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Where to start with Chabrier
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles
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Orchestral
España, rhapsody for orchestra
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Keyboard
10 Pièces pittoresques
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Vocal
6 Mélodies, for voice and piano
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Stage
Gwendoline — Opera
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Orchestral
Joyeuse marche
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Orchestral
Bourree fantasque, for orchestra
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Orchestral
Suite pastorale
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Keyboard
3 Valses romantiques, for 2 pianos or orchestra
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Keyboard
5 Morceaux
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Keyboard
5 Pièces posthumes
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Keyboard
Air de ballet
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Vocal
Ballade des gros dindons
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Keyboard
Bourrée fantasque
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Keyboard
Capriccio
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Vocal
Chanson pour Jeanne
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Chabrier's catalogue
Most Popular
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España (rhapsody)
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Le Roi malgré lui (opera)
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Bourrée fantasque
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Habanera (piano)
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Joyeuse Marche
Most Acclaimed
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Gwendoline (opera)
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España
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Dix pièces pittoresques (piano)
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Le Roi malgré lui
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Trois valses romantiques (two pianos)
Most Weird
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Bourrée fantasque
intentionally grotesque — Ravel and Debussy called it the most important French piano piece before them
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Le souvenirs de Munich
piano four-hands — polka/waltz on Wagner themes; affectionate mockery
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Impromptu (piano)
harmonically adventurous beyond anything he wrote elsewhere
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Trois valses romantiques
two pianos — the waltzes keep threatening to become something else
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Larghetto for horn and orchestra
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinity
Works 38
- Orchestral
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● España, rhapsody for orchestra
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● Joyeuse marche
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Bourree fantasque, for orchestra
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Suite pastorale
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Fête polonaise
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Lamento
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Larghetto for Horn and Orchestra
- Keyboard
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10 Pièces pittoresques
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3 Valses romantiques, for 2 pianos or orchestra
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5 Morceaux
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5 Pièces posthumes
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Air de ballet
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Bourrée fantasque
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Capriccio
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Cortege burlesque, for keyboard
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Feuillet d'album
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Habañera
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Impromptu in C
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Julia, waltz
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Marche des Cipayes
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Pas redoublé, for solo piano or piano, 4 hands
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Petite valse
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Prelude et marche francaise, for keyboard
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Prélude et Marche Française, for piano 4-hands
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Prélude pastorale, for piano 4-hands
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Souvenir d'España, for 1 Piano-6 Hands
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Souvenirs de Brunehault, waltzes
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Souvenirs de Munich, quadrille on themes from Wagner's 'Tristan and Isolde,' for piano 4-hands
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Suite de valses
- Vocal
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6 Mélodies, for voice and piano
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Ballade des gros dindons
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Chanson pour Jeanne
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L'invitation au voyage, for voice and piano
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Les plus jolies chansons du pays de France, song cycle for voice and piano
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Pastorales des cochons roses
- Stage
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Gwendoline
— Opera
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L' Étoile, opéra-bouffe in 3 acts
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Le roi malgré lui
Canon