Fisch-Ton-Kan is an opéra bouffe in one act by Emmanuel Chabrier of which only fragments survive. The French libretto was by Paul Verlaine and probably Lucien Viotti, after the 'parade chinoise' Fich-Tong-Khan ou l'orphelin de le Tartarie of 1835 by Thomas Sauvage (1794-1877) and Gabriel de Lurieu (1792-1869).
The title is tongue-in-cheek, as Fisch-Ton-Kan is a phonetic rendition of French fiche ton camp, which means "beat it!".
Composed around 1...
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Fisch-Ton-Kan is an opéra bouffe in one act by Emmanuel Chabrier of which only fragments survive. The French libretto was by Paul Verlaine and probably Lucien Viotti, after the 'parade chinoise' Fich-Tong-Khan ou l'orphelin de le Tartarie of 1835 by Thomas Sauvage (1794-1877) and Gabriel de Lurieu (1792-1869).
The title is tongue-in-cheek, as Fisch-Ton-Kan is a phonetic rendition of French fiche ton camp, which means "beat it!".
Composed around 1864, by when Verlaine and Chabrier had become good friends, only five complete numbers survive from this early comic work. Many of the situations recur in Chabrier's L'étoile: Goulgouly becomes Laoula, Fisch-Ton-Kan turns into Lazuli and Kakao is a trial run for Ouf Ier. The 'Air de Poussah' is re-used in his Ronde Champetre, a piano work of 1880.
Fisch-Ton-Kan was first performed with Chabrier at the piano at the ‘Cercle de l'Union artistique’ in Paris on 31 March 1875. The next performance was on 22 April 1941 at the Salle du Conservatoire,...
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