Latest Release
- 8 DEC 2022
- 40 Songs
- Images For Brass · 2001
- César Franck: Die sieben letzten Worte Christi am Kreuz (The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross) · 2015
- Dieu est simple · 2022
- Dieu est simple · 2022
- God Pray Love · 2022
- God Pray Love · 2022
- God Pray Love · 2022
- Noël à l'opéra · 2022
- Dieu est simple · 2022
- Dieu est simple · 2022
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- The staunch Romantic melded German chromaticism and French austerity.
About César Franck
César Franck’s rich harmonic language and genius for tonal fluidity brought a distinctive style to late-19th century French music. Born in Liège in 1822, Franck injected an element of German purposefulness into a French musical landscape entranced by the allure of comic opera and salon bonbons. It’s no small irony, however, that his mature masterpieces post-date France’s defeat in the Franco-Prussian War when the newly-formed Société nationale de musique was rallying its musical troops under the banner Ars Gallica (French Art). In works such as the Symphony In D Minor (1888), the Piano Quintet (1880) and the Violin Sonata (1886), a wedding present for the Belgian violinist Ysaÿe, he reinvigorated the French symphonic and chamber music traditions with the rigour of his beloved cyclic form, a technique binding movements together with shared material. Just before his death in 1890, Franck completed the Trois Chorals, a high point in 19th-century organ literature.
- HOMETOWN
- Liège, Belgium
- BORN
- 10. Dezember 1822
- GENRE
- Classical