SubmittedFriday, 03 May 2019
Henri Duparc, Alexis de Castillon, Vincent d’Indy
Among those who received his direct teaching[223] were Henri Duparc, Alexis de Castillon, Vincent d’Indy, Ernest Chausson, Pierre de Bréville, Augusta Holmes, Louis de Serres, Charles Bordes, Guy Ropartz, and Guillaume Lekeu. And if to these we add the pupils in the organ classes, who also came under his influence, we have, among others, Samuel Rousseau, Gabriel Pierné, Auguste Chapuis, Paul Vidal, and Georges Marty; and also the virtuosi who were for some time intimate with him, such as Armand Parent and Eugène Ysaye, to whom Franck dedicated his violin sonata. And if one thinks, too, of the artists who, though not his pupils, felt his power–artists such as Gabriel Fauré, Alexandre Guilmant, Emmanuel Chabrier, and Paul Dukas–one may see that nearly the whole musical generation of Paris of that time took its inspiration from César Franck. And it was largely with the intention of perpetuating his teaching that his pupils, Charles Bordes and Vincent d’Indy, and his friend, Alexandre Guilmant, founded in 1894, four years after his death, the Schola Cantorum, which has kept his memory alive ever since.
«Our revered father, Franck,» said Vincent d’Indy, in a speech, «is in some ways the grandfather of the Schola Cantorum; for it is his system of teaching that we apply and try to carry on here.»[224]
[Footnote 223: A complete list may be found in M. d’Indy’s book.]
[Footnote 224 2: Tribune de Saint-Gervais, November, 1900.]
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