Emmanuel Chabrier

Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, Espaa and Joyeuse marche, he left an important corpus of operas , songs, and piano music. He was admired by composers as diverse as Debussy, Ravel, Richard Strauss, Satie, Schmitt, Stravinsky, and the group of composers known as Les six. Stravinsky alluded to Espaa in his ballet Petrushka Gustav Mahler called Espaa the beginnings of modern music and alluded to the Dance Villageoise in the Rondo Burleske movement of his Ninth Symphony. Ravel wrote that the opening bars of Le roi malgr lui changed the course of harmony in France, Poulenc wrote a biography of the composer, and Richard Strauss conducted the first staged performance of Chabriers incomplete opera Briss.

AlexisEmmanuel Chabrier was born in Ambert , a town in the Auvergne region of central France. His father was an attorney his childhood nanny Anne Delayre remained close to him throughout her life. He began his music lessons at the age of six the earliest of his compositions to survive in manuscript are piano works from 1849.

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