César Franck and his chamber music

Abstract

This thesis deals one of the great figures in Romantic music in the 19th century César Franck, as a composer, organist and music teacher, too. To the significant part belongs Franck´s chamber music which I apply myself to in detail. That is particulary piano trio in F sharp minor, piano trio in B sharp minor, piano quitent in F minor, string quartet in d minor and certainly sonata for violin and piano A major. I mention also the only symphony of Franck in D minor considering numerous common features with his chamber music. We can find here also composerś youth when he was a child prodigy, his friendship with-known personalities ( as F.Liszt) and last but not least his mature period, when he composed his main work. I have to bring out that his works were some of the finest organ pieces to come from France in over a century, and laid the groundwork for the French symphonic organ style. We also get to know that as an organist he was particulary noted for his skill in improvisation, and is considered by many the greatest composer of organ music after J.S.Bachś successo