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