List of compositions by Emmanuel Chabrier
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Orchestral works
- Lamento (1875)
- Larghetto for horn and orchestra (1875)
- España, rhapsody for orchestra (1883; also arranged by the composer for two pianos. Several other piano arrangements by other composers)
- Prélude pastoralJoyeuse marcheJoyeuse marche is a popular orchestra piece by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier. It is the second half of a pair of orchestral pieces first performed on 4 November 1888 in Angers, conducted by the composer...
and Joyeuse marcheJoyeuse marcheJoyeuse marche is a popular orchestra piece by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier. It is the second half of a pair of orchestral pieces first performed on 4 November 1888 in Angers, conducted by the composer...
(1888; Chabrier's orchestration of Prélude et marche française for piano 4-hands (1883/5)). - Suite pastorale (1888, orchestrations by the composer of four pieces from the Pièces pittoresques for piano)
Piano works
- Rêverie (1855)
- Julia, Grande Valse, Op. 1 (1857)
- Le scalp!!! (1861)
- Souvenirs de Brunehaut, Waltz (1862)
- Marche des Cipayes (1863)
- Suite des valses (1872)
- Impromptu in C major (1873)
- Pas redoublé (Cortège burlesque) for four hands (1881)
- 10 Pièces pittoresquesPièces pittoresquesPicturesque pieces are a set of ten pieces for piano by Emmanuel Chabrier. Four of the set were later orchestrated by the composer to make his Suite Pastorale.-Background:...
(1881) - Trois valses romantiquesTrois valses romantiquesThe Trois valses romantiques are a set of three pieces for two pianos by Emmanuel Chabrier.-History:Chabrier began the composition in mid 1880, completing the first two; the third was not completed until the summer of 1883...
for 2 Pianos (1883) (also orchestrated by Felix MottlFelix MottlFelix Josef von Mottl was an Austrian conductor and composer. He was regarded as one of the most brilliant conductors of his day. He composed three operas, of which Agnes Bernauer was the most successful, as well as a string quartet and numerous songs and other music...
) - Prélude et marche françaiseJoyeuse marcheJoyeuse marche is a popular orchestra piece by the French composer Emmanuel Chabrier. It is the second half of a pair of orchestral pieces first performed on 4 November 1888 in Angers, conducted by the composer...
for piano 4-hands (1883/5). Prélude orchestrated by Chabrier as Prélude pastoral, Marche française orchestrated as Joyeuse Marche (both 1888; the latter revised 1890, and also arranged for piano solo) - Habanera (1885, also orchestrated by the composer, 1888)
- Souvenirs de MunichSouvenirs de MunichSouvenirs de Munich is a quadrille on themes from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, for piano, four hands by Emmanuel Chabrier.-Background:Chabrier’s interest in Wagner dated from 1862, when as a study exercise he copied out the score of Tannhäuser...
, Quadrille on Favourite Themes from Tristan und Isolde for piano 4-hands (1885–86) - Bourrée fantasqueBourrée fantasqueBourrée fantasque is a piece of music for solo piano by Emmanuel Chabrier , being one of his last major completed works.-Background:...
(1891; orchestrated by Felix Mottl, 1898, Charles KoechlinCharles KoechlinCharles Louis Eugène Koechlin was a French composer, teacher and writer on music. He was a political radical all his life and a passionate enthusiast for such diverse things as medieval music, The Jungle Book of Rudyard Kipling, Johann Sebastian Bach, film stars , travelling, stereoscopic...
, 1924, Robin HollowayRobin HollowayRobin Greville Holloway is an English composer.-Early life:From 1952 to 1957, he was a chorister at St Paul's Cathedral...
(completion of Chabrier's unfinished orchestration), 1994) - Cinq morceaux (posthumous)
Songs
- Nine Songs (1862) (Couplets de Mariette, L'Enfant, Ronde gauloise, Le Sentier sombre, Lied, Chants d'oiseaux, Sérénade, Adieux à Suzon, Ah! petit démon!)
- Les lèvres closes (1867)
- L'invitation au voyage (1870, poem by Charles BaudelaireCharles BaudelaireCharles Baudelaire was a French poet who produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe. His most famous work, Les Fleurs du mal expresses the changing nature of beauty in modern, industrializing Paris during the nineteenth century...
) - Sérénade de Ruy Blas "À quoi bon entendre" (1873)
- Sommation irrespectueuse (1880, poem by Victor HugoVictor HugoVictor-Marie Hugo was a Frenchpoet, playwright, novelist, essayist, visual artist, statesman, human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France....
) - Tes yeux bleus (1883)
- Credo d'amour (1883)
- Chanson pour Jeanne (1886)
- 6 mélodies (1890) (Ballade des gros dindons, Villanelle des petits canards, Les Cigales, Pastorale des cochons roses, L'Île heureuse, Toutes les fleurs)
- Lied. Nez au Vent (posth.)
Other vocal works
- Cocodette et Cocorico. Comic duet for soprano, tenor and orchestra (1878)
- Monsieur et Madame Orchestre. Comic duet for 2 voices, choir and piano (1877-79)
- La SulamiteLa SulamiteLa Sulamite is a scène lyrique by Emmanuel Chabrier to words by Jean Richepin for solo voice, women's chorus and orchestra. The text of La Sulamite is based on extracts from The Song of Songs.-Background:...
. Scène lyrique for mezzo-soprano, female chorus and orchestra (1884) - Duo de l'ouvreuse de l'Opéra-Comique et de l'employé du Bon MarchéDuo de l'ouvreuse de l'Opéra-Comique et de l'employé du Bon MarchéThe Duo de l’ouvreuse de l’Opéra Comique et l’employé du Bon Marché is a comic vocal work by Emmanuel Chabrier for soprano and tenor, with piano accompaniment...
(1888) - À la musiqueÀ la musiqueÀ la musique is a vocal work by Emmanuel Chabrier for solo soprano, women’s chorus and orchestra . The words are by poet and playwright Edmond Rostand....
for soprano, female chorus and orchestra (piano) (1890, words by RostandRostandRostand may refer to:*Edmond Rostand was a French poet and dramatist.*Jean Rostand was a French biologist and philosopher....
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Pieces by others, after Chabrier
VerlainePaul Verlaine
Paul-Marie Verlaine was a French poet associated with the Symbolist movement. He is considered one of the greatest representatives of the fin de siècle in international and French poetry.-Early life:...
's sonnet À Emmanuel Chabrier (published in Amour, 1888) written just after the initial run of Le roi malgré lui is a tribute to their friendship.
Émile Waldteufel
Émile Waldteufel
Émile Waldteufel was a French composer of dance music.-Life:Émile Waldteufel was born in Strasbourg to a Jewish Alsatian family of musicians....
: España - Waltz after Chabrier, Op. 236 (quotes mainly from España but also a duo from Une éducation manquée).
Erik Satie
Erik Satie
Éric Alfred Leslie Satie was a French composer and pianist. Satie was a colourful figure in the early 20th century Parisian avant-garde...
: San Bernardo and Españaña (1913) quote España (dedicated to Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...
's daughter, Chouchou [Emma-Claude]).
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
: A la manière de... Chabrier (1913); Siebel's air from Act 3 of Charles Gounod
Charles Gounod
Charles-François Gounod was a French composer, known for his Ave Maria as well as his operas Faust and Roméo et Juliette.-Biography:...
's Faust
Faust (opera)
Faust is a drame lyrique in five acts by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part 1...
in the style of Chabrier.
The ballet Cotillon (Monte Carlo, 1932) with choreography by George Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchine , born Giorgi Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to a Georgian father and a Russian mother, was one of the 20th century's most famous choreographers, a developer of ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet...
uses music by Chabrier: ‘La toilette’ is the Menuet pompeux orchestrated by Vittorio Rieti
Vittorio Rieti
Vittorio Rieti was an Jewish-Italian composer. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Rieti moved to Milan to study economics. He subsequently studied in Rome under Respighi and Casella, and lived there until 1940....
, and ‘Danse des chapeaux’, ‘Les mains du destin’ and ‘Grand rond’ are, respectively, the Scherzo-valse, Idylle and Danse villageoise in Chabrier’s own orchestrations. Suite fantasque 'Divertissement in five tableaux' (Paris, 16 January 1948) with choreography by Jacques Etchevery, was produced at the Opéra-Comique (incorporating La bourée Fantasque, premiered in 1946).