page_title: Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges'
hierarchical_section_title: Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges'
caption_attribution_description: English: First featured advertisement of Alkan's Grande Sonate Op.33 in the 'Revue et Gazette Musical de Paris', 7 May 1848.
context_page_description: Grande sonate: Les quatre âges is a four movement sonata for piano by Charles-Valentin Alkan. The sonata's title refers to the subtitles given to each movement, portraying a man at the ages of 20, 30, 40, and 50. The work is dedicated to the composer's father, Alkan Morhange, and was published in 1847.
  The sequence of movements is unlike the typical classical piano sonata, in that they become progressively slower; after the lively 20 ans, marked 'très vite' and the complex 30 ans, subtitled Quasi-Faust, and marked 'assez vite', 40 ans is more sedate, marked 'lentement', and 50 ans, dark and pessimistic in mood, is marked 'extrêmement lent'.
context_section_description: Grande sonate: Les quatre âges (French for Grand sonata: The Four Ages) is a four movement sonata for piano by Charles-Valentin Alkan. The sonata's title refers to the subtitles given to each movement, portraying a man at the ages of 20, 30, 40, and 50. The work is dedicated to the composer's father, Alkan Morhange (who died eight years later, in 1855), and was published in 1847.
  The sequence of movements is unlike the typical classical piano sonata, in that they become progressively slower; after the lively 20 ans (years), marked 'très vite' (very fast) and the complex 30 ans, subtitled Quasi-Faust, and marked 'assez vite' (quite fast), 40 ans is more sedate, marked 'lentement' (slowly), and  50 ans, dark and pessimistic in mood, is marked 'extrêmement lent' (extremely slow).
caption: Announcement of the publication of Alkan's Grande sonate (Op. 33) and Scherzo focoso (Op. 34) by Brandus et Cie. on 7 May 1848 in the Revue et Gazette Musicale de Paris.[1]
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