Emmanuel Chabrier
French Romantic composer and pianist · France · On the map · Musicians · Lived 1841 to 1894 · aged 53
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 by Édouard Detaille (1873)
Chabrier, 1880, by Manet, Ordrupgaard Museum, Denmark
Chabrier's tomb, Montparnasse cemetery (division 9), Paris.
Un bar aux Folies Bergère by Édouard Manet, completed in 1882 was among those sold from Chabrier's collection after his death.![Autour du piano, 1885, by Henri Fantin-Latour; Chabrier at the piano, and Vincent d'Indy standing, furthest right[http://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/collections/catalogue-des-oeuvres/notice.html?no_cache=1&nnumid=000214&cHash=34e19f6012 \"Henri Fantin-Latour, Autour du piano, en 1885\"], Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 16 September 2018"},"group":{"wt":"n"}},"i":0}}]}">[n 11]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Henri_Fantin-Latour_Autour_du_piano._1885.jpg/500px-Henri_Fantin-Latour_Autour_du_piano._1885.jpg)
Autour du piano, 1885, by Henri Fantin-Latour; Chabrier at the piano, and Vincent d'Indy standing, furthest right[http://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/collections/catalogue-des-oeuvres/notice.html?no_cache=1&nnumid=000214&cHash=34e19f6012 \"Henri Fantin-Latour, Autour du piano, en 1885\"], Musée d'Orsay. Retrieved 16 September 2018"},"group":{"wt":"n"}},"i":0}}]}">[n 11]About this person
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.
