who heard him play Beethoven's Op.110 Sonata in the 1870s:

"I couldn't begin to describe what happened to the great Beethovenian poem — above all, the Arioso and the Fugue, where the melody, penetrating the mystery of Death itself, climbs up to a blaze of light, affected me with an excess of enthusiasm such as I have never experienced since. It had greater intimacy and was more humanly moving than Liszt's performance...".

--Smerus (talk) 13:44, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

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