シャルル＝ヴァランタン・アルカン
"Le chemin de fer" (French for "the railway" or "the railroad"), Op. 27, is a programmatic étude for piano composed by Charles-Valentin Alkan in 1844, frequently cited as the first musical representation of a railway. It is a "perpetuum mobile" composition at an extremely fast tempo, in D minor, and performance at tempo lasts approximately five minutes.