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This week, in the 1 o'clock hour of Intermezzo, hear the music of French composer Ernest Chausson in honour of his would-be 169th birthday. Amédée-Ernest Chausson was born into an affluent bourgeois family in Paris on January 20, 1855. As the youngest and only surviving of three sons, he grew up interested in the arts, spending formative years moving amongst artistic elite in Parisian salons. Though well-versed in literature, music and art, Chausson fulfilled his father’s wishes that his son become a lawyer, earning a degree and then a doctorate before being sworn in as a lawyer in Paris in 1877. Just two years later, Chausson abandoned the profession, dedicating himself to music full-time. Enrolling at the Paris Conservatoire, he studied as a pupil of Jules Massenet and Cesar Franck, taking great inspiration from the latter. In addition to Franck’s writing, the operas of Richard Wagner also helped shape the musical style of Chausson. googletag.cmd.push(function() { if($(document).width()<900) { s
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