Wednesday, January 18, 2023

January 18 - Emmanuel Chabrier (The Musical Birthday Series, 4th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for January 18th are here: César Cui; Emmanuel Chabrier (2020), Emmanuel Chabrier, Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (2021), and Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (2022)

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Emmanuel Chabrier (18 January 1841 – 13 September 1894) was a French composer and pianist  who spent much of his life as a civil servant.

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Way


Denis Arnold and Roger Nichols write that Chabrier's lack of a formal musical education at one of the major conservatoires allowed him the freedom to "bypass the normal paths of French music of the 1860s, and to explore a new harmonic idiom and especially a novel way of writing for the piano". – Wikipedia


It’s sometimes true that amateurs

Have freedom from parameters

That in the course of training are

Instilled at the Conservatoire.


Chabrier was one of those

Who, tutored by the ones he chose,

Was free from shackles appertaining

To those with academic training.

 

 

 

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