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Ernest Chausson (January 20, 1855 – June 10, 1899) was a late-blooming French romantic composer who died in an accident just as his career was beginning to flourish. January 20 is the 20th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ...
1899 (MDCCCXCIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
Romantic and romanticism have a number of uses: Titles: Romantic (song) by Karyn White. ...
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Life
Chausson was born in Paris into a well-to-do bourgeois family. His father made a fortune in the 1850s while assisting Baron Haussmann in the redevelopment of Paris. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Tossed by the waves, she does not sink) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Région Île-de-France Département Paris (75) Subdivisions 20 arrondissements Mayor Bertrand Delanoë (PS) (since 2001) City Statistics Land...
Georges-Eugène, Baron Haussmann (March 27, 1809 – January 11, 1891) was a French civic planner whose name is associated with the rebuilding of Paris. ...
To please his father, Chausson studied law and became a lawyer at the court of appeals but, in truth, he had little or no interest in the law. He frequented the Paris salons, where he met such celebrities as Fantin-Latour, Odilon Redon, and Vincent d'Indy. He dabbled in writing and drawing before definitely deciding on his career. Henri Fantin-Latour (January 14, 1836 - August 25, 1904) was a French painter and lithographer. ...
Self portrait, 1880, Musée dOrsay. ...
Photograph of Vincent dIndy Paul Marie Théodore Vincent dIndy (March 27, 1851 – December 2, 1931) was a French composer and teacher. ...
In October of 1879 at age 25, he began attending the composition classes of the opera composer Jules Massenet at the Paris Conservatoire. Chausson had already composed some piano pieces and songs but his first manuscripts that have been preserved are those corrected by Massenet. Jules (Émile Frédéric) Massenet (May 12, 1842 - August 13, 1912) was a French composer. ...
Conservatoire de Paris, or Paris Conservatoire, has been central to the evolution of music in France and Western Europe. ...
At the Conservatoire, Chausson also studied composition with César Franck, who had eschewed the fashionable avenue to opera and taken the lonelier path of composing orchestral and chamber music. It was Franck who became Chausson's main mentor and he, in turn, became an ardent disciple of César Franck. César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890), a composer, organist and music teacher of Belgian origin, was one of the great figures in classical music in France (and the world) in the second half of the 19th century. ...
Chausson enjoyed travel and in 1882 and 1883, he made the pilgrimage to Bayreuth to attends the operas of Richard Wagner. Chausson went the first time with d'Indy to see the premier of Parsifal, and the second with his new bride Jeanne Escudier. The Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Bayreuth Festival Theatre) is an opera house built to the north of the town of Bayreuth in Germany, dedicated to the performance of Richard Wagners operas. ...
Richard Wagner Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883) was an influential German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or music dramas as he later came to call them). ...
Amalie Materna Emil Scaria and Hermann Winkelmann in the 1882 premiere production of Parsifal Parsifal is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner. ...
From 1886 until his death in 1899, Chausson was secretary of the Société Nationale de Musique. He received many of the Paris artistic elite in his salon, including the composers Henri Duparc, Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, and Isaac Albéniz, the poet Mallarmé, the Russian novelist and playwright Ivan Turgenev, and the impressionist painter Claude Monet. Chausson also assembled an important collection of impressionist art. The Société Nationale de Musique was founded on February 25, 1871 to promote French music and to allow young composers to present their music in public. ...
Henri Duparc (January 21, 1848 – February 12, 1933) was a French composer of the late Romantic period. ...
Gabriel Urbain Fauré (May 12, 1845 – November 4, 1924) was a French composer, organist, pianist, and teacher. ...
Claude Debussy, ca. ...
Isaac Albéniz Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz (IPA: ) (May 29, 1860 – May 18, 1909) was a Catalan pianist and composer, best known for his piano works that are based on Spanish folk music. ...
Édouard Manet, Portrait of Stéphane Mallarmé . Stéphane Mallarmé (March 18, 1842 – September 9, 1898) was a French poet and critic. ...
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Chausson died in Limary, Seine-et-Oise, at the age of 44 as a result of a bicycle accident. He was buried in the celebrated Cimetière du Père Lachaise in Paris. Looking down the hill at the Père Lachaise cemetery The Cimetière du Père Lachaise is the largest cemetery in Paris, and one of the most famous cemeteries in the world. ...
Music The composer Chausson's work is commonly divided into three periods. The first period was dominated by Massenet and exhibits fluid and elegant melodies. The second period dating from 1886 is marked by a more dramatic character, benefitting by his contacts with the artistic milieux in which he moved. The third period dates from his father's death in 1894 and was influenced by his reading of the symbolist poets and Russian literature, particularly Turgenev, Dostoyevsky, and Tolstoy. Fyodor Dostoevsky. ...
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Chausson's work is uniquely Chausson but it reflects the influence of both Franck and Wagner. Other less pronounced influences included Massenet and Johannes Brahms. Chausson's compositional style bridges the gap between the Romanticism of Massenet and Franck and the Impressionism of Debussy. Johannes Brahms. ...
Chausson is noted for his many songs. He wrote one opera Le Roi Arthus (King Arthur).
His orchestral output was comparatively small. Surviving works include the Symphony in B Flat (his sole symphony); Poème for violin and orchestra (an important piece in the violin repertoire); and Poème de l'amour et de la mer (for voice and orchestra).
Chausson's œuvre is relatively modest in quantity. There are only 39 opus numbers.
Chausson is also noted in music circles as a man who suffered a freakish and untimely death. He road his bicycle straight into a brick wall and died instantly at the age of 44. It is not clear if he intended to die or was showing off for his friends.
Sources - Entry to Ernest Chausson in the French Wikipedia, translated by Frederick Hecht
- Liner notes by Edward Blakeman to the recording of Chausson's Symphony in B flat, Viviane, Soir de fete, and La tempete. Performed by the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Yan Pascal Tortelier, Chandos-9650 (CD), released 1999.
The BBC Philharmonic is a professional symphony orchestra based in Manchester, United Kingdom. ...
Internationally known French conductor, has worked and recorded extensively with the BBC Philharmonic in Manchester - for whom he was Principal Conductor from 1992 to 2004. ...
External links The Werner Icking Music Archive, often abbreviated WIMA, is a web archive of public domain sheet music. ...
See also List of compositions by Ernest Chausson This is a list of compositions by Ernest Chausson. ...
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