Emmanuel Chabrier (18 January 1841 – 13 September 1894) was a French composer and pianist who spent much of his life as a civil servant.
[For last year's confections on César Cui and Emmanuel Chabrier click here.]
Of All the Gall
The French composer Chabrier
Composed his own eccentric way;
Self-taught, piquant, unorthodox,
He thought with ease outside the box.
And that is all I have to say
About composer Chabrier.
Alfonso Ferrabosco (the Elder) (bapt.18 January 1543 – 12 August 1588) was an Italian composer who the one mainly responsible for the growth of the madrigal in England.
Sing Ye
The elder Alfonso Ferrabosco
Brought madrigals to Britain.
Consider, if it had been not so,
What wouldn’t have been written.
Without the madrigals by Morley,
And Wilbye and that sort,
They would have passed the time more poorly
In Gloriana’s court.
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