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Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
Episode 1 of 4: The Bon Vivant

Donald Macleod explores the engaging personality and music of Emmanuel Chabrier, a man whose reputation has come to rest on a handful of hits, yet whose originality is acknowledged by some of the leading voices of French music in the twentieth century, among them Debussy and Ravel.

Chabrier must surely be one of the most likeable fellows to have graced this earth. It seems no-one had a bad word to say about him. His wide circle of friends included all the leading musicians, writers, poets and painters of the day. Chabrier owned a remarkable collection of impressionist paintings including several by Manet, who produced the best known portrait of the composer.

Emmanuel Chabrier's life slots into a fascinating point in French musical history. When he was born in 1841, Berlioz was already thirty-eight and famous, Saint-Saëns was six, while the rising stars of the future, Massenet and Fauré, were not yet born. Despite Wagner's dominance, and indeed Chabrier's own reverence for the German composer, Chabrier's music retains a staunchly Gallic individuality, with critics subsequently paying tribute to him as a "direct forerunner of the modern school." The reason for this may well relate, at least in part, to his studies. Chabrier was largely self-taught, and although he was better educated than most musical amateurs, he never followed the accepted route into the Paris Conservatoire or a similar institute. He trained first in law, only taking up full time composition in his thirties.

In the first of the series, Donald Macleod traces Chabrier's roots from a childhood spent in provincial Auvergne to the salons of Paris, where his engaging personality charmed all the leading artists of the day, eventually leading to success with a sparkling confection for stage, l'Étoile.

00:01
Emmanuel Chabrier
Joyeuse marche vers. for orchestra
Orchestra: Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra.
Director: Hervé Niquet.

00:07
Emmanuel Chabrier
L' Etoile - opera bouffe - Duetto de la chartreuse verte
Singer: Gabriel Bacquier.
Singer: Georges Gautier.
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner.
Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra.

00:13
Emmanuel Chabrier
Bourree fantasque for piano
Performer: Allan Schiller.

00:21
Emmanuel Chabrier
Une Education manquee - operetta in 1 act
Singer: Brigitte Desnoues.
Singer: Jean-Louis Georgel.
Orchestra: Collegium Musicum Strasbourg.
Singer: Mireille Delunsch.
Conductor: Roger Delage.

00:33
Emmanuel Chabrier
Larghetto for horn and orchestra
Performer: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra.
Conductor: Michel Plasson.
Performer: Pierre del Vescovo.

00:46
Emmanuel Chabrier
L' Etoile - opera bouffe in 3 acts - Act 1 excerpt
Singer: Ghyslaine Raphanel.
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner.
Singer: Magali Chalmeau-Damonte.
Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra.
Singer: Colette Alliot-Lugaz.

First broadcast: 29 Dec 2014 (b04vdkr2)
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