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works, beside the above, are the symphonic trilogy _Wallenstein_, the symphonic works entitled _Saugefleurie_, _La Foret enchantee_, _Istar_, _Symphonie sur un air montagnard francais_; overture to _Anthony and Cleopatra_; _Ste Marie Magdeleine_, a cantata; _Attendez-moi sous l'orme_, a one-act opera; _Fervaal_, a musical drama in three acts. Vincent d'Indy is perhaps the most prominent among the disciples of Cesar Franck. Imbued with very high aims, he was always guided by a lofty ideal, and few musicians have attained so complete a mastery over the art of instrumentation. His music, however, lacks simplicity, and can never become popular in the widest sense. His opera _Fervaal_, which is styled "action musicale", is constructed upon the system of _Leit-motifs_. Its legendary subject recalls both _Parsifal_ and _Tristan_, and the music is also suggestive of Wagnerian influence. D'Indy can scarcely be considered so typical a representative of modern French music as his juniors Alfred Bruneau, the composer of _Le Reve_, _L'Attaque du moulin_, _Messidor_, or Gustave Charpentier, the author of _Louise_, who chose subjects of modern life for their operatic works. DINEIR, a small town in Asia Minor, built amidst the ruins of Celaenae-Apamea, near the sources of the Maeander (Menderes). It is the terminus of the Smyrna-Aidin-Dineir railway. Pop. 1400. (See APAMEA.) DINGELSTEDT, FRANZ VON (1814-1881), German poet and dramatist, was born at Halsdorf, in Hesse Cassel, on the 30th of June 1814. Having studied at the university of Marburg, he became in 1836 a master at the Lyceum in Cassel, from which he was transferred to Fulda in 1838. In 1839 he produced a novel, _Unter der Erde_, which obtained considerable success, and in 1841 published the book by which he is best remembered, the _Lieder eines kosmopolitischen Nachtwachters_. These poems, animated as they are by a spirit of bitter opposition to everything that savours of despotism, were an effective contribution to the political poetry of the day. The popularity of this book determined Dingelstedt to take up a literary career, and in 1841 he obtained an appointment on the staff of the _Augsburger allgemeine Zeitung_. In 1843, however, the satirist of German princes accepted, to the general surprise, the appointment of private librarian to the king of Wurttemberg, and in the same year he married the celebrated Bohemian opera singer, Jenny Lutzer. In 1845 he pub
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