Emmanuel Chabrier
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Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier was a French Romantic composer and pianist. His bourgeois family did not approve of a musical career for him, and he studied law in Paris and then worked as a civil servant un
Chabrier in 1882
Chabrier's birthplace in Ambert
Chabrier by Édouard Detaille (1873)
Chabrier, 1880, by Manet, Ordrupgaard Museum, Denmark
La Sulamite
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La 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.
Detail of Autour du piano by Henri Fantin-Latour (1885) showing Emmanuel Chabrier at the piano