He wrote about the Saracen invasions of his country in his music drama Fervaal, while he reversed the usual arrangement of variations in his Istar.  
He wrote about the relationship between a girl named Vita and the title character in his opera The Stranger, while he depicted the conversion of Nic?, the Queen of Pleasure, by a man originally known as Auf?us in his The Legend of Saint Christopher.  He wrote about the Saracen invasions of his country in his music drama Fervaal, while he reversed the usual arrangement of variations in his Istar.  He used a text by Uhland for his "symphonic legend" The Enchanted Forest and wrote three symphonic overtures based on Schiller's Wallenstein, while his major symphonic works include the Sinfonia brevis and an 1886 work alternately known as the "Symphonie Cevenole."  His teaching methods, detailed in Cours de Composition, were used on such pupils as Joaquin Turina, Georges Auric, and Erik Satie. FTP, name this Belgian-French composer who was himself taught by Cesar Franck, and who is most famous for his Symphony on a French Mountain Air.
He wrote about the relationship between a girl named Vita and the title character in his opera
Vincent d'Indy