Written in 1894, when French music had just recovered its confidence: César Franck and the circle around him, Saint-Saëns, Lalo, Delibes, Massenet, Chabrier, Fauré and d’Indy — each with a biographical sketch and a critical account of the works, by a critic who knew several of them.
The French musical revival, described as it was happening. Download the free EPUB.