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Music and Letters 2003 84(2):209-240; doi:10.1093/ml/84.2.209
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D'Indy's ‘Fervaal’: Reconstructing French Identity at the ‘Fin de Siècle’

James Ross

Vincent d'Indy's Fervaal (1888–95) is both a vivid French response to Wagner and a work of profound musical and religious idealism that transcends the political and cultural nationalism with which he is most frequently identified. Its symbolism reveals highly ambiguous political content, interpreted in strikingly different ways by contemporary critics. The emphasis on d'Indy's own ‘pays’, combined with his advocacy of regional French culture and his controversial anti-Semitism, invites comparison with the author and politician Maurice Barrès. Both were founding members of the Ligue de Patrie française in 1899 and had shared aesthetic and political interests, but Barrès's doctrine of ‘la terre et les morts’ was ultimately challenged by the transcendental idealism of Fervaal.


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