Vincent D''indy and His World

Zusatztext Using documentation hitherto unavailable! This book now supersedes the earlier study by Vallas and becomes the standard work on d'Indy. Informationen zum Autor Freelance author and music critic Klappentext Over sixty years after his death in 1931, Vincent d'Indy is still a 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. D'Indy is revealed as a much more psychologically complex and turbulent character. A tireless propagandist for the spiritual revival of French musical civilization, he was confronted by the social and intellectual problems of the Third Republic, notably the uneasy position of religious and aesthetic values in modern liberal societies. Andrew Thomson's biography stresses the breadth of d'Indy's interests and preoccupations, and will be of interest to students and devotees of French music of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He lays particular emphasis on the importance of general philosophical ideas and literary works in the development of d'Indy's ideas and programmes. This is a significant contribution to the cultural history of the 'Proustian epoque'. Zusammenfassung A look at the life and work of Vincent d'Indy. This study should be of interest to academics and students of the composer, and those interested in the revival of early music in France and the cultural history of the "Proustian epoque".

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Thomson
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1997
• EAN: 9780198162209
• ISBN: 978-0-19-816220-9
• No. of pages: 260
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs; Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, 20th Century, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Biography: arts & entertainment, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters, Biography: arts and entertainment, Art music, orchestral and formal music, Western "classical" music