Previous posts for January 18th are here: César Cui; Emmanuel Chabrier (2020), Emmanuel Chabrier, Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (2021), Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (2022), Emmanuel Chabrier (2023), and Alfonso Ferrabosco the Elder (2024)
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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.
A Man of Arts
Among his closest friends was the painter Èdouard Manet, and Chabrier collected Impressionist paintings long before they became fashionable. A number of such paintings from his personal collection by artists known to him are now housed in some of the world's leading art museums. – Wikipedia
Chabrier collected
Impressionist art,
It seems he selected
The best from the start.
Monet and Cezanne,
And Manet and Renoir,
Were hung in the john,
In the hall, and boudoir.
It isn’t that he
Was the richest of men;
They were practically free
In the galleries then,
But they never could be
Re-assembled again.
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