Camille Saint-Saëns
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (UK: , US: , French: [ʃaʁl kamij sɛ̃ sɑ̃(s)]; 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 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. As a young man, Saint-Saëns was enthusiastic for the most modern music of the day, particularly that of Schumann, Liszt and Wagner, although his own compositions were generally within a conventional classical tradition. He was a scholar of musical history, and remained committed to the structures worked out by earlier French composers. This brought him into conflict in his later years with composers of the impressionist and expressionist schools of music; although there were neoclassical elements in his music, foreshadowing works by Stravinsky and Les Six, he was often regarded as a reactionary in the decades around the time of his death. Saint-Saëns held only one teaching post, at the École de Musique Classique et Religieuse in Paris, and remained there for less than five years. It was nevertheless important in the development of French music: his students included Gabriel Fauré, among whose own later pupils was Maurice Ravel. Both of them were strongly influenced by Saint-Saëns, whom they revered as a genius. |
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Recordings (Results 26-50 of 362 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | B-11225 | 10-in. | 11/10/1911 | Le cygne | Boris Hambourg | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | B-11570 | 10-in. | 2/6/1912 | My heart at thy sweet voice | Elsie Baker | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-11643 | 12-in. | 2/28/1912 | Samson and Delilah selection | Arthur Pryor's Band | Band | composer | |
Victor | B-11737 | 10-in. | 3/15/1912 | Gavotte in B minor | Ada Sassoli | Harp solo | arranger | |
Victor | B-11939 | 10-in. | 4/26/1912 | Gavotte in E major from 6th sonata | Vladimir de Pachmann | Piano solo | arranger | |
Victor | B-12433 | 10-in. | 9/30/1912 | Le cygne | Gutia Casini | Cello solo, with piano (take 1); with organ (take 2) | composer | |
Victor | B-12504 | 10-in. | 10/9/1912 | French horn : Romance | A. Horner | Orchestra, with instrumental solos | composer | |
Victor | B-12505 | 10-in. | 10/9/1912 | Oboe and clarinet : Hear me, Norma | Clement Barone ; Louis H. Christie ; Alfred Doucet | Orchestra, with instrumental solos | composer | |
Victor | B-12579 | 10-in. | 11/6/1912 | My heart at thy sweet voice | Michele Rinaldi ; Vessella's Italian Band | Cornet solo, with band | composer | |
Victor | B-12749 | 10-in. | 12/30/1912 | Spring flowers | Women's Chorus | Female vocal chorus, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-12797 | 12-in. | 1/16/1913 | Der frühling erwachte | Ernestine Schumann-Heink | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-12974 | 12-in. | 3/8/1913 | Le cygne (The swan) | Eugene Lutsky ; Efrem Zimbalist | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | B-13732 | 10-in. | 9/8/1913 | Le deluge prelude | Maud Powell | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | C-14315 | 12-in. | 1/13/1914 | Danse macabre | Vessella's Italian Band | Band | composer | |
Victor | B-14713 | 10-in. | 4/15/1914 | My heart at thy sweet voice | Christine Miller | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-15387 | 10-in. | 11/12/1914 | Le bonheur est chose legere | Alma Gluck | Soprano vocal solo, with violin and piano | composer | |
Victor | B-15807 | 10-in. | 3/17/1915 | Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix | Julia Culp | Contralto vocal solo, with cello obbligato and orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-15808 | 12-in. | 3/17/1915 | Printemps qui commence | Julia Culp | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-16151 | 12-in. | 6/28/1915 | Viens aider | Frances Bernard Hammond | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-16324 | 10-in. | 8/5/1915 | Reverie du soir (At Blidah) | Conway's Band | Band | composer | |
Victor | B-17185 | 10-in. | 2/17/1916 | Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix | Alma Gluck | Soprano vocal solo, with cello and and orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-17644 | 10-in. | 5/9/1916 | Le cygne | Hans Kindler | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | B-17836 | 10-in. | 6/12/1916 | My heart at thy sweet voice | McKee Trio | Instrumental trio | composer | |
Victor | C-18716 | 12-in. | 11/16/1916 | Rêverie du doir | Victor Concert Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-18717 | 12-in. | 11/16/1916 | Marche militaire française | Victor Concert Orchestra | Orchestra | composer |
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Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Saint-Saëns, Camille," accessed April 25, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102051.
Saint-Saëns, Camille. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 25, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102051.
"Saint-Saëns, Camille." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 25 April 2024.
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