Charles-Valentin Alkan (30 Novemba 1813 - 29 Machi 1888) alikuwa mtunzi wa muziki na mpigaji wa kinanda maarufu kutoka nchi ya Ufaransa. Jina lake la kuzaliwa lilikuwa Charles-Valentin Morhange; wakati wa utoto yeye na ndugu zake wakatumia jina la baba yao Lakan kama jina la familia. Charles-Valentin alikuwa mpigaji kinanda mashuhuri na mwenye uwezo wa kupiga kinanda haraka zaidi na alitunga tungo nyingi za kinanda, ambazo nyingi zilikuwa vigumu kwa watu wengine kuweza kuzipiga. Alkan Society website, including complete and regularly updated discography "The Myths of Alkan" by Jack Gibbons The Strange case of Charles-Valentin Alkan Unriddling Alkan Archived 21 Desemba 2005 at the Wayback Machine. Bibliography and Discography Archived 15 Mei 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Pictures of Alkan and his family (his father, his mother, his sister Celeste, his brother Napoléon, and his son Elie-Miriam Delaborde). Wikimedia Commons ina media kuhusu: Charles-Valentin Alkan Free Alkan scores and manuscripts - site of Sylvain Chosson Free scores by Charles-Valentin Alkan katika Werner Icking Music Archive (WIMA) Kunst der Fuge website: many of the piano works in MIDI files www.kreusch-sheet-music.net - Free Scores by Alkan Alkan ame orodheshwa katika International Music Score Library Project