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Camille Saint-Saëns' (1835-1921) long artistic career corresponds to one of the most inventive periods in the history of music instruments making: flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, horns, trumpets, and other wind instruments gradually adopted the modern form that we know today and the new families of saxophones, saxhorns or sarrussophones, born from the intuition of genius makers, enriched ...
Oct 27, 2008 · Abstract. Camille Saint–Saëns is a memorable figure not only for his successes as a composer of choral and orchestral works, and the eternally popular opera Samson et Dalila, but also because he was a keen observer of the musical culture in which he lived. A composer of vast intelligence and erudition, Saint–Saëns was at the same time one ...
For modern instruments of Saint-Sae0 ns' time, it was not the best system to use. He did recommend the system as the proper way to start, though, as it developed "firmness of the fingers and suppleness of the wrist." (18:9) 7 From Stamaty, Saint-Saens also learned the continuous legato, which according to Saint-Saens "is both false and monotonous."
- Gerald Kenneth Steele
- 1967
Saint-Saëns c. 1880 Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (UK: / ˈ s æ̃ s ɒ̃ (s)/, US: / s æ̃ ˈ s ɒ̃ (s)/, French: [ʃaʁl kamij sɛ̃sɑ̃(s)] ⓘ ; [n 1] 9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello ...
Nov 1, 2021 · Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer, and was active as a pianist, organist, and writer. A formidable figure in 19th century French music, he composed works in every genre, including operas, ballet music, sacred and secular choral works, songs and solo piano pieces, chamber music, symphonies and concertos…even a film score.
Jul 13, 2021 · A revealing look at French composer and virtuoso Camille Saint-Saëns Camille Saint-Saëns—perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music—is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his earlier importance. In a wide-ranging and trenchant ...
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Sep 25, 2018 · Saint-Saëns played an important role in French musical culture, politics, and society. In many ways, his life story is unique: as a child prodigy raised by his mother and aunt, as both cosmopolitan composer and virtuoso performing throughout Europe and as far as San Francisco and Saigon, as a teacher of religious music at the Ecole Niedermeyer ...
