Céleste Alkan

[1] From 1819 until 1832 she was a student at the Paris Conservatoire under the name Céleste Alkan, where she studied solfége (gaining first prize in 1823), singing and basso continuo.

[5] On September 14, 1837 Céleste married a cousin, Mayer Marix,[6] a dealer in musical instruments, and the inventor of a portable organ, the "harmoniflûte".

[7][8] Their daughter, Marie Marix, was a singer who participated in C.-V. Alkan's series of Petits concerts in Paris in the 1870s.

Their second daughter, Albertine, was the mother of the artist Jacques Nam [fr].

[9] Céleste Alkan is buried in Montmartre Cemetery in the same grave as her brother Charles-Valentin.