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Encyclopedia Britannica



FRANCK, CESAR (1822-1890)

This article appears in Volume V11, Page 4 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FRA-GAE
FRANCK, CESAR (1822-1890) , French musical composer, a Belgian by
birth
 , who came of German stock, was born at Liege on the loth of December 1822. Though one of the most remarkable of modern composers, Cesar
Franck
  laboured for many years in comparative obscurity. After some preliminary studies at Liege he came to Paris in 1837 and entered the conservatoire. He at once obtained the first prize for piano, trans-posing a fugue at sight to the astonishment of the professors, for he was only fifteen. He won the prize for the organ in 1841, after which he settled down in the French
capital
  as teacher of the piano. His earliest compositions date from this period, and include four trios for piano and strings, besides several piano pieces. Ruth, a biblical cantata was produced with success at the Conservatoire in 1846. An opera entitled Le Valet de ferme was written about this time, but has never been performed. For many years
Franck
  led a retired life, devoting himself to teaching and to his duties as organist, first at Saint-
Jean
 -Saint-Francois, then at Ste Clotilde, where he acquired a
great
  reputation as an improviser. He also wrote a
mass
 , heard in 1861, and a quantity of motets, organ pieces and other works of a religious character.
Franck was appointed professor of the organ at the Paris conservatoire, in succession to Benoist, his old master, in 1872, and the following year he was naturalized a Frenchman. Until then he was esteemed as a clever and conscientious musician,
but he was now about to prove his title to something more. A revival of his early oratorio, Ruth, had brought his name again before the public, and this was followed by the production of Redemption, a
work
  for solo, chorus and orchestra, given . under the direction of M. Colonne on the loth of April 1873. The unconventionality of the music rather disconcerted the general public, but the
work
  nevertheless made its mark, and Franck became the central figure of an enthusiastic circle of pupils and adherents whose devotion atoned for the comparative indifference of the masses. His creative power now manifested itself in a
series
  of works of varied kinds, and the name of Franck began gradually to emerge from its obscurity. The following is an enumeration of his subsequent compositions: Rebecca (1881), a biblical idyll for solo, chorus and orchestra; Les Beatitudes, an oratorio composed between 187o and 1880, perhaps his greatest work; the symphonic poems, Les Eolides (1876), Le Chasseur maudit (1883), Les Djinns (1884), for piano and orchestra; Psyche (1888), for orchestra and chorus; symphonic variations for piano and orchestra (1885); symphony in D (1889); quintet for piano and strings (1880); sonata for piano and
violin
  (1886);
string
  quartet (1889); prelude, choral and fugue for piano (1884); prelude, aria and finale for piano (1889) ; various songs, notably " La Procession " and " Les Cloches du Soir." Franck also composed two four-act operas, Hulda and Ghiselle, both of which were produced at Monte Carlo after his death, which took place in Paris on the 8th of November 1890. The second of these was left by the master in an unfinished state, and the instrumentation was completed by several of his pupils.
Cesar Franck's influence on younger French composers has been very
great
 . Yet his music is German in character rather than French. A more sincere, modest, self-respecting composer probably never existed. In the centre of the brilliant French
capital
  he was able to lead a laborious existence consecrated to his threefold career of organist, teacher and composer. He never sought to gain the suffrages of the public by unworthy concessions, but kept straight on his path, ever mindful of an ideal to be reached and never swerving therefrom. A statue was erected to the memory of Cesar Franck in Paris on the 22nd of October 1904, the occasion producing a panegyric from Alfred Bruneau, in which he speaks of the composer's works as " cathedrals in sound."


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