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CHABRIER, ALEXIS EMMANUEL (1841-1894)

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CHABRIER, See also:ALEXIS See also:EMMANUEL (1841-1894) , See also:French composer, was See also:born at See also:Ambert, See also:Puy de See also:Dome, on the 18th of See also:January 1841. At first he only cultivated See also:music as an See also:amateur, and it was not until 1879 that he threw up an See also:administration See also:appointment in See also:order to devote himself entirely to the See also:art. He had two years previously written an See also:opera bouffe entitled L'Etoile, which was performed at the Bouffes Parisiens. In 1881 he was appointed See also:chorus-See also:master of the concerts then recently established by See also:Lamoureux. In 1883 he composed the brilliant orchestral rhapsody entitled Espana, the themes of which he had jotted down when travelling in See also:Spain. His opera Gwendoline was brought out with considerable success at See also:Brussels on the loth of See also:April 1886, and was given later at the See also:Paris See also:Grand Opera. The following See also:year 1887, Le Roi malgre lui, an opera of a lighter description, was produced in Paris at the Opera Comique, its run being interrupted by the terrible See also:fire by which this See also:theatre was destroyed. His last opera, Briseis, was See also:left unfinished, and performed in a fragmentary See also:condition at the Paris Opera, after the composer's See also:death in Paris on the 13th of See also:September 1894. Chabrier was also the author of a set of piano pieces entitled Pieces pittoresques, Valses romantiques, for two pianos, a See also:fantasia for See also:horn and piano, &c. His See also:great admiration for See also:Wagner asserted itself in Gwendoline, a See also:work which, in spite of inequalities due to want of experience, is animated by a high See also:artistic ideal, is poetically conceived, and shows considerable See also:harmonic originality, besides a thorough mastery over the treatment of the See also:orchestra. The characteristics of Le Roimalgre lui have been well summed up by M. See also:Joncieres when he alludes to " See also:cette verve inepuisable, See also:ces rythmes endiables, cette exuberance de gaiete et de vigueur, a laquelle venait se joindre la See also:note melancolique et emue." Chabrier's premature death prevented him from giving the full measure of his See also:worth.

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