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Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894)
Episode 4 of 4: A Bouillabaisse

The demise of Chabrier's brilliant comic opera, Le roi malgré lui, on the Paris stage sees the composer's reputation spread in Germany.

Chabrier must surely be one of the most likeable fellows to have graced this earth. It seems no-one had a bad word to say about him. His wide circle of friends included all the leading musicians, writers, poets and painters of the day. Chabrier owned a remarkable collection of impressionist paintings including several by Manet, who produced the best known portrait of the composer.

Emmanuel Chabrier's life slots into a fascinating point in French musical history. When he was born in 1841, Berlioz was already thirty-eight and famous, Saint-Saëns was six, while the rising stars of the future, Massenet and Fauré, were not yet born. Despite Wagner's dominance, and indeed Chabrier's own reverence for the German composer, Chabrier's music retains a staunchly Gallic individuality, with critics subsequently paying tribute to him as a "direct forerunner of the modern school." The reason for this may well relate, at least in part, to his studies. Chabrier was largely self-taught, and although he was better educated than most musical amateurs, he never followed the accepted route into the Paris Conservatoire or a similar institute. He trained first in law, only taking up full time composition in his thirties.

Today Donald Macleod looks at Chabrier's final comic opera, a work in which the riches and innovation of the music managed to overcome the deficiencies of a confusing plot and weak libretto. Fellow composer, Ravel, declared that its premiere had "changed the direction of French harmony.".

00:00
Emmanuel Chabrier
Le Roi malgre lui - opera comique in 3 acts
Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
Performer: Suisse Romande Orchestra.

00:08
Emmanuel Chabrier
Ode a la musique vers. for soprano, female chorus & orchestra
Conductor: Michel Plasson.
Performer: Barbara Hendricks.
Performer: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra.
Performer: Midi-Pyrenees Regional Chorus.

00:18
Emmanuel Chabrier
Suite pastorale for orchestra [from 4 of '10 Pieces pittoresques' for piano]
Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
Performer: Suisse Romande Orchestra.

00:40
Emmanuel Chabrier
Le Roi malgre lui - opera comique in 3 acts
Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
Performer: Chris de Moor.
Performer: French Radio Chorus.
Performer: French Radio New Philharmonic Orchestra.

00:52
Emmanuel Chabrier
Le Roi malgre lui - opera comique in 3 acts
Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
Performer: Barbara Hendricks.
Performer: Isabel Garcisanz.
Performer: French Radio New Philharmonic Orchestra.

First broadcast: 02 Jan 2015 (b04vdswn)
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