CHABRIER, ALEXIS EMMANUEL French composer, was born at Ambert, Puy de Dome, on Jan. 18, 1841, and first attracted general attention in 1883 by his brilliant orchestral rhapsody entitled Espana, the themes of which he had jotted down when travelling in Spain. His opera Gwendoline, pro duced at Brussels on April 10, 1886, was successful too and still more so its successor, of a lighter type, Le Roi malgre lui, which, was brought out in Paris at the Opera Comique.