Antoine Marmontel: Etude in c minor (from the 50 Salonetudes, set)

I tried to play it faster but then it started to get too messy and so I choose this still reasonable Allegro non troppo tempo where there is room for some rubato in the right hand. Antoine François Marmontel (1816 – 1898) was a French pianist, teacher and musicographer. He entered the Paris Conservatory in 1827. His teachers were Pierre Zimmerman in pianoforte, Victor Dourlen in harmony, Jacques Fromental Halévy in fugue and Jean-François Le Sueur in composition. He achieved first prizes in theory of music and piano. In 1837, he became an assistant in theory of music at the Conservatory. In 1848 he succeeded Zimmerman as Professor of Keyboard at the Conservatory, beating his former teacher Charles-Valentin Alkan, and as a consequence derailing the latter’s career. His memoir of his sometime colleague in his book ’Les pianistes célèbres’ is nonetheless one of the most valuable sources for Alkan’s biography. Marmontel achieved renown as an effectiv