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Composer of the Week: Chabrier

on BBC Radio 3

3/5. In Chabrier's time Wagnerism was all the rage in France and the music he heard on a trip to Munich in 1879 with Henri Duparc moved him to tears. Chabrier asserted that he only adopted elements of Wagner's ideals and was able to keep a firm hold on his own compositional approach. Donald Macleod considers this claim. Repeated from Wednesday at 12 noon

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Henri Duparc
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Donald MacLeod

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