Chabrier

Once a week, I'd go to Pâtisserie Weibel (2 Rue Chabrier, Aix en Provence) and have tea.

Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day 2010

The music of Chabrier, who died in 1894, has never been widely popular outside of France, his native land.

The Smiling Genius 2010

Lambert may have been looking to start a fight, but he was right: Chabrier was important, not just because his music is enduringly beautiful but because it exemplifies an aspect of high art too often overlooked by po-faced prigs who would rather die than be caught having a good time at a concert.

The Smiling Genius 2010

But I recently looked through the 2010-11 programs of the Boston Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the San Francisco Symphony, and discovered to my dismay that not one of these ensembles will be performing anything by Chabrier.

The Smiling Genius 2010

What makes this neglect puzzling is that Chabrier has never lacked for high-class fans, among them George Balanchine, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky and the English composer-conductor-critic Constant Lambert, who called him "the first important composer since Mozart to show that seriousness is not the same as solemnity, that profundity is not dependent upon length, that wit is not always the same as buffoonery, and that frivolity and beauty are not necessarily enemies."

The Smiling Genius 2010

'For my part,' said Chabrier, 'my first concern is to do what pleases me while trying above all to express my personality; and my second is not to be a bore.'

The Smiling Genius 2010

Once a week, I'd go to Pâtisserie Weibel 2 Rue Chabrier, Aix en Provenceand have tea.

Que Faire a Aix-en-Provence? / What to do in Aix-en-Provence? - French Word-A-Day 2010

She had been given lessons by Emmanuel Chabrier, who used to spend the summer months in nearby Membrolle.

Yves Chauvin - Autobiography 2006

Someone - I think it was Chabrier - once said that there are only three types of music: good music, bad music and the music of Ambroise Thomas who was then head of the Paris Conservatoire.

A thought from Faure Jessica 2005

Chabrier, who only survived Franck a few years, ended his touching remarks at the grave with these words:

The World's Great Men of Music Brower, Harriette 1922