In Europe in the 1810s, approximately 200 years ago, a new era of art called "Romanticism" was emerging, and new virtuosos of piano music, who would lead this era, were successively born. Following Chopin and Schumann, both born in 1810, talented individuals such as Liszt (1811), Thalberg (1812), and Alkan and Heller (both 1813) successively appeared. Particularly in Paris, where industry developed remarkably, the piano manufacturing and concert industries rapidly grew alongside London, attracting a large number of pianist-composers from all over Europe, who competed for supremacy through their outstanding performance techniques and imaginative ideas. While "foreigners" (étrangers) like Chopin and Liszt rose to stardom in the Parisian music scene due to their strong personalities, recent research has revealed that there were, in fact, not a few French musicians of the 1810 generation who were equally acclaimed as pianist-composers alongside them. Although their works, let alone their names, are still largely unknown to the general public, Alkan (born 1813), Marmontel (born 1816, a professor at the Paris Conservatoire who taught piano to Debussy), Prudent (born 1817), and Ravina (born 1818) are standard-bearers of the "French School" (École Française), representing France's brilliant 1810 generation. And Louis Lacombe (November 26, 1818 - September 30, 1884) was also a learned and distinctive composer who left his mark on this group, as well as a pianist boasting astonishing performance technique.