【Emmanuel Chabrier作品欣赏】舞曲一组
Painter: Jan Steen
Piano duet：Pinuccia Giarmanà & Alessandro Lucchetti
Bourrée Fantasque for Piano Four Hands
Cortège burlesque for Piano Four Hands
Trois Valses Romantiques for Two Pianos
Piano: Ginette Doyen
Dix Pièces pittoresques - 7. Danse villageoise(Village dance)
Dix Pièces pittoresques - 10. Scherzo-Valse(Scherzo-Waltz)
Piano: Marcelle Meyer
Orchestral Works
Joyeuse marche for Orchestra - Ernest Ansermet and His Orchestra
España, Philadelphia Orchestra
Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier (January 18, 1841 – September 13, 1894) was a French Romantic composer and pianist. Although known primarily for two of his orchestral works, España and Joyeuse marche, he left an important corpus of operas (including the increasingly popular L'étoile), songs, and piano music as well. These works, though small in number, are of very high quality, and he was admired by composers as diverse as Debussy, Ravel, Richard Strauss, Satie, Schmitt, Stravinsky, and the group of composers known as Les six. Stravinsky alluded to España in his ballet Petrushka, Ravel wrote that the opening bars of Le roi malgré lui changed the course of harmony in France, Poulenc wrote a biography of the composer, and Richard Strauss conducted the first staged performance of Chabrier's incomplete opera Brisé?s.
Chabrier was also associated with some of the leading writers and painters of his time. He was especially friendly with the painters Claude Monet and édouard Manet, and collected Impressionist paintings before Impressionism became fashionable. A number of such paintings from his personal collection are now housed in some of the world's leading art museums.
Chabrier's friends from the artistic avant-garde in Paris included Gabriel Fauré, Ernest Chausson, and Vincent d'Indy, as well as painters Henri Fantin-Latour, Edgar Degas and édouard Manet, whose 'Thursday' soirées Chabrier attended, and writers such as émile Zola, Alphonse Daudet, Jean Moréas, Jean Richepin, Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam and Stéphane Mallarmé. On a trip to Munich with Henri Duparc in 1879, he discovered Wagner's masterpiece Tristan und Isolde. This event led him to realize his true passion for composition, and he quit the Ministry of the Interior in 1880. That year he composed his piano cycle Pièces pittoresques, of which the Idylle greatly influenced Francis Poulenc.
Chabrier plunged himself into the scores of Wagner, and became an important assistant to Charles Lamoureux in preparing concert performances of the German master's works in Paris. He travelled to London (1882) and Brussels (1883) to hear Wagner's Ring cycle. However, the strength of Chabrier's musical personality and his essential 'Frenchness' of temperament and sensibility made it impossible for him to do more than experiment with Wagner's more superficial technical procedures, without getting involved in the aesthetic and philosophical theories.
In 1882 Chabrier visited Spain, which resulted in his most famous work, España (1883), a mixture of popular airs he had heard and his own imagination. In the view of his friend Duparc, this composition for orchestra demonstrated an individual style that seemed to come from nowhere; other contemporary musicians were more condescending.
His opera Gwendoline, set in England during the Anglo-Saxon period, was refused by the Paris Opera but was a success at its premiere at La Monnaie in Brussels under Henry Verdhurdt in 1885. However, it closed after just two performances because the impresario went bankrupt. Despite this major disappointment, he soon found a new lyric project to tackle - Le roi malgré lui (The King in Spite of Himself) - and completed the score in six months. But bad luck intervened again when, having been well-received, its run at the Opéra-Comique in Paris ended when the theatre burned after the third performance. D'Indy felt Chabrier lavished some of his most beautiful music on Le roi malgré lui but condemned the libretto, complaining "people continually come in when they ought to go out and vice versa". Fortunately (through Chabrier's friendship with the Belgian tenor Ernest van Dyck and subsequently the conductor Felix Mottl), theater directors in Leipzig and Munich expressed interest in both works and Chabrier made several happy trips to Germany as a result.
On 13 July 1888 Chabrier was nominated to the order of Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur.
重要作品:
《星》（L'étoile，1877年）
《如画小品》（Dix Pièces Pittoresques，10首，1881年）√
《西班牙》（España, rapsodie pour orchestre，1883年）√
《关德琳》（Gwendoline，1885年）
《哈巴奈拉》（Habanera，1885年）√
《身不由己的国王》（Le roi malgré lui，1887年）
《快乐进行曲》（Joyeuse marche，1888年）√
《田园组曲》（Suite pastorale，1888年）
《幻想布列舞曲》（Bourrée Fantasque，1891年）√
《诙谐圆舞曲》（Scherzo Valse）
扬·哈菲克松·斯特恩（Jan Havickszoon Steen，约1626年 – 1679年2月3日下葬）是17世纪（即荷兰黄金时代）荷兰风俗画油画家。他的作品以心理洞察力、幽默感以及丰富的色彩为特点。
日常生活是斯特恩的主要绘画题材。他画的许多风俗场面，比如圣尼古拉斯节的盛宴（The Feast of Saint Nicholas），其活泼热烈已达到混乱和淫荡的地步。由此而来的荷兰语谚语een huishouden van Jan Steen即“一个扬·斯特恩家庭”意为一个混乱的场景。他画中微妙的暗示看来表示斯特恩旨在提醒观众，而并非请他仿效这种行为。斯特恩的许多油画都和老的荷兰谚语或文学有关。他经常用他的家庭成员作模特，但他的自画像却很少，在自画像里他也丝毫不显虚荣。
他对创作其他题材也毫不羞涩。他画过历史性、神话性和宗教性场景、肖像、静物以及自然场景。他的儿童肖像画非常著名。他也因其对光线的熟练运用以及注意细节而著称，最引人注目的是画中的波斯地毯及其他织物。
他非常多产，创作了大约800幅油画，其中约350幅流传至今。他的作品被同时代人估价很高，所以他卖画赚了很多钱。他的学生不多，现在只知道有理查德·布拉肯比赫（Richard Brakenburg）。但是他的画作给了无数画家以灵感。
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