Vincent d'Indy and his World
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Vincent d'Indy and his World
Vincent d'Indy and his World

Vincent d'Indy and his World

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Andrew Thomson (Author)  

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Over sixty years after his death in 1931, Vincent d'Indy is still a much misunderstood and maligned figure in French music. Previous biographers have left a portrait of the academic figure par excellence, who turned the seemingly inspired and selfless inspiration of his master C'esar Franck into a cold and authoritarian pedagogical system. This new study re-examines the evidence, reveals a much more psychologically complex and turbulent character, and finds that d'Indy was a tireless propagandist for a spiritual revival of French musical civilization. Yet he was fully aware of the social and intellectual problems of the secular Third Republic which militated against his Dante-inspired Catholic humanism, embodied in the work of the Schola Cantorum, the Paris institution founded by d'Indy to reform the practice of sacred music. Far from being a pure reactionary, his outlook was in reality remarkably progressive, manifest in his revivals of early music, notably Monteverdi's Orfeo, his encouragement of Debussy, and his willingness to engage - often pugnaciously - with the latest musical manifestations of Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Var`ese. His own compositions likewise contain passages of astonishingly bold invention and modernistic effects, all too easily overlooked. 8 pp plates, music examples
Freelance author and music critic
  • Contributor: Andrew Thomson
  • Imprint: Clarendon Press
  • ISBN13: 9780198162209
  • Number of Pages: 260
  • Packaged Dimensions: 144x224x20mm
  • Packaged Weight: 432
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Release Date: 1996-12-05
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Freelance author and music critic

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