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Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (March 27, 1851 – December 2, 1931) was a French composer and teacher. Description: Vincent dIndy Size: 234 &times 313 pixels Source: What We Hear in Music, Anne S. Faulkner, Victor Talking Machine Co. ... Description: Vincent dIndy Size: 234 &times 313 pixels Source: What We Hear in Music, Anne S. Faulkner, Victor Talking Machine Co. ... March 27 is the 86th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (87th in leap years). ... 1851 (MDCCCLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... December 2 is the 336th day (337th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link is to a full 1931 calendar). ... A composer is a person who writes music. ...

Life

D'Indy was born in Paris into a military family of royalist and Catholic persuasion. He had piano lessons from an early age but, to please his family, studied law. However, he decided to be a musician. He became a devoted student of César Franck at the Conservatoire de Paris. As a follower of Franck, d'Indy came to admire what he considered the standards of German symphonism. City flag City coat of arms Motto: Fluctuat nec mergitur (Latin: Floating not submerging) Paris Eiffel tower as seen from the esplanade du Trocadéro. ... Monarchism is the advocacy of the establishment, preservation, or restoration of a monarchy. ... A short grand piano, with the top up. ... Lady Justice or Justitia is a personification of the moral force that underlies the legal system (particularly in Western art). ... César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890), a composer, organist and music teacher of Belgian origin who lived in France, was one of the great figures in classical music in the second half of the 19th century. ... Former Conservatoire building (until 1911), still used as Théâtre du Conservatoire The Conservatoire de Paris (full contemporary name Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris) is a music school in Paris, France. ...

Vincent d'Indy, together with Charles Bordes and Alexandre Guilmant, founded the Schola Cantorum, a Franckist conservatory, in 1894. D'Indy taught there and at the Paris Conservatoire until his death. Although d'Indy was often accused of harboring vehement anti-Semitism (like his musical inspiration Wagner), which together with his lifelong monarchist bent led him to join the League de La Patrie française during the Dreyfus Affair in the late 1890s, he nevertheless won respect from fellow musicians totally opposed to his outlook, such as Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Debussy, Pierre Monteux, and Charles Munch. Among his many pupils were Erik Satie, Bohuslav Martinů, Albert Roussel, Isaac Albéniz, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud (whose family was Jewish) and Joseph Canteloube (who later wrote d'Indy's biography). This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Alexandre Guilmant (Boulogne-sur-Mer 1837 - Meudon 1911) was an French organist and composer. ... Schola Cantorum founded in 1894 in France by Vincent dIndy, was devoted to early music, and was an alternative to the Paris Conservatoire. ... The Eternal Jew: 1937 German poster. ... Wilhelm Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813 – February 13, 1883) was a German composer, conductor, music theorist, and essayist, primarily known for his operas (or music dramas as he later came to call them). ... Charles Camille Saint-Saëns () (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer and performer, best known for his orchestral works The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, and Symphony No. ... Achille-Claude Debussy (IPA ) (August 22, 1862 – March 25, 1918) was a French composer. ... Pierre Monteux (April 4, 1875 – July 1, 1964) was an orchestra conductor. ... Charles Münch (September 26, 1891 – November 6, 1968) was a French conductor and violinist. ... Selfportrait of Erik Satie. ... Portrait of Martinů Bohuslav Martinů ( ; December 8, 1890—August 28, 1959) was a Czech composer. ... Albert Roussel was a French composer. ... Isaac Albéniz Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz (IPA: ) (May 29, 1860 – May 18, 1909) was a Catalan pianist and composer, best known for his piano works that are based on Spanish folk music. ... Arthur Honegger in 1921. ... Darius Milhaud Darius Milhaud (IPA: ) (September 4, 1892 – June 22, 1974) was a French composer and teacher. ... Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret (1879 - November 4, 1957), was a French composer. ...

Few of d'Indy's works are performed regularly today. His best known pieces are probably the Symphonie Cévenole or Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français (Symphony on a French Mountain Air) for piano and orchestra (1886), and Istar (1896), a symphonic poem in the form of a set of variations. The Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français (English: Symphony on a French Mountaineers Song), op. ... This article does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Year 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1896 (MDCCCXCVI) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display calendar). ... A symphonic poem or tone poem is a piece of orchestral music, in one movement, in which some extra-musical programme provides a narrative or illustrative element. ... In music, variation is a formal technique where material is altered during repetition; reiteration with changes. ...

Among d'Indy's other works are other orchestral music, chamber music, piano music, songs and a number of operas, including Fervaal (1897). As well as Franck, d'Indy's works show the influence of Richard Wagner (he attended the premiere of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in 1876). Chamber music is a form of classical music, written for a small group of instruments which traditionally could be accommodated in a palace chamber. ... The New Opera in Oslo, Norway The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Italy. ... 1897 (MDCCCXCVII) was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the series of operas; for the film, see Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King. ... The Bayreuth Festspielhaus (Bayreuth Festival Theatre) is an opera house built to the north of the town of Bayreuth in Germany, dedicated to the performance of Richard Wagners operas. ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ...

D'Indy helped revive a number of then largely forgotten early works, for example, making his own edition of Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Incoronazione di Poppea. Portrait of Claudio Monteverdi in Venice, 1640, by Bernardo Strozzi. ... Lincoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea) is an opera seria in three acts by Claudio Monteverdi to an Italian libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello, based on historical incidents described in the Annals of Tacitus. ...

His musical writings include the co-written three-volume Cours de composition musicale (1903), as well as studies of Franck and Beethoven. 1900 (MCMIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Friday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar. ... 1820 portrait by Joseph Karl Stieler Beethoven redirects here. ...

D'Indy died where he was born, in Paris.

Works

• List of compositions by Vincent d'Indy

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Further reading

• Norman Demuth, Vincent d'Indy: Champion of Classicism (London, 1951)
• Steven Huebner, Vincent d'Indy and Moral Order' and 'Fervaal': French Opera at the Fin de Siecle (Oxford, 1999), pp.301-08 and 317-50

Vincent d'Indy (Marie d'Indy, ed.), Vincent d'Indy: Ma Vie. Journal de jeunesse. Correspondance familiale et intime, 1851-1931 (Paris, 2001). ISBN 2-84049-240-7

• James Ross, 'D’Indy’s Fervaal: Reconstructing French Identity at the Fin-de-Siècle', Music and Letters 84/2 (May 2003), pp.209-40
• Manuela Schwartz, Vincent d'Indy et son temps (Sprimont, 2006). ISBN 2-87009-888-X
• Andrew Thomson, Vincent d'Indy and his World (Oxford, 1996)
• Robert Trumble, Vincent d'Indy: His Greatness and Integrity (Melbourne, 1994)

External links

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• Free scores by Vincent d'Indy at the International Music Score Library Project (Public domain)