Emmanuel Chabrier

Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier   (January 18, 1841 – September 13, 1894) was a French Romantic composer and pianist. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, he left an important corpus of operas (including the increasingly popular L'étoile), songs, and piano music as well. These works, though small in number, are of very high quality, and 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 España in his ballet Petrushka, Ravel wrote that the opening bars of Le roi malgré lui changed the course of harmony in France, Poulenc wrote a biography of the composer, and Richard Strauss conducted the first staged performance of Chabrier's incomplete opera Briséïs.
Chabrier was also associated with some of the leading writers and painters of his time. He was especially friendly with the painters Claude Monet and Édouard Manet, and collected Impressionist paintings before Impressionism became fashionable. A number of such paintings from his personal collection are now housed in some of the world's leading art museums.
Chabrier – Feuillet d'album Various Artists – Classics for your Pregnancy – Pregnancy Classical Music for Relaxation and Meditation
Emmanuel Chabrier – Rhapsodie Espana Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – A Calendar Of Classics - October
Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel – Chabrier: Larghetto for Horn and Orchestra - Larghetto for Horn and Orchestra Hermann Baumann & Gewandhausorchester Leipzig & Kurt Masur – French Horn Music
Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel – Chabrier: Fête polonaise - Fête polonaise Detroit Symphony Orchestra & Paul Paray
Alexis Emanuel Chabrier – Marche Joyeuse 21st Century Symphony Orchestra
Emmanuel Chabrier – Chabrier: Les cigales Susan Graham – Un Frisson Français - A Century of French Song
Emmanuel Chabrier – Suite Pastorale: Idylle  Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Wiener Philharmoniker – Chabrier: Gwendoline - Overture Wiener Philharmoniker & John Eliot Gardiner – Chabrier: España; Suite pastorale
Georges Gautier/Michel Fockenoy/René Schirrer/Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon/Sir John Eliot Gardiner – L' Étoile, ACT 1: No. 1 - Chanson à 2 voix et choeur: "Du monde! ... De ma main, cher camarade" (Ouf/Patacha/Zalzal) Sir John Eliot Gardiner/Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Lyon – Chabrier - L'Etoile
Chabrier, Alexis Emmanuel – Chabrier: Danse slave - Danse slave Detroit Symphony Orchestra & Paul Paray
Emmanuel Chabrier – Le Roi Malgré Lui: Act I, I. Prélude
Emmanuel Chabrier – Pièces pittoresques 1. Paysage Marcelle Meyer – Piano Performances 1925-1957
Rena Kyriakou – Suite de Valse Rena Kyriakou & Walter Klien – Chabrier: Complete Piano Music
Emmanuel Chabrier – Works: Air de ballet  – Rarities of Piano Music 1987-1988 Peter Froundjian
Wiener Philharmoniker – Chabrier: Suite pastorale - 2. Danse villageoise Wiener Philharmoniker & John Eliot Gardiner – Chabrier: España; Suite pastorale
Wiener Philharmoniker – Chabrier: Suite pastorale - 3. Sous-bois
Wiener Philharmoniker – Chabrier: Suite pastorale - 4. Scherzo-Valse
Franck Leguérinel, François Charruyer – Ronde gauloise Agnès Mellon, Franck Leguérinel, Françoise Tillard, François Charruyer – Emmanuel Chabrier: Complete Songs/Les Mélodies
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra – Jocelyn: Berceuse Various Artists – French Masters: Ravel, Debussy, Chabrier, Godard, Poulenc, Ibert, Duparc, Duruflé
In his final years, Chabrier was strained by financial problems caused by the collapse of his bankers, suffered from failing health brought on by the terminal stage of syphilis, and depression about the neglect of his stage works in France. The death of his beloved 'Nanine' in January 1891 greatly affected him. He became obsessed with the composition of his opera Briséïs, which was inspired by a tragedy of Goethe and melodic echos of Wagner, but he completed only one act. At the Paris premiere of Gwendoline, which finally took place in December 1893, the ailing composer in a box did not understand that the applause was for him. In 1892 he had written to his friend Lecocq: "Never has an artist more loved, more tried to honor music than me, none has suffered more from it; and I will go on suffering from it for ever".
He succumbed to general paralysis in the last year of his life, dying in Paris at the age of 53. Although he had asked to be buried near the tomb of Manet, he was laid to rest in the cemetery of Montparnasse.