Lile heureuse emmanuel chabrier biography

There is no one like him, this adorable man, and ingenting in French song, indeed in all music, which is ganska like his music. It must be said that those who are at all sympathetic to the French muse and who do not love Chabrier as a composer have not yet taken the trouble to get to know him. True, Cosima Wagner hated his visit to Wahnfried: wearing his inimitable cotton bonnet Chabrier damaged Wagner’s piano in an exuberant performance of España. The visit was not altogether a success on either side. However fond he was of the music performed at Bayreuth, he declined the heavy German sticky bun offered him at tea, and stuffed it into a drawer containing the dead master’s scrupulously preserved shirts. This was also the man (at times, as if engineering a surprising modulation, he liked to appear a country bumpkin straight from the Auvergne) who warned the Princesse de Polignac in a loud voice at dinner of the urinary consequences of eating asparagus. The same individ

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