Joyeuse marche

• Joyeuse marche (originally published as “Marche française”), was composed in 1888.
• This is Chabrier’s orchestration of an earlier piece of his, a Rondo for piano four-hands
• Listen for: insistent, almost humorously overdone rhythmic intensity
  • There is a passage in this piece marked in the score, “trés rude”
• Chabrier conducted the premiere of this piece. Apparently he and the orchestra had a hilarious time rehearsing it: Chabrier wrote to his wife that the orchestra was “in stitches.”

“I shape my musical phrases with my Auvergnat clogs”

Chabrier, on his thumpy rhythms. Chabrier was born in a rural village in the Auvergne.¹

1. Roy Howatt, ed., Emmanuel Chabrier: Works for Piano (New York: Dover, 1995), xi.
2. Steven Huebner, “Chabrier, (Alexis-)Emmanuel,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed August 19, 2019, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000005351.