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Vincent D'Indy
12+ albums
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Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy (27 March 1851 – 2 December 1931) was a French composer and teacher. 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. 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 Action Française for some time, 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). Few of d'Indy's works are performed with any regularity 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), a
top songs
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Karadec Suite, Op. 34: II. Chanson
3,7222Piano Sonata in E Minor, Op. 63: If. Premier mouvement du thème
8053Trio No. 2 en forme de Suite in G Major, Op. 98: I. Entrée, en Sonate: Modéré
3184Tableaux de voyage, Op. 33 (Excerpts): No. 4, Lac vert
2895Souvenirs, Op. 62 "Poème pour orchestre"
1986Lied, Op. 19 (version for cello and piano)
1917Symphonie sur un chant montagnard francais, Op. 25, "Symphonie cevenole": I. Assez lent - Moderement anime
1598Médée, op. 47: V. Le Triomphe Auroral
1489Istar, Op. 42
13710D'Indy: Poème des rivages, Op. 77: II. La joie du bleu profond - Miramar de Mallorca
136albums
d'Indy: Orchestral Works
d'Indy: Piano Sonata in E Minor, Op. 63 & Tableaux de voyage, Op. 33 (Excerpts)
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Horszowski Trio: Music of Fauré, Saint-Saëns and D'Indy
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D'Indy: Saugefleurie, Op. 21, Souvenirs, Op. 62 & Symphonie No. 3, Op. 70
Indy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5
d'Indy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 5
D'Indy: Piano Works, Vol. 3
d'Indy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 1
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D'Indy: Symphony No. 2, Souvenirs, Istar & Fervaal
D'Indy: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Indy, V. D': Piano Music, Vol. 1 - Poeme Des Montagnes / Tableaux De Voyage / Theme Varie, Fugue Et Chanson