Société musicale indépendante
The French société musicale indépendante was founded in 1910 in particular by Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Ravel, Charles Koechlin and Florent Schmitt.
When the SMI was founded, the Société Nationale de Musique was the main Parisian company defending French musical creation. Some composers did not like the atmosphere of this society, which remained extremely faithful to César Franck. Some of Maurice Ravel's works were not well received, others by Charles Koechlin, Maurice Delage or Ralph Vaughan Williams were refused.
Maurice Ravel then left the Société Nationale and became one of the founders of the independent society, whose aim was to support contemporary musical creation, freeing it from restrictions linked to the forms, genres and styles of programmed works.The founding president of the SMI was Gabriel Fauré. Among others, the executive committee would include:
