60 Minutes El Sistema The reason we do this. César Auguste Jean
Guillaume Hubert Franck César Franck was first and foremost a
brilliant organist. If he had never composed a note of music, we
still might know him as one of the best organists of the 19th
century. Here is a photograph (I think slightly re-touched as
they did then) of him at the organ, and he looks all in command.
Emmanuel Chabrier was employed by the government of France for
about 20 years in the Ministry of Interior, basically as a
lawyer. But in that time, he realized he could not socialize
with fellow workers. He was friends with the likes of the poet
Paul Verlaine, and the composers Gabriel Fauré, Ernest Chausson,
and Vincent d’Indy. But wait, we’re not done. He was also close
to painters such as Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, and Édouard
Manet. As a matter of fact, Manet literally died in his arms. I
have a painting of Chabrier by his friend Manet that I put in
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