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It was founded by Romain Bussine and Camille Saint-Saëns, who shared the presidency, and early members included César Franck, Ernest Guiraud, Jules Massenet, Jules Garcin, Gabriel Fauré, Alexis de Castillon, Henri Duparc, Théodore Dubois, and Paul Taffanel.
It was conceived in reaction to the tendency in French music to favor vocal and operatic music over orchestral music, and to further the cause of French music in contrast to the Germanic tradition.
" They were determined to unite in their efforts to spread the gospel of French music and to make known the works of living French composers.
According to their statutes.
their intention was to act ' in brotherly unity, with an absolute forgetfulness of self '".
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