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<BR><B>Frank Martin </B><BR>
Introduction
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This site gives you information about the Swiss composer, Frank Martin (1890-1974).
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The site, intended primarily for musicians, musicologists and concert organizers, contains a
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lists of works</A>
selected by genre (specifying instrumentation, duration, year of composition and the publisher of each work.).
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Music lovers will be interested by the information about the
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(including
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CDs and books</A>
which can be made available to those interested),
the information about the
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in Naarden (The Netherlands)
and the large
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collection of photographs</A>
(classified according to different topics).
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Also there is the possibility of communicating with the composer's widow, Maria Martin, by mail or E-mail (see
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The site was set up by Maria Martin, Frank le Coultre (the composer's
grandson) and Ferry Jongbloed (responsible for the "Frank Martin House"),
under the auspices of the "Societé Frank Martin".
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To introduce the composer to you here are some quotations regarding him,
<BR>as expressed by some important musicians.
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«
When I play the "Polyptyque" by Frank Martin I feel the same responsibility, the same exultation as when I play Bach's Chaconne.
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<B>Yehudi Menuhin</B>
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His work stands like a rock and upholds credence in the future of music.
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<B>Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau</B>
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Many great works of this century are admired; few have the privilege of being loved.
Frank Martin created works which are both admired and loved.
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<B>Paul Badura-Skoda</B>
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Frank Martin has always belonged to the elite of the musical world due solely to his creative genius, nurtured by the silent meditation in his work and by the fervour of his faith.
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<B>Pierre Fournier</B>
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