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''Pièces pittoresques'' (''Picturesque pieces'') are a set of ten pieces for piano by Emmanuel Chabrier. Four of the set were later orchestrated by the composer to make his Suite pastorale''. ==Background== In 1880, while on a convalescent holiday at the coastal resort of Saint-Pair (near Granville), Chabrier composed what were to be called ''Pièces pittoresques''.〔Delage R. ''Emmanuel Chabrier''. Fayard, Paris, 1999.〕 Both Alfred Cortot (in ''La musique française de piano'', PUF, 1932) and Francis Poulenc (''Emmanuel Chabrier'', 1961) discuss these short works enthusiastically. César Franck, at their premiere in 1881, remarked that those present had "just heard something exceptional. This music links our own time to that of Couperin and Rameau".〔Quoted in Delage, p252.〕 The manuscript in the archive of Litolff publishers was destroyed by an air-raid on Brunswick in 1942.〔 The first performances of individual pieces took place on different dates: 9 April 1881 for ''Sous-bois'', ''Idylle'', ''Danse villageoise'', ''Improvisation'', ''Menuet pompeux'', ''Scherzo-valse'' (Marie Poitevin); ''Mélancolie'' on 24 December 1887 (Marie-Léontine Bordes-Pène); others unknown.〔 Several of the movements were incorporated by Constant Lambert in the 1934 ballet ''Bar aux Folies-Bergère''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pièces pittoresques」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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