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This essay discusses the life and work of Vincent d'Indy, who was a French composer and teacher. It argues that he was a complex and troubled individual, and that his music was motivated by a desire to promote a spiritual revival in French musical culture.
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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