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    Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier, January 18, 1841 - September 13, 1894) Was A French Romantic

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    Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist known primarily for his orchestral works España and Joyeuse marche. He had a career in the French Ministry of the Interior but was passionate about music, composing piano and orchestral works in the 1860s. He resigned from the ministry in 1880 to focus on music and was part of a group of pro-Wagnerians in Paris. His most famous work España, composed in 1883 after a trip to Spain, blended popular Spanish airs with his own compositions.

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    Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist known primarily for his orchestral works España and Joyeuse marche. He had a career in the French Ministry of the Interior but was passionate about music, composing piano and orchestral works in the 1860s. He resigned from the ministry in 1880 to focus on music and was part of a group of pro-Wagnerians in Paris. His most famous work España, composed in 1883 after a trip to Spain, blended popular Spanish airs with his own compositions.

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    Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist known primarily for his orchestral works España and Joyeuse marche. He had a career in the French Ministry of the Interior but was passionate about music, composing piano and orchestral works in the 1860s. He resigned from the ministry in 1880 to focus on music and was part of a group of pro-Wagnerians in Paris. His most famous work España, composed in 1883 after a trip to Spain, blended popular Spanish airs with his own compositions.

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    Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier, January 18, 1841 September 13, 1894) was a French Romantic

    composer and pianist. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, Espaa and
    Joyeuse marche, he left an important corpus of operas, songs, and piano music.
    Chabrier entered law school from which he graduated in 1861, and on 29 October that year
    began a career at the French Ministry of the Interior. Despite this, his passion was music; during
    the 1860s he composed a number of minor piano works. His interest in Wagner began at this
    time, and he copied out the orchestral score of Tannhuser. In 1862 he entered the circle of the
    Parnassians in Paris.
    He resigned from the Ministry of the Interior in 1880 to pursue music.
    He was also to be found with le petit Bayreuth, a group of pro-Wagnerians, who would meet to
    play works by Wagner.
    In 1882 Chabrier visited Spain, which resulted in his most famous work, Espaa (1883), a
    mixture of popular airs he had heard and his own imagination.
    Gustav Mahler called Espaa the beginnings of modern music and alluded to the "Dance
    Villageoise" in the Rondo Burleske movement of his Ninth Symphony.
    The wife of Renoir, a friend of Chabrier, wrote: "one day Chabrier came; and he played his
    Espaa for me. It sounded as if a hurricane had been let loose. He pounded and pounded the
    keyboard. The street was full of people, and they were listening, fascinated. When Chabrier
    reached the last crashing chords, I swore to myself I would never touch the piano again...Besides,
    Chabrier had broken several strings and put the piano out of action. Alfred Bruneau recalled that
    "he played the piano as no one has ever played it before, or ever will"

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