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Vincent d'Indy and his World (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R5,615
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Vincent d'Indy and his World (Hardcover, New): Andrew Thomson

Vincent d'Indy and his World (Hardcover, New)

Andrew Thomson

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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 Cesar 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 Varese. His own compositions likewise contain passages of astonishingly bold invention and modernistic effects, all too easily overlooked.

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Imprint: Clarendon Press
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 1996
First published: December 1996
Authors: Andrew Thomson
Dimensions: 224 x 144 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-816220-9
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > General
Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
Books > Music > Composers & musicians
Books > Music > Western music, periods & styles > General
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LSN: 0-19-816220-0
Barcode: 9780198162209

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