biography
| name: |
Franck, César (Auguste)
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pronunciation:
[frãk, sayzah(r)]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1822–90)
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| biography:
| Composer, born in Liège, E Belgium. He studied at the Liège Conservatoire and at Paris, where he acquired French nationality, and settled as a teacher and organist, composing in his leisure hours. His reputation rests on a few masterpieces all written after the age of 50, the best known being a violin sonata, a string quartet, a symphony, and the Variations symphoniques (1885) for piano and orchestra. |
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