Lile heureuse emmanuel chabrier biography
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Songs of Emmanuel Chabrier
The French composer Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894) wrote music in many genres, including opera and operetta, piano, orchestral music, and songs with piano accompaniment.[1] The songs cover most of his creative years, from the early 1860s to 1890, when the illness which would kill him prevented much composition.[n 1] He came late to music as a profession, but – although being an exceptional pianist – he had no trappings of a formal training: no conservatoire studies, no Prix de Rome, "none of the conventional badges of French academic musicians, by whom he was regarded as an amateur" (in the best sense).[2]
There are forty-three published songs by Chabrier. He began composing these mélodies when he was about twenty-one; the first nine were written between 1862 and 1866. Chabrier never set any verse by his friend Verlaine (although they did collaborate on two opéras-bouffes Fisch-Ton-Kan and Vaucochard et fils Ier), but among the better-known poets whose verse Chabrier did set in these early songs were Théodore de Banville ("Lied") and Alfred de Musset ("Adieux à Suzon").[3] Chabrier gave up his job at the Ministry of the Interior in 1880; as a full-time composer he set texts by Victor Hugo, Charles
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Ariettes oubliées L.60 (Forgotten Ariettas), DebussyVocal / Song cycle: Concert
Lamento, ViardotOratorio / Orchestral: Concert
Chanson triste, Duparc, H.Vocal / Song cycle: Concert
L'île heureuse, ChabrierSong: Concert
La Bonne Chanson, Op. 61, FauréVocal / Song cycle: Concert
Deux Sonnets de Jean Cassou, DutilleuxVocal / Song cycle: Concert
Mignonne, ChaminadeSong: Concert
L'arithmétique, CG 248, GounodSecular chorus: Concert
La Dame de Monte-Carlo (The Lady of Monte Carlo), PoulencOpera: Concert
Danse Macabre, op. 40, Saint-SaënsDance: Concert
Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, M. 84 (Don Quichotte to Dulcinea), RavelVocal / Song cycle: Concert
Nell, Op 18 No 1, FauréOratorio / Orchestral: Concert
2 Songs, Op.76, FauréSong: Concert
Trois Mélodies (Three Melodies), MessiaenVocal / Song cycle: Concert
Epigrammes de Clément Marot, RavelOratorio / Orchestral: Concert
Les Filles de Cadix, DelibesVocal / Song cycle: Concert
Pleurs d'or, op. 72 (Pleurs d'or Op. 72), FauréSong: Concert
Fêtes galantes, 1er recueil, DebussySong: Concert
Guitares et mandolines, Saint-SaënsOratorio / Orchestral: Concert
La diva de l'Empire (La Diva de l'Empire), SatieSong: Concert
Pastorale, Saint-SaënsDuettino: Con