Chabrier

Emmanuel Chabrier · French Romantic composer and pianist · 1841–1894

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What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani names Emmanuel Chabrier as one of the first figures of the renewal of French music, and each time he stresses that he is forgotten: he calls him "always sacrificed"1, "the one people forget"2, often forgotten from the group even though he is "not the least innovative"3, or the one forgotten "all the time in the gang"4. He contrasts the image of the man with the reach of his work: beneath a colourful temperament, that of a "jolly fellow of genius"5, he hears music of prophetic depth1. In his "Musicosophie" sessions on modern music, he singles out the Bourrée fantasque for its rhythmic daring, which he considers superior, and notes that the bourrée form refers back to Baroque dance suites2. He also mentions in passing that Chabrier wrote habaneras6. His remarks are brief: Chabrier comes up mainly as a name he makes a point of recalling among the musicians of this renewal.

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Who is this?

Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier (French:; 18 January 1841 – 13 September 1894) was a French Romantic composer and pianist. His bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked as a civil servant until the age of thirty-nine while immersing himself in the modernist artistic life of the French capital and composing in his spare time. From 1880 until his final illness he was a full-time composer. […]

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