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EMMANUAL CHABRIER

18thJanuary 1841 --- 13thSeptember 1894

Emmanual Chabrier was born in 1841, Ambert, Puy-de-Dome, Fr.--died 1894, Paris), French composer whose best works reflect
the verve and wit of the Paris scene of the 1880s and who was a musical counterpart of the early Impressionist painters.

Chabrier was attracted  in his youth to both music and painting.  He studied law in Paris from 1858 to 1862.  During these years
he also  studied  the  piano  and  harmony  and counterpoint.  His  technical  training  was,  however,  limited,  and in  the art  of
composition  he was  self-taught.  From 1862 to  1880 he  was employed  at t he Ministry  of the  Interior, producing  during this
period the operas L'Etoile (1877 "The Star")  and Une Education manquee ("A Deficient Education"),  first performed with  piano
accompaniment in 1879  and with orchestra in 1913.  Two  unfinished operettas  were sketched  out between 1863 and 1865  in
cooperation   with  the  poet  Paul  Verlaine.   He  was closely  associated  with   the  Impressionist  painters  and  purchased  the
celebrated "Bar at the Folies-Bergere" by his friend Édouard Manet.

After hearing Richard Wagner's  Tristan und Isolde at Munich in 1879 Chabrier left the Ministry of the Interior to devote himself
exclusively to music.  As chorus master  at the Concerts Lamoureux he  helped to produce a concert performance of Tristan  and
became  associated with  Vincent d'Indy,  Henri Duparc,  and Gabriel  Faure  as one of  the group known as  "Le Petit  Bayreuth"
Chabrier's best music was written between 1881 and 1891 when, after visiting Spain (where he was inspired by the folk music)
he  settled at La  Membrolle  in Touraine.  His works during this  period include the  piano pieces Dix Pieces  pittoresques (1880
"Ten Picturesque Pieces"),  Trois valses  romantiques (1883,  "Three Romantic Waltzes") for two pianos, and Bourree fantasque
(1891, "Bourree   Fantastic" a dance),  the orchestral works Espana (1883, "Spain") and Joyeuse Marche (1888, "Joyful March")
the  opera Le Roi malgre lui (1887,  "The King in Spite of Himself"),  and six songs (1890).  The last three years  of his life  were
marked by a mental and physical collapse.

Chabrier's music,   frequently based  on irregular rhythmic  patterns or on  rapidly  repeated figures  derived from  the bourree
a dance of his native Auvergne,  was inspired  by both broad humour and a sense of caricature. His melodic gifts,  developed by
the popular songs of the Paris cafés-concerts, were abundant though inclined to coarseness. In his piano and  orchestral works
he developed a  sophisticated Parisian  style that  was a  model for the  20th-century composers  Francis Poulenc  and  Georges
Auric. His orchestration was  remarkable for novel  instrumental  combinations. In Espana his  use of the brass  and  percussion
anticipated effects in Igor Stravinsky's Petrushka.

Chabrier was also a notable letter writer, the collection of his published letters being valued for its literary as well as its musical
interest and for its streak of spontaneous, Rabelaisian humour.

Copyright 1994-1998 Encyclopaedia Britannica

Last Updated on 2023
By Steven Ritchie

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Thanks to George Pollen for the music below.

New (3939)"Danse Villageoise. Sequenced by George Pollen.

New (3938)"Danse Slave, Le Roi Malgre Lui". Sequenced by George Pollen.

Thanks to Ramon for the music below.

(2143)"Espana, rhapsody for orchestra (1883)". Sequenced by Ramon Pajares Box.

(1122)"Feuillet d'album (Albumleaf)". Sequenced by Dominique Rayet.

(1124)"Suite pastorale, No.2." Danse villageoise". Sequenced by Dr.David Siu.

(1125)"Suite Pastorale No.4." Scherzo-valse ". Sequenced by Dr.David Siu.

(1126)"Souvenirs de Munich". Sequenced by Dr.David Siu.

(1129)"Joyeuse marche". Sequenced by Dr.David Siu.

(29a)"Souvenirs". Sequenced by Dr.David Siu.

(1123)"Pieces Pittoresques". Sequencer Unknown

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