Vincent D’Indy
A student of Caesar Franck who was influenced by Richard Wagner, d’Indy co-founded the private music conservatory, Schola Cantorum de Paris and taught at the Paris Conservatory, numbering among his students Albert Roussel, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Cole Porter, and Erik Satie. In addition to his own compositions, d’Indy contributed to the revival of the Baroque music of Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi by publishing editions of their works. In 1885, d’Indy became joint secretary of the Société Nationale de Musique, founded to promote French music.
French composer Amédée-Ernest Chausson (1855-1899) was a talented student of Massenet whose style was also influenced by Franck and Wagner, but whose life was cut short by a fatal bicycle accident at the early age of 44. A secretary of the Société Nationale de Musique from 1886 until his death, Chausson counted among his circle Franck, Henri Duparc, Claude Debussy, Isaac Albéniz, Gabriel Faure, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, and d’Indy who posthumously completed Chausson’s String Quartet in C minor, Op. 35. Chausson’s popular Trois Lieder was based on a poem by French writer and critic Camille Mauclair (1872-1945). Mauclair dedicated his novel Le soleil des morts to Chausson and, following Chausson’s death, wrote an article for La Vogue entitled, “Souvenirs sur Ernest Chausson.”
Although primarily known as a painter, lithographer and caricaturist, Bourgeois-Borgex published a biography of d’Indy in 1913.
With the original envelope addressed to Bourgeois-Borgex at his Maida Vale, London address.
