- This is the fourth movement of Chabrier’s Suite pastorale.
- Chabrier dedicated the original piano version of this piece to Mathilde “Mina” de Gabriac1. Mina was the daughter of an American heiress and a French count. Chabrier was a friend of the family and visited them frequently in Paris. 2
Sources
- “10 Pièces pittoresques (Chabrier, Emmanuel),” IMSLP, accessed February 19, 2020, https://imslp.org/wiki/10_Pi%C3%A8ces_pittoresques_(Chabrier%2C_Emmanuel).
- Richard Jay Hutto, A Poisoned Life: Florence Chandler Maybrick, the First American Woman Sentenced to Death in England (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2018), 122.
Cut IDs
18478