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- Title
VINCENT D'INDY AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FRENCH SYMPHONY.
- Authors
Hart, Brian
- Abstract
Vincent d'Indy played a central role in the development of the symphony in fun de sièrle France. He lobbied the Conservatoire to add it to its curriculum and, after founding the composition programme at the Schola Cantorum, he became the first in the nation to lecture systematically on the symphony; he gave students a historical overview of the genre as well as practical lessons on how to write such works. He conducted contemporary symphonies on numerous tours both in France and abroad. Two of his own symphonies influenced future directions--the first being based on a folksong, the other by using the medium of the symphony to proclaim a philosophical message. Three notable symphonies of the next generations--Albéric Magnard, Albert Roussel, and Arthur Honegger--studied with d'Indy; each adopted a distinctive approach to the symphony, but all three bear various traces of d'Indy's legacy as a teacher and as a composer of symphonies.
- Subjects
FRANCE; SYMPHONY -- History &; criticism; D'INDY, Vincent; CONSERVATORIES; HONEGGER, Arthur; MAGNARD, Alberic, 1865-1914; ROUSSEL, Albert
- Publication
Music & Letters, 2006, Vol 87, Issue 2, p237
- ISSN
0027-4224
- Publication type
Abstract
- DOI
10.1093/ml/gci231