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 151-175 of 362 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | BS-071536 | 10-in. | 10/6/1941 | Danse macabre | Harry Breuer ; Sam Praeger ; Lew White | Organ solo, with piano and xylophone (take 2); with drums (take 1) | composer | |
Victor | D7VB-0221 | 10-in. | 4/1/1947 | The swan | Russ Case Orchestra ; Doris Stockton | Marimba solo, with instrumental ensemble | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1913-05-09-01] | Not documented | 5/9/1913 | A dream | Agnes Riefsnyder | Female vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1913-10-14-18] | Not documented | 10/14/1913 | My heart at thy sweet voice | Martha Steele | Female vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1914-02-18-03] | Not documented | 2/18/1914 | My heart at thy dear voice | Angeline Kroll | Female vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1915-04-01-01] | Not documented | 4/1/1915 | The swan | Donald MacBeath | Instrumental solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1916-04-18-02] | Not documented | 4/18/1916 | Le cygne | Hans Kindler | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1917-01-12-04] | Not documented | 1/12/1917 | My heart at thy sweet voice | Nevada Van der Veer | Female vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1917-01-15-02] | Not documented | 1/15/1917 | My heart at thy sweet voice | Kathryn Meisle | Contralto vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1919-03-13-03] | Not documented | 3/13/1919 | Serenade | La Sourdine Ensemble | Instrumental trio | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1919-03-17-04] | Not documented | 3/17/1919 | Samson et Dalilah : Aria | Gabriella Besanzoni | Contralto vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1923-02-14-01] | 10-in. | 2/14/1923 | Deep river | Bertha Denny | Female vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1924-02-06-01] | 10-in. | 2/6/1924 | My heart at thy sweet voice | Dora Damon Pardee | Cornet solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | [Trial 1924-03-20-02] | 10-in. | 3/20/1924 | My heart at thy sweet voice | Marion Telva | Contralto vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 1380 | 10-in. | approximately 1903 | Dalilah's grand aria | Ernestine Schumann-Heink | Soprano vocal solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 4042 | 10-in. | between January and May 1909 | The swan | Jean Schwiller | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 38751 | 10-in. | 4/4/1913 | The swan | Georges Barrère | Flute solo, with string orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 38869 | 10-in. | 5/21/1913 | Softly awakes my heart | Ellery Band ; Taddeo di Girolamo | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 38917 | 10-in. | 6/23/1913 | Prelude to the deluge | Arthur Gramm | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 39241 | 10-in. | 2/14/1914 | Israel burst your bonds | Morgan Kingston | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 45508 | 10-in. | 3/31/1915 | Arrêtez, Ô mes frères | Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 45935 | 10-in. | 8/10/1915 | Danse macabre | Prince's Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 46301 | 10-in. | 12/23/1915 | Serenade | Trio de Lutece | Instrumental trio | composer | |
Columbia | 46738 | 10-in. | 5/2/1916 | Cantabile | Walfried Singer ; Bruno Steindel | Harp and cello duet, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 46888 | 10-in. | 6/30/1916 | The curse | Graham Marr | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer |
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Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Saint-Saëns, Camille," accessed April 24, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102051.
Saint-Saëns, Camille. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 24, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102051.
"Saint-Saëns, Camille." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 24 April 2024.
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