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Vincent d'Indy
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| French composer who became a pupil and leading disciple of César Franck at the Paris Conservatoire and who founded the Schola Cantorum in Paris with Charles Bordes and Guilmant. d’Indy was an important figure in the musical life of Paris in his lifetime and a distinguished music teacher. He wrote the "Cours de Compositon", a treatise on teaching methods. 
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d'Indy wrote music in all the principal genres. He composed two symphonies and a number of tone poems for orchestra. His "Symphonie sur un chant montagnard français" (Symphony on a French Mountain Song) for piano and orchestra, based on a French folk-song and completed in 1886, is very patriotic.
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