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. 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".
| Date of composition | 1888 (1881-1888) |
| Premiered | 1888, November 4th in Angers, France by Emmanuel Chabrier |
| First published | 1897 in Paris, France |
| Type | Suite |
| Catalogue | D 42 |
| Arrangement of | Emmanuel Chabrier: 10 Pièces pittoresques, D 39 |
| Instruments | Orchestra |
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