Works
It is difficult to understand Fumet's music while ignoring his mysticism, even if his music holds itself up by its forms and intrinsic qualities. The difficulty comes perhaps from its refinement, which excludes the facile effects that please audiences and the general public so easily. This extraordinarily talented musician refused to use what he considered common tricks in his compositions; this did not make his music easy for the general public to understand. On top of that, possessed by his spiritual calling which gave him, until the end of his life, centers of interest other than his musical career, he soon became completely isolated from the fierce musical profession, which requires constant social interaction.
Dynam-Victor Fumet's works contain all the ambiguities and paradoxes that characterize the isolated, independent spirits whose sincerity and contempt for fashion ensure their timeless originality. They purposely go beyond classical forms. Fumet indeed, most of the time, invents his own forms. Coming from the incomparable French school to which he owes his ease in the uses of forms and continuous modulation, he possesses a unique sense of harmony, rhythm, and strong and subtle melodies which distinguish him from the major musical trends from before and after the war.
"The purpose of art", he explained in a letter to a friend, "is to humanize universal life, that is to say to make it proportional to man's deposed royalty". He added that "art became a need of love ever since man was no longer as grand as the universe he looks at. He calls the universe to himself, and it is thus that works come into being. One therefore needs eternity to understand it, needs to feel his exile in order to give painful birth to living truth."
At the end of his life, surprised by the institutions' indifference towards his music, this spiritual and refined composer explained, not without humor, that Heaven held against him the excesses that had allowed him to create his works. ..
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