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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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he hasbeen an untiring champion of new and little-knownworks, some by ancient writers, but the larger partbelonging to the most modern French repertoire.In Barcelona he has given two sets of five concertsillustrating the development of the symphony. His first important work to reach the public wasthe Piccolomini overture, which forms a partof his orchestral trilogy based on Schillers Wallenstein. At a later period he wrote LaChevauchee du Cid, for baritone, chorus, and or-chestra. In 1884 came the Chant de la Cloche,a dramatic legend consisting of a prologue andseven parts, for soloists, chorus, and orchestra.This composition, for which he wrote the poem aswell as the music, took first prize in a competitionarranged by the city authorities of Paris, andbrought the composer a reward in both money andglory. The overture to Antony and Cleopatra is anearly work, as is also the symphony, in three move-ments, entitled Jean Hunyadi. In 1878 camethe first of the symphonic poems, La Foret En-
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VINCENT DINDY. THE FRENCHMEN OF TO-DAY 139 chantee, after the ballad of Uhland, entitled Harald. It is an orchestral picture of Harald,the hero of old, who rides through the magic woodwith his knights. The rustling murmurs of theforest mask the troop of elves, who charm away hiswarriors, but he moves bravely onward, until hefinds a pure spring and drinks from it. Its en-chanted waters throw him into a deep slumber,where he remains during the centuries, surroundedby the dancing elves. Saugefleurie is an orchestral legend based ona story of De Bonnieres. DTndys latest symphonicpoem is Istar, based on parts of the old Assyrianepic, Idzubar. Istars husband, governor ofErech, is dead, and the city a prey to the invadingElamites. Idzubar, the hero, delivers it, but re-fuses Istars hand, whereupon she tries to call downvengeance upon him. He is smitten with disease,and healed only by celestial aid. In DTndys ver-sion, however, Istar seeks her lover in the dreadabode of death, the pays immuab

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