Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier 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...
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Chabrier in 1882
Chabrier's birthplace in Ambert
Chabrier by Édouard Detaille (1873)
Chabrier, 1880, by Manet, Ordrupgaard Museum, Denmark
Chabrier's tomb, Montparnasse cemetery (division 9), Paris.
1890 edition of Joyeuse marche
Scene from first Paris production of Gwendoline, 1893
Un bar aux Folies Bergère by Édouard Manet, completed in 1882 was among those sold from Chabrier's collection after his death.Listen
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Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier 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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