César Franck
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 César Franck, photographed by Pierre Petit |
The first was an almost complete disruption of relations with his parents. The proximate cause was his friendship and later love for one of his private piano pupils, Eugénie-Félicité-Caroline Saillot (1824–1918), whose parents were members of the Comédie-Française company under the stage name of Desmousseaux. He had known her from his years at the Conservatoire, and for young Franck Félicité Desmousseaux's family home had become something of a refuge from his overbearing father. When in 1846 Nicolas-Joseph found a composition dedicated to "Mlle. F. Desmousseaux, in pleasant memories" among César-Auguste's papers, he tore it up in the latter's presence. César-Auguste went directly to the Desmousseauxs', wrote out the piece from memory, and presented it to Félicité with the dedicatory line. Relations with his father worsened, his father forbidding any thought of betrothal and marriage (which French law permitted a father to do for a son under age 25), accusing him of distressing his mother (whose role is unclear: she was either mildly supportive of her son or stayed completely out of the conflict) and shouting at him about a then notorious husband-wife poisoning case as the most likely outcome of any match by his son. On a Sunday in July, César-Auguste walked out of his parents' house for the last time with nothing but what he could carry, and moved to the Desmousseauxs', where he was welcomed. From that time on, young Franck termed himself and signed his papers and works as César Franck or plain C. Franck. "It was his intention to make a clean break with his father and to let it be known he had done so . . . . He was determined to become a new person, as different as possible from the other."
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| International César Franck Society International César Franck Society www.cesar-franck.org - Web |
| Biography Biography www.deccaclassics.com/music/composers/franck.html - Web |
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| L'Organiste played on virtual harmoniums L'Organiste played on virtual harmoniums www.virtuallybaroque.com/inco076.htm - Web |
| More works by César Franck performed on virtual in... More works by César Franck performed on virtual instruments www.virtuallybaroque.com/list2f.htm - Web |
| César Franck César Franck www.naxos.com/composerinfo/Cesar_Franck/27179.htm - Web |
| Official MySpace Page Official MySpace Page www.myspace.com/cesarfranckcomposer - Web |
| "Panis Angelicus" sung by Chloë Agnew "Panis Angelicus" sung by Chloë Agnew www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzTjY79nGRE - Web |
| "Panis Angelicus" sung by Saint Philips Boys Choir... "Panis Angelicus" sung by Saint Philips Boys Choir (soloists Jaymi Bandtock & Sam Harper) www.youtube.com/watch?v=esrinHesolk - Web |
