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Other French composers whose music shows the influence of Chabrier include , Messager and.

Most of the piano pieces were published in the composer's lifetime, but five completed works and the unfinished Capriccio 1883 were issued posthumously.

wrote of the music that "in full, rapturous cognizance of mature Wagner", Chabrier composed "great music.

Through Chabrier's friendship with the Belgian tenor and subsequently the conductor , directors of opera houses in and Munich expressed interest in both works and Chabrier made several happy trips to Germany as a result; his works were given in seven German cities.

Chabrier was associated with some of the leading writers and painters of his time.

He became obsessed with the composition of his final opera , which was inspired by a tragedy of and has melodic echoes of Wagner; he completed only one act.

In 1873 he married Marie Alice Dejean, the granddaughter of Louis Dejean, who had gained his fortune as founder and manager of the and the.

Perhaps "grand operetta" is the best way of describing this problem piece".

The death of his beloved "Nanine" in January 1891 greatly affected him.

In his introduction to a 1995 edition of the piano works, Howat writes that it was Chabrier, more than any other composer, who restored to French music "the essential French traits of clarity, emotional vitality, wit and tenderness" when other French composers were under the influence of Wagner or of dry academicism.

Chabrier's early works were for piano solo, and in addition to a small corpus of about twenty completed mature works, some juvenilia have survived.

It met with what Poulenc calls "immediate and rapturous success", made Chabrier's reputation, and by public demand received multiple performances over the next months.