I've always liked the music of Vincent d'Indy.
A piece by D'Indy that I really like is his Dyptique Méditerranéen.
Many thanks to and three cheers for Member Derks!
By the way, some one above mentioned D'Indy's friend Dukas in passing, but they did not mention
his Piano Sonata, which came a few years before D'Indy's (1900 as against 1907), but is by no means its inferior; both works are first-rate.
Dukas wrote an opera in 1908 called "
The New World," you know - but destroyed it in 1910. It is very clear why!
We would wish too that aspiring composers of to-day would settle down and consult Dukas's 1903 essay on "
The New Lyricism." Schönberg certainly did.
A final complaint about D'Indy's treatment at the hands of the English: the
New Grove advises us "D'Indy - see Indy", whereas the
Oxford Dictionary of Music has "Indy - see D'Indy." While these topsy-turvy so-called authorities flounder thus in the face of elementary lexicographical practice there is little to be said for music scholarship in England.
