D'INDY, PAUL-MARIE-THÉODORE-VINCENT. - Musician, b. in Paris on 27 March 1851, d. there on 2 Dec. 1931. A pupil of César Franck, he was later, with him, Saint-Saens, Fauré, Duparc, and Chausson, a founder of the National Society of Music (1871); later of the Schola cantorum together with Bordes and Guilmant (1897), and finally director of both.
He is one of the best modern French symphonists. Among his compositions are: Cantate Domino (3 voices and organ, Paris 1885), Ste-Marie Madeleine (there 1885), Deus Israel (there 1898), and several compositions for organ such as: Prélude et petit canon (there 1893), Vêpres du com-
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