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Franck Panis Angelicus for String QuartetFranck's Panis Angelicus is one of the most immediately recognisable sacred melodies in the repertoi…
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Franck
César Franck (1822–1890) was a Belgian-born composer and organist who spent his career in Paris, serving at the Basilica of Sainte-Clotilde from 1858 and teaching a generation of French composers that included Chausson, d'Indy, and Duparc, who called him Pater Seraphicus. His greatest works came late: the Symphony in D minor and the Violin Sonata in A major were both written in his sixties. The Sonata was a wedding gift for Eugène Ysaÿe; its premiere at a Brussels museum was played partly in darkness, the players refusing to stop as the hall closed around them and the light failed. He died in 1890 after being struck by a tram in Paris.