Works For Piano

Emmanuel Chabrier (1841-1894): Obras para piano. Partitura general.

Ed.: 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 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 Pièces pittoresques (reprinted in this Dover edition) to be "as important for French music as Debussy's Préludes."
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.

Accompanying these reprints of authoritative French editions are Roy Howat's iluminating 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.

CONTENIDO:

Glossary of French Terms
- Introduction
Notes on the Music
Chabrier's Tempos
Sources and Variants

- Impromptu
- Ronde champêtre· Rustic round
- Petite valse · Little waltz
- Pièces pittoresques · Picturesque pieces
1. Paysage· Landscape
2. Mélancolie· Melancholy
3. Tourbillon· Whirlwind
4. Sous bois · In the woods
5. Mauresque· In Moorish style
6. Idylle· Idyll
7. Danse villageoise · Village dance
8. Improvisation
9. Menuet pompeux · Festive minuet
10. Scherzo-valse· Scherzo-waltz

- Aubade · Dawn serenade
- Habanera
- Ballabile· Dancelike
- Caprice
- Feuillet d' album · Albumleaf
- Joyeuse marche · Joyous march
- Bourrée fantasque · Fantastic bourrée