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Emmanuel Chabrier

1841 - 1894

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Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier (French: [ɛmanɥɛl ʃabʁie]; 18 January 1841 – 13 September 1894) 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 until the age of thirty-nine while immersing himself in the modernist artistic life of the French capital and composing in his spare time. From 1880 until his final illness he was a full-time composer. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, Chabrier left a corpus of operas (including L'étoile), songs, and piano music, but no symphonies, concertos, quartets, sonatas, or religious or liturgical music. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Emmanuel Chabrier is the 288th most popular composer (down from 252nd in 2019), the 1,246th most popular biography from France (down from 1,151st in 2019) and the 47th most popular French Composer.

Emmanuel Chabrier is most famous for composing the music for the opera "Pelléas et Mélisande" by Maurice Maeterlinck.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Emmanuel Chabrier ranks 288 out of 1,451. Before him are Franz Xaver Gruber, Eduard Hanslick, Anton Arensky, Valentyn Sylvestrov, Jacques Ibert, and Reynaldo Hahn. After him are Clemens Krauss, Princess Maria Antonia Koháry, Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Franz Benda, Ichirou Mizuki, and Wilhelmine of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Emmanuel Chabrier ranks 21. Before him are Félix Faure, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Armand Fallières, Gerhard Armauer Hansen, Ferdinand Buisson, and Armand Guillaumin. After him are Ernst Schröder, Victor D'Hondt, Clément Ader, Hermann Carl Vogel, Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsev, and Louis Le Prince. Among people deceased in 1894, Emmanuel Chabrier ranks 18. Before him are Hans von Bülow, Marie François Sadi Carnot, Prince Philippe, Count of Paris, John Sparrow David Thompson, Theodor Billroth, and Leconte de Lisle. After him are Nadezhda von Meck, Hassan I of Morocco, Austen Henry Layard, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Eugène Charles Catalan, and Nikolai Ge.

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In France

Among people born in France, Emmanuel Chabrier ranks 1,246 out of 6,770. Before him are Abbé Pierre (1912), Jean de Dunois (1402), Jacques Ibert (1890), Camille Jordan (1838), Michel Tournier (1924), and Princess Maria Amélia of Brazil (1831). After him are Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741), Prince Lorenz of Belgium, Archduke of Austria-Este (1955), Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy (1334), Francis III, Duke of Brittany (1518), Odo of Bayeux (1036), and Samy Naceri (1961).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Emmanuel Chabrier ranks 47. Before him are Ambroise Thomas (1811), Cécile Chaminade (1857), Francis Lai (1932), Vincent d'Indy (1851), Pierre Schaeffer (1910), and Jacques Ibert (1890). After him are Louis-Claude Daquin (1694), Gustave Charpentier (1860), Georges Auric (1899), André Campra (1660), Clément Janequin (1485), and Germaine Tailleferre (1892).

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