CHABRIER, ALEXIS EMMANUEL

älĕksēˈ ĕmänüĕlˈ shäbrēāˈ, 1841–94, French composer. His best-known works are an orchestral rhapsody, España (1883); an opera, Le Roi malgré lui (1887); and piano pieces, such as Habanera (1885) and Bourrée fantasque (1891). Chabrier's works display vivid harmonic and orchestral color and musical drollery. His music influenced such French composers as Ravel and Satie.

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The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers Growth and Grandeur, 1815-1914
Book by Spire Pitou; Greenwood Press, 1990
Subjects: Opaera De Paris, Opera--France--Paris--Encyclopedias
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The Paris Opera: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers, Growth and Grandeur, 1815-1914 - Vol. 1
Book by Spire Pitou; Greenwood Press, 1990
Subjects: Opaera De Paris, Opera--France--Paris--Encyclopedias
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A Dictionary of Modern Music and Musicians
Book by Hugh Allen, Granville Bantock, Edward J. Dent, Henry J. Wood, A. Eaglefield-Hull; J. M. Dent & sons, ltd, 1924
Subjects: Music--Dictionaries, Musicians--Dictionaries
...regulations of an ideal State. He is at present living at Gardone Riviera Brescia . In 1924 he was ennobled by King Victor Emmanuel III. -- D. A. ANROOY, Peter van. Dutch condr. b. Zalt- Bommel Guelderland , 13 Oct. 1879. Stud. in Utrecht under...
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Maurice Ravel
Book by Victor I. Seroff; Henry Holt, 1953
Subjects: Ravel, Maurice--1875-1937, Ravel, Maurice--1875-1937--Discography
...them- Espana , the work of a Frenchman, Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier. Emmanuel Chabrier, then forty-eight years old, was one of the...suffered from the Wagnerian intoxication. Chabrier had been no exception; he also had made pilgrimages...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera
Book by John Warrack, Ewan West; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects: Opera--Dictionaries
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Emmanuel Chabrier & French Musical Tradition
Magazine article by James F. Penrose; New Criterion, Vol. 19, January 2001
Subjects: Chabrier, Emmanuel--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Composers--Criticism, interpretation, etc., France--Music, Musical criticism--Analysis
...is the link between the romanticism of Berlioz and the "impressionism" of Ravel and Debussy. An only child, Emmanuel Alexis Chabrier was born in January 1841 in the remote town of Ambert in the Massif Central. Located at the apex of a triangle...


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Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
CHABRIER, ALEXIS EMMANUEL alekse emanuel shabrea , 1841 94, French composer. His best-known...piano pieces, such as Habanera (1885) and Bourree fantasque (1891). Chabriers works display vivid harmonic and orchestral color and musical drollery...


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