César Franck, Symphonic Poem “Les Djinns” for Piano and Orchestra

César Franck, Symphonic Poem “Les Djinns” for Piano and Orchestra. Fabio Banegas, piano. Francisco Varela, conductor. Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine. Recorded in November 2021. Part of album released by Guild Music, a classical music label from the United Kingdom, for the 200th anniversary of César Franck's birth. Composed in Paris in 1884, Franck's Symphonic Poem “Les Djinns” for Piano and Orchestra was inspired by "Les Djinns", one of the most famous poems by French poet Victor Hugo (1802-1885) which was published in 1829 as part of Hugos's collection of poems entitled Les Orientales. A pivotal composer in the development of French academic music, César-Auguste Jean-Guillaume Hubert Franck was a postromantic composer, organist and pianist. He was born on December 10 1822 in Liege, Belgium. He lived most of his life in Paris becoming a naturalized French citizen in 1873. César Franck died on November 8, 1890 in Paris, his oeuvre include 91 compositions and as a teacher he influenced the subsequent generation of French composers.