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César Franck

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1998 - Arno Bornkamp & Ivo Janssen
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1997 - Piano Music (piano: Stephen Hough)
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1995 - Symphony in D minor / Le Chasseur maudit (Philadelphia Orche
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1994 - Symphony in D minor / Symphonic Variations (Vienna Philharmo

1994 - Franck: Symphonic Variations / D'Indy: Symphony on a French
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1994 - Franck - Prelude, Choral et Fugue / Prelude, Aria et Final /
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1992 - Franck: Symphony in D Minor / Les Eolides (New York Philharm

1990 - The Organ Works of César Franck (Jean Guillou)

1990 - Violin Sonatas

1989 - Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor / Franck: Sonata in A

1989 - Complete Works for Organ, Volume 1 (Anthony Newman)

1988 - Brahms: Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major / Franck: Violin Sona

1987 - Ravel: Piano Concertos / Fauré: Fantaisie / Franck: Symphon

1987 - L'Oeuvre d'Orgue (André Isoir, orgue Cavaillé-Coll de Luç

1987 - The Complete Organ Music

1987 - Symphony in D minor / Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orc

1980 - Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor / Franck: Symphonic Variati

1976 - Eesti orelid 2

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Liège, Belgique

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1822

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--- 1890

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César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck (10 December 1822 – 8 November 1890) was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life.
He was born at Liège, in what is now Belgium (though at the time of his birth it was part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands). He gave his first concerts there in 1834 and studied privately in Paris from 1835, where his teachers included Anton Reicha. After a brief return to Belgium, and a disastrous reception for an early oratorio Ruth, he moved to Paris, where he married and embarked on a career as teacher and organist. He gained a reputation as a formidable musical improviser, and travelled widely within France to demonstrate new instruments built by Aristide Cavaillé-Coll.
In 1858, he became organist at the Basilica of St. Clotilde, Paris, a position he retained for the rest of his life. He became professor at the Paris Conservatoire in 1872; he took French nationality, a requirement of the appointment. His pupils included Vincent d'Indy, Ernest Chausson, Louis Vierne, Charles Tournemire, Guillaume Lekeu and Henri Duparc. After acquiring the professorship, Franck wrote several pieces that have entered the standard classical repertoire, including symphonic, chamber, and keyboard works.