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[[ImageFile:Fantin-Latour_Autour_du_piano.jpg|thumb|450 px|right|''Autour du piano'', oil on canvas 1885 by [[Henri Fantin-Latour]]; Chabrier at the piano, Adolphe Julien, Arthur Boisseau, Camille Benoît, [[Edmond Maître]], Antoine Lascoux, [[Vincent d'Indy]] and Amédée Pigeon grouped around.]]

'''''Pièces pittoresques''''' (''Picturesque pieces'') are a set of ten pieces for [[piano]] by [[Emmanuel Chabrier]]. Four of the set were later [[Orchestration|orchestrated]] by the composer to make his [[Pièces pittoresques#Suite_pastorale|Suite pastorale]]'''''.

==Background==

[[Image:Fantin-Latour_Autour_du_piano.jpg|thumb|450 px|right|''Autour du piano'', oil on canvas 1885 by [[Henri Fantin-Latour]]; Chabrier at the piano, Adolphe Julien, Arthur Boisseau, Camille Benoît, [[Edmond Maître]], Antoine Lascoux, [[Vincent d'Indy]] and Amédée Pigeon grouped around.]]

In 1880, while on a convalescent holiday at the coastal resort of Saint-Pair (near [[Granville, Manche|Granville]]), Chabrier composed what were to be called ''Pièces pittoresques''.<ref name="Delage">Delage R. ''Emmanuel Chabrier''. Fayard, Paris, 1999.</ref>

Both [[Alfred Cortot]] (in ''La musique française de piano'', PUF, 1932) and [[Francis Poulenc]] (''Emmanuel Chabrier'', 1961) discuss these short works enthusiastically. [[César Franck]], at their premiere in 1881, remarked that those present had "just heard something exceptional. This music links our own time to that of [[François Couperin|Couperin]] and [[Jean-Philippe Rameau|Rameau]]".<ref>Quoted in Delage, p252.</ref>