Vincent d'Indy and His World

ISBN-13: 9780198162209 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 264 str.

Andrew Thomson

Opis

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.
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Recenzje

Using documentation hitherto unavailable, This book now supersedes the earlier study by Vallas and becomes the standard work on d'Indy.

O autorze

Freelance author and music critic