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 101-125 of 362 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | BVE-35400 | 10-in. | 4/12/1926 | Le rossignol et la rose | Luella Melius | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-35463 | 12-in. | 5/18/1926 | Amour, viens aider ma faiblesse | Anne E. Stanier | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BVE-46187 | 10-in. | 9/27/1928 | Looms of fate | Victor Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-48904 | 12-in. | 1/15/1929 | Le rouet d'Omphale | Willem Mengelberg ; New York Philharmonic | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-48905 | 12-in. | 1/15/1929 | Le rouet d'Omphale | Willem Mengelberg ; New York Philharmonic | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-48960 | 12-in. | 4/6/1929 | Le déluge : Prelude | Alexander Russell | Organ solo | composer | |
Victor | CVE-49714 | 12-in. | 2/7/1929 | Arrêtez, Ô mes frères | Giovanni Martinelli | Tenor vocal solo, with mixed vocal chorus and orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-49715 | 12-in. | 2/7/1929 | L'as-tu donc oublié? | Giovanni Martinelli | Tenor vocal solo, with mixed vocal chorus and orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BVE-49716 | 10-in. | 2/7/1929 | L'aube qui blanchit | Metropolitan Opera Chorus ; Giulio Setti | Mixed vocal chorus, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-51881 | 12-in. | 9/26/1929 | Carnival of the animals | Olga Barabini ; Mary Binney Montgomery ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra, with piano soloists | composer | |
Victor | CVE-51882 | 12-in. | 9/26/1929 | Carnival of the animals | Olga Barabini ; Mary Binney Montgomery ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra, with piano soloists | composer | |
Victor | CVE-51883 | 12-in. | 9/26/1929 | Carnival of the animals | Olga Barabini ; Mary Binney Montgomery ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra, with piano soloists | composer | |
Victor | CVE-51884 | 12-in. | 9/26/1929 | Carnival of the animals | Olga Barabini ; Mary Binney Montgomery ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra, with piano soloists | composer | |
Victor | CVE-51885 | 12-in. | 9/27/1929 | Carnival of the animals | Olga Barabini ; Mary Binney Montgomery ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra, with piano soloists | composer | |
Victor | BVE-53449 | 10-in. | 5/28/1929 | Marche héroïque | Victor Symphonic Band | Band | composer | |
Victor | CVE-59793 | 12-in. | 5/16/1930 | Ballet divertissement | Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra [Washington, D.C.] | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-59794 | 12-in. | 5/16/1930 | Ballet divertissement | Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.) | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-59795 | 12-in. | 5/16/1930 | Ballet divertissement | Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.) | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-59799 | 12-in. | 5/20/1930 | Ballet divertissement | Walter Damrosch ; National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.) | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BVE-62248 | 10-in. | 5/27/1930 | The swan | Mischa Elman ; Carroll Hollister | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | MRC-67418 | 16-in. | 1/25/1931 | Jesse Crawford. 1931-01-25 | Jesse Crawford | Radio broadcast : Pipe organ, with instrumental ensemble, male vocal solo, and announcements | composer | |
Victor | CVE-69639 | 12-in. | 5/21/1931 | Marche militaire francaise | Victor Concert Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BRC-70232 | 10-in. | 9/15/1931 | Le rossignol et la rose | Hazel Glenn | Female vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | BVE-70587 | 10-in. | 2/17/1932 | The swan | The Harding Sisters | Piano and pipe organ duet | composer | |
Victor | BSHQ-71722 | 10-in. | 5/5/1932 | Danse macabre | Fred Erdman | Pipe organ solo (from roll) | composer |
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Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Saint-Saëns, Camille," accessed April 23, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102051.
Saint-Saëns, Camille. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 23, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102051.
"Saint-Saëns, Camille." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 23 April 2024.
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