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César Franck. César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (French pronunciation: [sezaʁ oɡyst ʒɑ̃ ɡijom ybɛʁ fʁɑ̃k]; 10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher born in present-day Belgium. He was born in Liège (which at the time of his birth was part of the United ...
César Franck (born Dec. 10, 1822, Liège, Neth.—died Nov. 8, 1890, Paris, France) was a Belgian-French Romantic composer and organist who was the chief figure in a movement to give French music an emotional engagement, technical solidity, and seriousness comparable to that of German composers. Franck was born of a Walloon father and a mother ...
Eccles Organ Festival Live from The Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, UT1 May 2022, at 8:00 PM MSTGabriele Terrone, OrganThe Complete Organ Works o...
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- César Franck’s Youthful Training at The Liege and Paris Conservatories
- Premiering Cesar Franck’s Symphony in D Minor Amid Controversy
- Composer Vincent d’Indy Laud’s His Music Composition Teacher, Cesar Franck
My father entered me in the Royal Conservatory of Liege in 1831 at only age eight, and shortly after that, my father took my violinist brother and me on a tour where I played my first concerts in 1834. A year later, my father sent me to Paris to study under Anton Reicha and Pierre Zimmerman to prepare to enter the Paris Conservatory. During that ti...
Around the time of composing my Symphony in D Minor’s premiere time, the Societe Nationale de Musique had begun accepting German music for performance, which caused an ideological split among our members. Rather than one group of people enjoying music together, French nationalist members opposed to accepting foreign music split off. Members, includ...
“Untiring assiduity in work, modesty, a fine artistic conscientiousness – these were the salient features in Fracnk’s character. But he had yet another quality – a rare one – namely, goodness: a goodness that was serene and indulgent. The word most often used by the master was the verb “to love.” “I love it,” he would say of a work, or even of a de...
Summary. Perhaps the one aspect of Franck's career which blends his gifts as both a composer and a teacher was as an organist in the loft at Sainte-Clotilde. Here was combined both his instincts and creative energies as a composer with his insights, observations, and ability to inspire as a teacher. Nowhere is his skill as an organist better ...
Finally, to his father’s disbelief, César rebelled and departed the family home in July 1846. Franck wrote relatively few works over the following quarter of a century. In 1858 he was appointed organist at the Basilica of Saint Clotilde in Paris where he composed a handful of sacred choral works and a Mass in three voices.
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César Franck: Rédemption. This recording, made in 1930 in the Salle Chopin in Paris was performed by the Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire conducted by Piero Coppola. The orchestra was founded in 1828 and reflected the playing taught at the Paris Conservatoire. Its membership was made up of professors at the ...
