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Cesar Franck
An influential musician in French musical life at the end of the 19th century,
César Franck inspired numerous vocations and played a major role in the revival
of both chamber and organ music. Born in Liège, then part of the Kingdom of the
Netherlands, on December 10, 1822, César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck
came from a modest family, his father a bank clerk. Like his younger brother
Joseph on the violin, he proved to be a child prodigy during his studies at the
Royal Conservatory of Liège, where he won a first prize in singing, followed by
a first prize in piano at the ag...
