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	César Franck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890) was a composer and organist.
		Franck was a fine pianist, and made concert tours in his early years, but made his living at the organ, becoming organist of Sainte-Clotilde in 1858, where he remained until his death.
		Franck died in 1890 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
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	César Franck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (December 10, 1822 – November 8, 1890) was a composer and organist.
		Franck's fame rests largely on a small number of compositions written in his later years, particularly his symphony (1886-88), the Symphonic Variations for piano and orchestra (1885), the Prelude, Choral and Fugue for piano solo (1884) and a sonata for violin and piano (1886).
		Franck's organ works have been recorded, in whole or in part, by many famous organists, including Jean Langlais, Marie-Claire Alain, Jeanne Demessieux, and Catherine Crozier.
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	CESAR FRANCK - LoveToKnow Article on CESAR FRANCK
		Franck was appointed professor of the organ at the Paris conservatoire, in succession to Benoist, his old master, in 1872, and the following year he was naturalized a Frenchman.
		Franck also composed two four-act operas, Hulda and Ghiselle, both of which were produced at Monte Carlo after his death, which took place in Paris on the 8th of November 1890.
		A statue was erected to the memory of Csar Franck in Paris on the 22nd of October 1904, the occasion producing a panegyric from Alfred Bruneau, in which he speaks of the composers works as cathedrals in sound.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FRANCK_CESAR.htm (575 words)

	Cesar Franck 1822-1890
		The dark, glowing, mystical symphony of Cesar Franck is constantly suggestive of the organ on which he was wont to improvise in the loft of Ste.
		Franck was a Belgian, a poor music-teacher in Paris, one of the meek whose praises are sung in the "Beatitudes" which he set to music.
		It is the composer's signature, "Cesar Franck," and the capstone of the movement.
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	Franck
		Franck, unable to handle all the performances and his father’s bullying, eventually had a small nervous breakdown and the year 1848 thus marks the culmination of Franck’s intentions of leaving his father.
		As a member of the Société Nationale, Franck tried to attend as many meetings as possible (which were not that many since he had to adhere to a rigorous teaching schedule) in order to study with care and with indulgence the scores submitted to the Société.
		Undeniably the sensuous coloring of the Wagnerian school is lacking, though Franck devoted himself almost passionately at one time to the study of Wagner’s scores; yet, as in the case of Brahms, Franck’s scoring, peculiarly his own, is fitting to the quality of his inspiration....
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	Decca Music Group - Composers
		César Franck and his younger brother Joseph, who also became a musician, were brought up by a father whose ambition was to breed two virtuosos at public expense through the educational system.
		Franck's time with Reicha was short, but what he learned from the older man about counterpoint and fugal technique became his mainstay for the rest of his life.
		Franck occupied a key position in the development of French music and musical life in the last three decades of the 19th century.
	www.deccaclassics.com /music/composers/franck.html (631 words)

	Composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born at Liège in 1822, César Franck was originally intended by his father for a career as a virtuoso pianist.
		Franck's best known orchestral works are the Symphonic Variations for solo piano and orchestra and the Symphony in D minor, completed in 1888 and first performed at a Conservatoire concert the following year.
		Franck wrote one Violin Sonata, which, like his symphony, is united by a cyclic use of thematic material that connects the movements.
	www.naxos.com /composer/btm.asp?fullname=Franck,+Cesar (495 words)

	MSN Encarta - Cesar Franck
		Franck's work is characterized by the use of classical forms, including the symphony and sonata, which he imbued with a romantic spirit.
		Although Franck's work was neglected during his lifetime, his compositions are now part of the standard repertoire of instrumentalists and orchestras.
		Among Franck's other compositions are the oratorio Les béatitudes (1869-79); orchestral works, including three symphonic poems; Variations symphoniques for piano and orchestra (1885); the Sonata for Piano and Violin (1886); and organ works, including Six pièces pour grand orgue (1860-62) and Trois chorals (1890).
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	DoveSong.com -- The Celestial Music of César Franck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Franck was considered to be a minor composer by music critics in the 20th Century, a century that idolized negative and shallow music.
		Cesar Franck was born at Liege, Belgium, in 1822 and was the son of a banker.
		Franck was a master of organ composition, and it is in the field of organ that he is perhaps the best known.
	www.dovesong.com /positive_music/archives/romantic/Franck.asp (1252 words)

	National Review: Hail, Cesar - composer Cesar Franck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Franck was Belgium's greatest composer: born at Liege, with a sense of appropriate career timing that he never displayed again, on the very day Beethoven finished his Missa Solemnis (December 10, 1822).
		Franck's slightly earlier and equally delightful Symphonic Variations were ludicrously under-rehearsed: in concert they came to a shuddering halt well before their intended ending.
		The artistic character traits of Franck that were once ritually scolded for their "mannerism" and sentimentality" ("organ-stop orchestration" used to be a particularly beloved and meaningless anti-Franck mantra of textbook writers) increasingly emerge as valid and highly original reworkings of Romanticism's basic structures.
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	Organ Composers: CÈsar Franck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1837 Franck entered the Paris Conservatory studying piano with Zimmerman and organ with Benoist.
		Franck received the "grand prix d'honneur" in his college days by transposing a fugue a third lower on sight.
		Franck was hit by a horse-omnibus in 1890, from which he never fully recovered.
	www.byu.edu /music/areas/keyboard/Organ/composers/franck.html (256 words)

	Cesar Franck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cesar Franck is considered to be a composer from Belgium, although his cultural origins are often argued about due to the fact that Liege, his birthplace, was officially a part of the French Walloon District before 1830, when it then became Belgium.
		His father was not by any means a wealthy man, and saw the opportunity at once to use little Cesar as a child prodigy which was often the case with young geniuses.
		The next area of Franck’s life as a true composer had to have started in 1858, when he became the organist at the Basilica of Ste.
	www.ptloma.edu /music/MUH/composers/franck/Franck.htm (344 words)

	Cesar Franck Biography / Biography of Cesar Franck Main Biography
		The music of the French composer César Franck (1822-1890) is characterized by chromatic harmonies and skillful use of counterpoint.
		Franck attended the Paris Conservatory (1837-1842), where he won prizes for piano, counterpoint, fugue, and organ.
		Franck died in Paris on Nov. 8, 1890.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-cesar-franck/index.html (439 words)

	The Symphony - Cesar Franck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Wagnerian chromaticism of Franck's harmonies, along with his extensive use of cyclical form (in which a single theme recurs in each section of a work, often modified or transformed), confused audiences of his day, but his music is now recognized for its harmonic richness and structural innovation.
		The D minor Symphony is generally regarded as the French answer to the monumental symphonies of Bruckner.
		Structure: Franck's most important contribution to symphonic style was his use of cyclical form.
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	CD Spotlight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Franck family craft had been the production of stained glass, a fact to symbolise much of the composer's output, if hardly these three works.
		The stranger among them is the Op 11 piano concerto, written at the very beginning of Franck's teenage years, when his father was determined he should be a prodigy both at the keyboard and at composition.
		It begins with typical examples of the brief gnomic phrases that were to become a hallmark of Franck's style.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2002/09/franck1.htm (243 words)

	Notes on Symphony in D minor (Cesar Franck) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Whatever qualms Franck may have felt would surely have been confirmed by the reception accorded his Symphony in D minor after its 1889 premiere at the Paris Conservatory.
		The English horn, which had struck Franck's contemporaries as an unwarranted novelty, in fact adds a distinctive color, particularly when it announces the gracefully melancholy theme of the second movement.
		And it may even be said that Franck's decision to omit anything like a middle-movement scherzo enhances the verve and dash of the finale, providing the room to accommodate its sweeping gestures, galloping pace and continual, ever-intensifying crescendo.
	www.loudounsymphony.org /notes/franck-symphony (410 words)

	César Franck: Pièce Héroïque
		César Franck, organist at the Basilica of Sainte Clotilde in Paris, wrote and performed his set of "Trois Pièces" in 1878 for the inauguration of the new Cavaillé-Coll organ at the Trocadéro Palace (seen in the background of this page).
		The "Pièce Héroïque" has two themes: the first, proud and martial, is heard in the tenor range over batteries of chords, leading to a rhythmic fanfare "à la Française"; the second theme is a chorale, incorporated into the symphonic structure for the first time in Franck's organ works.
		This contrasting and serenely lyrical melody is first presented by the Trumpet stop in dialogue with the Flute.
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	César Franck 1822 - 1890 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lo stesso Franck ne fu esponente, inserendosi tra i fondatori della "Société Nationale" a fianco di Saint-Saens.
		Ma soltanto in vecchiaia Franck ottenne un riconoscimento personale.
		Da notare che Franck si dedicò a questo fondamentale lavoro in età alquanto tarda, ben oltre i 70 anni.
	www.karadar.com /Dizionario/franck.html (1110 words)

	César Franck - Biographie
		La carrière de Franck, comme virtuose, est en déclin et la pauvre réaction à la première représentation de son oratorio Ruth (4 janvier 1846) contribuent à la détérioration de ses relations avec son père déçu.
		Franck passe la majorité de son temps à la maison de sa fiancée, Félicité Saillot Desmousseaux, une artiste dramatique qu'il épouse, le 22 février 1848 et ce, malgré que son père soit farouchement opposé à cette relation mais qui accepte, à contrecoeur, d'assister au mariage.
		Durant ce temps, Franck compose un poème symphonique "Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne" et travaille sur un opéra qui demeurera inachevé "Le valet de la ferme".
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	César Franck biography - 8notes.com
		Cesar Auguste Franck: Piano Quintet Composed by Cesar Auguste Franck (1822-1890).
		Cesar Auguste Franck: Prelude, Chorale And Fugue Composed by Cesar Auguste Franck (1822-1890), edited by Emil Von Sauer.
		Franck Symphony In D Minor M Edited by Marty Winkler.
	www.8notes.com /biographies/franck.asp (449 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Cesar Franck
		Franck, César Auguste (1822-90), Belgian-born French composer and organist, whose work during the late 19th century significantly influenced the...
		He succeeded César Franck as organist to the church of Sainte Clothilde...
		Franck, James (1882-1964), German American physicist, chemist, and Nobel laureate, born in Hamburg, and educated at the universities of Heidelberg...
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	Cesar Franck - Biography and Works by Classical Favorites
		Though one of the most remarkable of modern composers, César Franck laboured for many years in comparative obscurity.
		For many years Franck led a retired life, devoting himself to teaching and to his duties as organist, first at Saint Jean-Saint-Francois, then at Ste Clotilde, where he acquired a great reputation as an improviser.
		He never sought to gain the sufrages of the public by unworthy concessions, but kept straight on his path, ever mindful of an ideal to be reached and never swerving therefrom.
	www.classicalfavorites.com /composers/Cesar_Franck (570 words)

	Franck, Cesar -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Belgian-born French composer and organist César Franck was one of the major musical figures in France in the second half of the 19th century.
		César Auguste Jean Guillaume Hubert Franck was born on Dec. 10, 1822, in Liège, Belgium, of a Walloon…
		His own music, harmonically beholden primarily to César Franck and occasionally to Richard Wagner, is particularly French in its clarity, balance, and formal poise.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9274412 (680 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Cesar Franck (1822-1890)
		Though one of the most remarkable of modern composers,; Cesar Franck laboured for many years in comparative obscurity.
		Cesar Franck's influence on younger French composers has been very great.
		A statue was erected to the memory of Cesar Franck in Paris on the 22nd of October 1904, the occasion producing a panegyric from Alfred Bruneau, in which he speaks of the composer's works as cathedrals in sound.
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	FRANCK, CESAR (1822-1890) - Online Information article about FRANCK, CESAR (1822-1890)
		FRANCK, CESAR (1822-1890) - Online Information article about FRANCK, CESAR (1822-1890)
		mark, and Franck became the central figure of an enthusiastic circle of pupils and adherents whose devotion atoned for the comparative indifference of the masses.
		series of works of varied kinds, and the name of Franck began gradually to emerge from its obscurity.
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	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of César Franck
		In his early works Franck was influenced by the opéra-comique composers such as Grétry.
		His middle years were dominated by works of religious character, his oratorio Les Béatitudes occupying him for 10 years.
		Franck's harmonic idiom, no doubt influenced by Wagner and by the org.-loft, has a pungent individuality which exerted a powerful sway not only over his pupils but over a much later generation, e.g.
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