Piano Recital: Ashley Wass

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Cat No: 8554484

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 636943448427

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Piano Recital

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Cesar Franck(1822-1890)Eglogue, Op.3; PremierGrand Caprice; Op.5; Les plaintes d'une poupee; Prelude, Choral etFugue; Danse lente; Prelude, Aria et FinalBelgian by birth, French by choice and of more remote possible Germanancestry, Cesar Franck was born in 1822 in the Walloon city of Li?¿ge. Hismusical gifts, obvious at an early age, were encouraged by his father who sawthe possibility of a career for his son as a virtuoso performer. Study at theConservatoire in Li?¿ge and early concert performance, with compo?¡sitions tomatch his father's ambitions, was followed by a period of respite from concertactivity in Paris, with lesson, from Antonin Reicha in the techniques ofcomposition, and rigorous piano discipline from Pierre?¡-Joseph-GuillaumeZimmerrnann. In 1837 he was ad?¡mitted to the Paris Conservatoire, where hebegan to win some distinction, continuing his piano lessons with Zimmermann andstudying the organ rather less effectively under Fran?ºois Benoist. The naturalCourse for Franck would have been to enter for the important Prix de Rome,victory in which would have brought three years study in Rome. It was, however,in 1842, when such a triumph seemed to lie before him, that his father withdrewhim from the Conservatoire, again seeking a career as a performer for his son,initially in Belgium, where it was hoped to interest influential patrons. Twoyears later the Francks were back in Paris once more.Franck's failure to impress, either as a pianist or as a composer,brought in the following years the need to earn a living as a teacher. Hismarriage in 1848 to one of his pupils, Blanche Saillot Desmousseaux, thedaughter of parents of importance in the Comedie Fran?ºaise and heirs to alongfamily theatrical tradition, brought a breach with his father. From now on hecontinued to earn a living by teaching and as an organist, at first atNotre-Dame-de-Lorette, where he had been married. In 1851 he moved toSaint-Jean-?¡Saint-Fran?ºois-au-Marais, with its fine new Cavaille-Coll organ andin 1858 he was appointed organist at Sainte-Clotilde, where Cavaille-Collinstalled a new instrument, generally regarded as the finest example of itskind. It was at Sainte-Clotilde over the following years that Franck built areputation as an organist. In 1872, after a period in which he had won theloyalty and affection of a group of pupils, led by Duparc, and during which hismusic had been performed under the auspices of the Societe Nationale deMusique, a body devoted to the promotion of Ars Gallica, he was appointed tothe position of professor of organ at the Conservatoire.From the 1870s onwards Franck devoted himself to composition, influencedin particular by hearing, in 1874, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, whichmade a profound impression on him. At the Conservatoire he aroused somejealousy in his colleagues by attracting to his classes a group of youngcomposers, known as the bande ?á Franck (among them Vincent d'Indy), towhom their teacher was known as Pater Seraphicus.It was
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