La schola cantorum paris

Vincent d’Indy (1851-1931).

• Profession: Composer.
• Residences: Paris.
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• Born: 27-03-1851 Paris, France.
• Died: 02-12-1931 Paris, France.
• Buried: Montparnasse cemetery, Paris, France.

Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d’Indy was born in Paris into an aristocratic family of royalist and Catholic persuasion.

He had piano lessons from an early age from his paternal grandmother, who passed him on to Antoine François Marmontel and Louis Diémer. From the age of 14 he studied harmony with Albert Lavignac. At age 19, during the Franco-Prussian War, he enlisted in the National Guard, but returned to musical life as soon as the hostilities were over.

The first of his works he heard performed was a Symphonie italienne, at an orchestral rehearsal under Jules Pasdeloup; the work was admired by Georges Bizet and Jules Massenet, with whom he had already become acquainted.

On the advice of Henri Duparc, he became a devoted