Emmanuel Chabrier, French pianist and composer (died 1894)

Emmanuel Chabrier

French composer and pianist (1841–1894)

Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier 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…