Emmanuel Chabrier

Title: L' toile Composer: Emmanuel Chabrier Original Publisher: Enoch The complete French vocal score to Chabrier's L' toile, as originally published in the first edition by Enoch in 1877. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage audience growth.

Originally for piano, Chabrier's Habanera was arranged for orchestra by the composer for a concert he conducted in Angers on November 4, 1888. The piano version was also the first to be published (Enoch Fr res et Costallat, 1885). The orchestral version, which is transposed up to D major, was not issued until 1889. The Habanera is a fine example of the Spanish genre which was so popular in the works of French composers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Richard W. Sargeant's newly engraved is based upon the 1889 first edition score and parts, the composer's manuscript having vanished during the second world war. The study score offered here is a reduced format reproduction of thr large conductor score which is also available along with the orchestral parts from Serenissima Music.

Title: Le Roi Malgr Lui Composer: Emmanuel Chabrier Original Publisher: Enoch The complete French language vocal score to Chabrier's Le Roi Malgr Lui, with piano reduction by Auguste Bazille, as originally published by Enoch in 1887. Performer's Reprints are produced in conjunction with the International Music Score Library Project. These are out of print or historical editions, which we clean, straighten, touch up, and digitally reprint. Due to the age of original documents, you may find occasional blemishes, damage, or skewing of print. While we do extensive cleaning and editing to improve the image quality, some items are not able to be repaired. A portion of each book sold is donated to small performing arts organizations to create jobs for performers and to encourage audience growth.

A travers plus d'un millier de lettres, pour la plupart inedites, la Correspondance d'Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) s'impose comme une des plus belles du monde musical. " Gai comme les pinsons et melodieux comme les rossignols ", ami des poetes et des peintres, Chabrier se disait avec raison " le moins illettre des musiciens ", et sa correspondance en est bien la preuve, portee par une verve et une gaiete communicatives, mais ou la drolerie et la cocasserie savent laisser place a la tendresse, a la melancolie et a l'emotion. Chabrier, qui savait pourtant qu'" on ne prend pas au serieux les gens qui rient ", a revendique la liberte de " faire du grand art gai et du grand art tragique " a cote d'operas " serieux " comme Gwendoline et Briseis (qu'il laissera inacheve), un opera-bouffe (L'Etoile), une operette (Une education manquee) et un opera-comique (Le Roi malgre lui), de savoureuses melodies, d'admirables pieces pour piano qui inaugurent l'impressionnisme musical et de splendides pages d'orchestre parmi lesquelles la rutilante Espana. On peut suivre au fil des lettres la genese et l'histoire de ces oeuvres, la collaboration du musicien avec ses librettistes et avec ses editeurs, mais aussi la vie musicale et theatrale du temps, et l'histoire de cette personnalite riche et chaleureuse, dans un style colore et vif qui fait de ces lettres autant de " pieces pittoresques " et de morceaux d'anthologie. C'est egalement le drame d'un adorateur fervent de la musique, ce " genie meconnu et malchanceux " salue par Ravel qui voyait en lui un " Dostoievski francais dont la correspondance, savoureuse et navrante a la fois, passionne tel un roman ".