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Title: Modern composers of Europe : being an account of the most recent musical progress in the various European nations, with some notes on their history, and critical and biographical sketches of the contemporary musical leaders in each country
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Elson, Arthur, 1873-1940
Subjects: Composers
Publisher: Boston : L.C. Page
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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which he may be justly calledthe founder. Born at Liege on December 10, 1822,he studied at the conservatory there, afterward be-coming a citizen of France and continuing hisstudies at the Paris Conservatoire. Modest andretiring by nature, le bon pere Franck, as he wascalled, divided his time between teaching, composing,and playing the organ of the Ste. Clotilde church.His simple faith and earnest work made him seemlike some of the old mediaeval artists, who de-voted their life and their music to the glory ofthe Lord. Franck is well described by the words of hispupil, Guy de Ropartz: He stands out from hiscontemporaries as one of another age; they arescoffers, he was a believer; they vaunt themselves,he worked in silence; they seek glory, he let itseek him. . . . They shrink from nothing to at-tain their object — concession, compromise, mean-ness even; he performed his mission faithfully andwithout yielding or counting the cost, leaving usthe noblest example of artistic uprightness.
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CESAR AUGUSTE FRANCK. THE ELDER FRENCHMEN I 33 After winning prizes at the Conservatoire forcounterpoint, fugue, and organ, Franck began hiscareer as piano teacher. Soon afterward he becameorgan professor at the Conservatoire, and this post,with his private teaching in composition, enabledhim to become the leader and the ideal of suchmen as DTndy, De Castillon, Duparc, Chausson,and many others. His first great work was the biblical eclogue, Ruth, which won the young composer some fameby its success. An early opera, Le Valet deFerme, failed, after which he returned to thefield of sacred and organ music. In 1870 he beganthe Beatitudes/ a grandly planned musical para-phrase of the Sermon on the Mount. The poor,the weak, and the sufferers cry out in their anguish;then the voice of Christ utters words of peace andcomfort. Satan tries to stir up hatred and rebellion,but again the sacred voice replies, and the evilspirit is silenced. This work, in eight parts, con-tains some of the noblest o

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