{"product_id":"vincent-dindy-and-his-world","title":"Vincent d'Indy and his World","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver 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 César 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\n\u003cbr\u003efinds that d'Indy was a tireless propagandist for a spiritual revival of French musical civilization. Yet he was fully aware of the social and intellectual problems of the secular Third Republic which militated\n\u003cbr\u003eagainst his Dante-inspired Catholic humanism, embodied in the work of the Schola Cantorum, the Paris institution founded by d'Indy to reform the practice of sacred music. Far from being a pure reactionary, his outlook was in reality remarkably progressive, manifest in his revivals of early music, notably Monteverdi's Orfeo, his encouragement of Debussy, and his willingness to engage - often pugnaciously - with the latest musical manifestations of Richard Strauss, Stravinsky,\n\u003cbr\u003eSchoenberg, and Varèse. His own compositions likewise contain passages of astonishingly bold invention and modernistic effects, all too easily overlooked.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44156990062830,"sku":"9780198162209","price":385.87,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780198162209.jpg?v=1706256303","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/vincent-dindy-and-his-world","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}