Emmanuel Chabrier

Emmanuel Chabrier (January 18, 1841 – September 13, 1894) is a French Romantic composer and pianist.

Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, he leaves 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 is admired by composers as diverse as Debussy, Ravel, Richard Strauss, Satie, Schmitt, Stravinsky, and the group of composers known as Les six.

Stravinsky alludes to España in his ballet Petrushka; Ravel writes that the opening bars of Le roi malgré lui changed the course of harmony in France; Poulenc writes a biography of the composer; and Richard Strauss conducts the first staged performance of Chabrier's incomplete opera Briséïs.

Chabrier is also associated with some of the leading writers and painters of his time.

He is especially friendly with the painters Claude Monet and Édouard Manet, and collects Impressionist paintings before Impressionism becomes fashionable.

A number of such paintings from his personal collection are now housed in some of the world's leading art museums.

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