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" Vincent d'Indy wrote, after studying the and playing them with the composer: "I thus worked on these three waltzes con amore, doing my best to perform all the indications marked with the greatest precision.

Chabrier succumbed to in the last year of his life, dying in Paris at the age of 53.

Huebner puts the truth somewhere between the two, noting Wagner's influence in the similarities between Gwendoline and and , but noting Chabrier's "un-Wagnerian concision", the retention of conventional self-contained numbers, and Chabrier's recognisable melodic and instrumental characteristics.

An indulgent father, always merry, his pockets full of tasty tit-bits.

Works [ ] See also: Vincent d'Indy called Chabrier "that great primitive.

The same year Saint-Saens gave the first public performance of his 1865 Impromptu, his first piano piece of real importance with his personal stamp of originality.

Two of these portraits are reproduced above: a drawing of Chabrier at the piano 1887 by and Manet's Portrait de Chabrier oil on canvas, 1881.

In his introduction to a 1995 edition of the piano works, Howat writes that it was Chabrier, more than any other composer, who restored to French music "the essential French traits of clarity, emotional vitality, wit and tenderness" when other French composers were under the influence of Wagner or of dry academicism.

688 dedicated to Madame Manet• A piano piece, Le Scalp!!! He then found a new lyric project to tackle — The King in Spite of Himself — and completed the score in six months.

, Grove Music Online, Oxford University Press, 1992.

Through Chabrier's friendship with the Belgian tenor and subsequently the conductor , directors of opera houses in and Munich expressed interest in both works and Chabrier made several happy trips to Germany as a result; his works were given in seven German cities.

Scene from first Paris production of Gwendoline, 1893 L'etoile, an in three acts 1877 was Chabrier's first modestly successful opera, and is the most often revived.