Name
D’Indy, Vincent

Variant name
Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy

Gender
Male

Birth
March 27, 1851 Paris

Death
December 2, 1931 Paris

Descriptive Note

Paul Marie Théodore Vincent d'Indy was a French composer and teacher. He was born in Paris into an aristocratic Catholic family. He started studying music and composition at an early age, and after being introduced to Berlioz's treatise on orchestration, he decided to become a composer. At the age of 19, during the Franco-Prussian War, d'Indy enlisted in the National Guard, but returned to his musical traiining in 1871 at the Conservatoire de Paris. In 1875, he joined the percussion section of the orchestra at the Châtelet Theatre.

He was a co-founder of the Schola Cantorum de Paris and also taught at the Paris Conservatoire. 

Among his best known pieces are the Symphony on a French Mountain Air for piano and orchestra (1886), and Istar (1896), a symphonic poem. D'Indy's also wrote orchestral pieces, and symphonic poems such as Jour d'été à la montagne, and Souvenirs, written on the death of his first wife. 

On the occasion of the Turin 1911 Exposition, D'Indy directed a concert in the Salone delle Feste, Pavilion of Festivals and Concerts, on October 10, 1911, with music by Rameau, Lalande, Méhul , Berlioz, Lalo, Franck, Debussy, Dukas and D'Indy himself.

Roles
Performing Artists, Conductors (Musicians)