Type: Book
by
- Emmanuel Chabrier
, Roy Howat
, ed
Twenty of the great French master's finest piano works, some long out of print: Impromptu (1873), Valse (1878), Ronde champêtre (1870's), 10 Pièces pittoresques (1880), Aubade (1883), Habanera (1885), Joyeuse marche (1888), Ballabile, Caprice and Feuillet d'album (1880's), and Bourrée fantasque (1891). Edited by pianist and musical scholar Roy Howat.
Emmanuel Chabrier
WORKS
FOR PIANO
Edited by Roy Howat
More than anyone else of his century, Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894) restored to French music the essential French traits of clarity, emotional vitality, wit and tenderness, at a crucial time when the music of his country was struggling under a Wagnerian hangover on the one hand and academic dryness on the other.
So potent was Chabrier's talent that Ravel repeatedly named him as the composer ro -• who had influenced him more than any other . . . Debussy was entranced by his
music . . . and even Stravinsky quotes from Chabrier's music, as did Cesar Franck while Chabrier was still alive. Francis Poulenc declared the composer's Pieces pittoresques (reprinted in this Dover edition) to be "as important for French music as Debussy's Preludes."
The 1994 centenary of Chabrier's death brought about a greatly revived appreciation of the composer's work. Largely instrumental in bringing this music to the attention of new audiences, editor Roy Howat concertized throughout Europe, performing and recording the piano music of Chabrier. He brought this experience and his special knowledge of the composer's work to bear in compiling this unique volume.
Included here are the finest solo piano pieces by this rediscovered French master,
among them a number of works long unavailable:
Impromptu Pieces pittoresques (10 pieces)
Ronde champêtre Joyeuse marche
Petite valse Caprice
Aubade Feuillet d'album
Habanera Bourrêe fantasque
Ballabile
Accompanying these reprints of authoritative French editions are Roy Howat's illuminating notes on the music, the composer, the sources of this updated edition and a detailed analysis of variants in the music.
Dover (1995) republication of music originally published in various authoritative French editions. Contents. Glossary. Introduction by Roy Howat. 144pp. 9 x 12. Paperbound.
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