Franek's only symphony was a late composition, first performed in Paris in February 1889, a year before his death. It splendidly reveals the great Belgian composer's musical individuality, and echoes powerfully the glories of the lateFrench Romantic style.
Today, a century after its first presentation, the Symphony in D Minor is one of the most performed and recorded symphonic works in the repertoire. This authorita-tive Dover edition makes it available in full score in a sturdy, yet inexpensive format designed to bring you a lifetime of pleasurable study. Although he was deeply influenced by Bach's contrapuntal technique and by Wagner's chromatic harmonies, Franek achieved a highly distinctive musicalidentity in his work. Itis pupil Dukas commented: "Franek's language is strictlyindividual, of an accent and quality hitherto unused, and recognizable among allother idioms."
He was influential not only as a composer but as an organ virtuoso and a teacher,numbering among his students and followers d'Indy, Chausson and a host of otherimportant modern French composers, llis greatest works, among them the Symphony in D Minor, combine depth and monumentality with a sweeping, almost
mystical lyricism--qualities that underlay his importance as a leading figure of
19th-century French musical life. |
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