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The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886 at the peak of his artistic career. [1] It is popularly known as the Organ Symphony, since, unusually for a late-Romantic symphony, two of the four movements use the pipe organ.
What is Saint-Saëns’ “Organ” Symphony? It’s a symphony written by French composer Saint-Saëns cast in two movements. It has been a crowd favorite ever since its premiere in London’s St. James’s Hall in 1886 when Saint-Saëns himself lead the orchestra of the Royal Philharmonic Society.
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The symphony had a troubled existence in 19th century France. After the Revolution of 1789, the symphonies of ancien regime French composers were largely forgotten, and during the post-Napoleonic era, it was opera, in both its grand and comic varieties, that constituted the main musical interest of the French public. Despite the valiant efforts of ...
Saint-Saëns began his career as a child prodigy who could famously play any of Beethoven’s 32 piano sonatas from memory; his career as a composer, however, was slower to take off. By the 1880s, he had written a number of successful pieces which had a foothold in the repertoire, but his early symphonies had failed to stick, and it had been many year...
Part of what Saint-Saëns wanted to prove was that the symphony as a genre was not dead. He wanted to show that composers did not need to resort to words in order to convey meaning to listeners, that a symphony could be just as powerfully moving as a Wagnerian music drama (and much more time efficient). Like Beethoven, he hoped to walk the fine line...
Could this be a musical depiction of the apocalypse and the establishment of the kingdom of heaven on earth? Contemporary commentators such as Emil Baumann often resorted to religious language when describing this symphony, and in our own time Watson Lyle, author of Camille Saint-Saëns: His Life and Art, even went so far as to say that the appearan...
Organ Symphony, orchestral work by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, notable especially for its grand use of an organ in the final movement. The work premiered on May 19, 1886, in London, where Saint-Saëns was engaged in a concert tour, and it became one of the first widely praised symphonies by.
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As part of his pioneering series of initial inscriptions of the core French orchestral repertoire, Coppola’s Organ Symphony is a fine, largely idiomatic introduction to the work, with an overall light touch and shapely phrases. Well-paced and energetic, its strong dynamics and subtle tempo adjustments add interest to the occasionally ...
Apr 9, 2018 · Saint-Saëns described the Organ Symphony as having two parts rather than the standard four movements of a conventional symphony. A plaintive introduction leads to a spirited allegro that starts as a sonata form.
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His Symphony No. 3 is probably best understood as a ‘Symphony with added organ’, because only two of its four movements feature the instrument. it’s a magnificent work, with the composer saying he was writing to his limits: ‘I gave everything to it I was able to give.
