[219] It is known that M. Colonne has now a helper in M. Gabriel Pierné, who will succeed him when he retires.
[220] My statements may be verified by the account published in the Revue Éolienne of January, 1902, by M. Léon Bourgeois, secretary of the Committee of the Association des Concerts-Lamoureux.
[221] It published, in eleven volumes, the ancient works that it performed. Before this experiment there had been the Concerts historiques de Fétis, preceded by lectures, which were inaugurated in 1832, and failed; and these were followed by Amédée Méréaux's Concerts historiques in 1842-1844.
[222] The following information was given by M. Vincent d'Indy at a lecture held on 20 February, 1903, at the École des Hautes Études sociales—a lecture which later became a chapter in M. d'Indy's book, César Franck (1906).
[223] A complete list may be found in M. d'Indy's book.
[224]Tribune de Saint-Gervais, November, 1900.
[225] See the Essay on Vincent d'Indy.
[226] Revue d'histoire et de critique musicale, August-September, 1901.
[227] "The Schola Cantorum aims at creating a modern music truly worthy of the Church" (First number of the Tribune de Saint-Gervais, the monthly bulletin of the Schola Cantorum, January, 1895).
[228] The Schola had in mind here the vigorous work of the French Benedictines, which had been done in silence for the past fifty years; it was thinking, too, of the restoration of the Gregorian chant during 1850 and 1860 by Dom Guéranger, the first abbot of Solesmes, a work continued by Dom Jausions and Dom Pothier, the abbot of Saint-Wandrille, who published in 1883 the Mélodies Grégoriennes, the Liber Gradualis, and the Liber Antiphonarius. This work was finally brought to a happy conclusion by Dom Schmitt, and Dom Mocqucreau, the prior of Solesmes, who in 1889 began his monumental work, the Paléo-graphie Musicals, of which nine volumes had appeared in 1906. This great Benedictine school is an honour to France by the scientific work it has lately done in music. The school is at present exiled from France.