Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (Composer)
Born: 9th October 1835, Paris
Died: 16th December 1921, Algiers
Nationality: French
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns 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 Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886).
Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, from 1858, La Madeleine, the official church of the French Empire. After leaving the post twenty years later, he was a successful freelance pianist and composer, in demand in Europe and the Americas.
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Saint-Saëns symphonic poems from François-Xavier Roth and Les Siècles
A selection of Saint-Saëns's luscious orchestral pieces - familiar and less-known, and including a real treasure from the very dawn of the cinematic era - get the Les Siècles treatment, leaping off the page thanks to intelligent and sensitive performances on period instruments.
Recording of the Week,
Saint-Saëns from Renaud Capuçon, Edgar Moreau and Bertrand Chamayou
The French triumvirate pays early tribute to the centenary of the composer's death with lucid, affectionate accounts of the Violin Sonata No. 1, Cello Sonata No. 1, and Piano Trio No. 2.
Popular Genres: Saint-Saëns
Orchestral
Chamber
Instrumental
Opera
Concertos
Popular Works: Saint-Saëns
- Africa - Fantasie for piano & orchestra Op. 89 (22)
- Allegro Appassionato in B minor Op. 43 (57)
- Allegro appassionato, Op. 70 (22)
- Bassoon Sonata in G major, Op. 168 (28)
- Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 33 (155)
- Cello Sonata No. 1 in C minor Op. 32 (36)
- Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op. 167 (44)
- Danse macabre, Op. 40 (244)
- Etude en forme de valse (No. 6 from Six Études, Op. 52) (29)
- Fantaisie for violin & harp, Op. 124 (31)
- Fantaisie No. 1 for organ in E flat major (31)
- Havanaise, Op. 83 (103)
- Introduction & Rondo capriccioso, Op. 28 (214)
- La Muse et le Poète, Op. 132 (23)
- Le carnaval des animaux (151)
- Le carnaval des animaux: Le Cygne (342)
- Le Rouet d'Omphale, Op. 31 (59)
- Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix (from Samson et Dalila) (88)
- Oboe Sonata in D major Op. 166 (29)
- Oratorio de Noël (Christmas Oratorio), Op. 12 (27)
- Phaéton, Op. 39 (23)
- Piano Concerto No. 1 in D major Op. 17 (20)
- Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 (96)
- Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor, Op. 44 (46)
- Piano Concerto No. 5 in F major, Op. 103 'Egyptian' (46)
- Piano Trio No. 1 in F major Op. 18 (22)
- Preludes and Fugues (3), Op. 99 (23)
- Prière for cello & piano, Op. 158 (24)
- Printemps qui commence (from Samson et Dalila) (23)
- Rapsodie d'Auvergne, Op. 73 (22)
- Romance in D flat major, Op. 37 (47)
- Romance, Op. 36 (48)
- Samson et Dalila (27)
- Samson et Dalila, Op. 47: Bacchanale (52)
- Suite algérienne, Op. 60 (33)
- Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 'Organ Symphony' (143)
- Tarantelle in A minor, Op. 6 (22)
- Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 (63)
- Violin Sonata No. 1 in D minor, Op. 75 (53)
- Wedding Cake - Valse-Caprice, Op. 76 (28)
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