"Les Six", is a name given to a group of six French composers who worked in which location, their music is often seen as a reaction against the musical style of Richard Wagner and the impressionist music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, was a French composer, pianist and conductor?
Les Six "Les Six" (] ) is a name given to a group of six French composers who worked in Montparnasse. The name, inspired by Mily Balakirev's "The Five", originates in critic Henri Collet's 1920 article "Les cinq Russes, les six Français et M. Satie " ("", 16 January 1920). Their music is often seen as a reaction against the musical style of Richard Wagner and the impressionist music of Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel.
Charles-Valentin Alkan Charles-Valentin Alkan (] ; 30 November 1813 – 29 March 1888) was a French-Jewish 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.