D'Indy, V: César Franck (Classic Reprint) -

. .

Résumé :
Excerpt from C?sar Franck The great influences which have affected the growth of music in France since 1870 are twofold. First we have the Wagnerian movement which took a great hold upon the intellectual youth of France. It was good in so far as it awoke a more general interest in the art; but those who lived much in France at the time when the Wagnerian craze was at its most acute crisis realised, even then, that, although stimulating, it was not a fertilising influence. It is not amid the crowds of devout and Often intolerant pilgrims who journeyed to Bayreuth in the eighties, that we shall discern the personalities who were to carry on the best traditions of the art in France. Most of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.