# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-valentin-alkan
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:30:47.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-valentin-alkan"
name: "Charles-Valentin Alkan"
slug: "charles-valentin-alkan"
description: "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."
tagline: "French composer and pianist (1813–1888)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles-Henri-Valentin_Morhange_dit_Alkan.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1813-11-30"
deathDate: "1888-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.74
  momentum:             0.6283941039565554
  historical:           24.001636
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump