Biography
Vincent d’Indy was born in Paris on 27 March 1851 and died there on 2 December 1931. At the Paris Conservatoire he became a favoured pupil of César Franck, whose compositional thinking and admiration for German music left a lasting mark on him. In 1894 he co-founded the Schola Cantorum de Paris with Charles Bordes and Alexandre Guilmant, directing it from 1900 into an influential training ground for composers including Albert Roussel and Erik Satie. As a composer, d’Indy was strongly shaped by Richard Wagner, whose Bayreuth premieres he had attended in person; with the opera Fervaal (1897) he set out to create a French counterpart to Wagner's Ring. His increasingly nationalist and antisemitic convictions in later life also marked works such as De bello gallico (1916–1918).
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