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 | 1881 (1880-1881) |
| Premiered | 1881, April 9th |
| First published | 1881 in Paris, France |
| Dedicated to | Dedicated to Mme. Contesse de Narbonne-Lara (1) Mme. Marie Pillon (2) Mme. Marie Meurice (3) Mlle. Marie de la Guéronnière (4) Mme. Charles Phalen (5) Mlle. Jane Monvoisin (6) Mlle. Yvonne de Montesquieu (7) Mme. Marguerite Gagne (8) Mlle. Gabrielle Petitdemange (9) Mlle. Mina de Gabriac (10) |
| Catalogue | D 39 |
| Instruments | Piano |
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Emmanuel Chabrier: Suite pastorale, D 42
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