Vincent d’Indy was a French composer and teacher. It’s very hard to describe him and everything he was involved in in short – only a story about a school he founded is priceless, not to mention everything else, – but I’ll try. D’Indy was heavily influenced by Wagner and wrote a book about him where named the latter a savior of French music. And as even foreigners had participated in musical life of his homeland, d’Indy couldn’t remain indifferent himself and founded the Schola Cantorum de Paris – the first private music school in the country.
Schola is absolutely unique phenomenon in sense that it had been criticized for conservatism yet its graduates included Eric Satie and Edgard Varèse – composers who were breaking all conceivable musical rules on a permanent basis! As concerns this very critique, do not pay much attention: d’Indy wasn’t a retrograde by nature and in the beginning opposed to the musical establishment himself (once again, he dared to found independent music school). He had a strong personality and didn’t belong to neither impressionists nor academics. Here's his Sept chants de terroire, op.73, a piece enjoyable and, now that it is scored for piano four hands, uniting.
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