[44] Vincent d'Indy: César Franck, pp. 82 et seq.

[45] Romain Rolland: Musiciens d'aujourd'hui, pp. 230 et seq.

[46] Octave Séré: Musiciens français d'aujourd'hui, p. 83.

[47] Ibid., p. 83.

[48] S. I. M., April 15, 1911.

[49] Vincent d'Indy: César Franck.

[50] Autobiographical Sketch in 'The Music-Lover's Calendar,' Boston, 1905.

[51] Charles Bordes founded the Chanteurs de St. Gervaise in 1892 to perform sixteenth-century music, and more worthy later choral works. Including the study of plain-chant, better standards in modern church music, and higher requirements in organists, this association became the Schola Cantorum in 1894. As a school it was incorporated as above.

[52] The theme of the Beloved, employed in the orchestral poem Souvenirs, op. 62.

[53] From the Cévennes region.

[54] Melody employed in the service proper to the Feast of the Assumption.

[55] 'On accuse les compositeurs de debussysme, on ne leur reproche plus d'être wagnériens.'—Preface to 2nd edition, Fervaal, Étude thématique, by Pierre de Bréville and Henri Laubers Villars.

[56] Octave Séré: Musiciens français d'aujourd'hui, p. 272.

[57] Louis Gallet: Notes d'un Librettist, quoted by Octave Séré in Musiciens français d'aujourd'hui, p. 73.

[58] Ibid.

[59] Lowell Institute Lecture, Jan. 7, 1915. Reported in the 'Boston Transcript.'

[60] Magnard died in September, 1914, somewhat quixotically defending his cause against the Germans.