| Edition |
1st American ed. |
| Description |
xii, 178 pages : illustrations, portraits, music, facsimiles ; 22 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
List of works: pages 163-167. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-170) and index. |
| Contents |
Childhood and early years ; Paris and first contacts with the world of art and music ; friendship with Verlaine -- Visits Holland and Belgium ; marriage and the Franco-Prussian war ; wins recognition with L'Etoile and Une éducation manquée -- Hears Tristan in Munich ; decides on music as a career ; works with Lamoureux ; writes Dix pièces pittoresques -- Travels in Spain ; success of España ; writes Trois valses romantiques -- La Revue Wagnérienne ; production of Gwendoline in Brussels ; the opera described -- La Roi malgré lui ; meets Felix Mottl ; Gwendoline produced in Karlsruhe -- Le Roi in Germany ; composition of Joyeuse Marche and Ballade des gros dindons and other songs ; failing health ; life in Touraine -- Last works: Gwendoline at Paris Opéra ; death of Chabrier -- The man and his music ; his letters and place in nineteenth-century music -- Chabrier and the Impressionists ; collector and connoisseur. |
| Note |
PSU Kansas Collec. Clugston. Given in the memory of Will Humble. |
| Subject |
Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894 -- Friends and associates.
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Composers -- France -- Biography.
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Chabrier, Emmanuel, 1841-1894. (OCoLC)fst00042571
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Composers. (OCoLC)fst00871620
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Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
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France. (OCoLC)fst01204289
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| ISBN |
0838678335 |
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9780838678336 |
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