Joyeuse marche
Joyeuse marcheis a popular orchestra piece by the French composerEmmanuel Chabrier.It is the second half of a pair of orchestral pieces (the other wasPrélude pastoral) first performed on 4 November 1888 inAngers,conducted by the composer. TheJoyeuse marcheis dedicated toVincent d'Indy.[1]
Background
[edit]The march went through several versions before arriving at the popular orchestral version known today.
In September 1888 Chabrier wrote to his publisher that he would be orchestrating six piano pieces: four pieces from his piano suitePièces pittoresques(which would become hisSuite pastorale), as well asLa marche françaiseand theAndante in F.[1]Delage proposes that theAndantewas originally performed in 1875 at the Cercle de l'Union artistique in Paris, withJules Danbéconducting his orchestra. However, the pieces are also related to Chabrier'sPrélude et marche françaisefor piano 4-hands, completed by May 1885, theAndantehaving by then become aPrélude.[1]
The concert at which the premiere of thePrélude pastoralandJoyeuse marchetook place also included the first performance of Chabrier'sSuite pastoraleandHabañera,España(all conducted by the composer), plusRossini'sWilliam Tell Overture,Mozart's Divertimento No. 2 for two horns and strings and the Adagietto fromBizet'sL'Arlésienne.[1]
By the time of the Paris premiere in April 1889, the title had changed toMarche joyeuse.The piece was again enthusiastically received.[2]
The final version of the work's title was reached at aLamoureuxconcert on 16 February 1890, when the march became theJoyeuse marche.However, thePréludethen disappeared until it surfaced among autographs belonging to Robert Brussel in 1943.[1]TheJoyeuse marchebecame particularly popular, and was also played in a piano duet version.
The tempo marking for the march is 'Tempo di marcia molto risoluto e giocoso'.
Keyboard versions
[edit]- Prélude et marche françaisefor piano 4-hands, completed by May 1885[3]
- Joyeuse marchefor piano, four-hands - 1889[4]
- Transcriptions ofJoyeuse marchefor piano, four-hands for piano (1890) and for two pianos (1891) by Ernest Alder[1]
Instrumentation
[edit]Strings; 2 flutes, 1 piccolo, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B flat, 4 bassoons; 4 horns in F,[5]2 cornets à piston, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba; timpani, percussion (bass drum, cymbals, side drum, triangle); harp.
References
[edit]- ^abcdefDelage R.Emmanuel Chabrier.Fayard, Paris, 1999.
- ^Myers R.Emmanuel Chabrier and his circle.John Dent & Sons, London, 1969.
- ^First performed on a 1999 Arion recording by Alexandre Tharaud and Aleksandar Madzar. TheMorgan Library & Museumalso has a manuscript of a 'Rondo' "which later became the Marche joyeuse".
- ^First performed on 19 March 1892 byVincent d'IndyandErnest Chausson.
- ^Norman Del Marnotes that Chabrier frequently asks the horns to playbells up:"there is no substitute for the sheer riotous hilarity of Chabrier’sJoyeuse Marche... ". Del Mar N.Anatomy of the Orchestra.Faber & Faber, London, 1981.
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