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 226-250 of 372 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Columbia | 75280 | 12-in. | approximately 1916 | Henry VIII : Ballet music, part 2 | Garde Républicaine Band | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 75281 | 12-in. | approximately 1916 | Henry VIII : Ballet music, part 3 | Garde Républicaine Band | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 75282 | 12-in. | approximately 1916 | Henry VIII : Ballet music, part 4 | Garde Républicaine Band | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 75430 | 12-in. | approximately 1917 | Trio in F major, op. 17 : Andante | William Murdoch ; Albert Sammons ; W. H. Squire | Piano trio | composer | |
Columbia | 76050 | 12-in. | approximately 1918 | Ascanio : Ballet suite, part 1 | Band of the Grenadier Guards [U.K] ; Lt. A. Williams | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 76051 | 12-in. | approximately 1918 | Ascanio : Ballet suite, part 2 | Band of the Grenadier Guards [U.K] ; Lt. A. Williams | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 76052 | 12-in. | approximately 1918 | Ascanio : Ballet suite, part 3 | Band of the Grenadier Guards [U.K] ; Lt. A. Williams | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 76053 | 12-in. | approximately 1918 | Ascanio : Ballet suite, part 4 | Band of the Grenadier Guards [U.K] ; Lt. A. Williams | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 76558 | 12-in. | approximately 1919 | Introduction and rondo capriccioso, part 1 | Hamilton Harty ; Daisy Kennedy | Violin solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 76559 | 12-in. | approximately 1919 | Introduction and rondo capriccioso, part 2 | Hamilton Harty ; Daisy Kennedy | Violin solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 76885 | 12-in. | 2/22/1923 | Softly awakes my heart | Carrie Herwin ; Albert W. Ketelbey | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 76985 | 12-in. | 5/10/1923 | Trio in F major, op. 17 : Andante | Arthur Catterall ; William Murdoch ; W. H. Squire | Piano trio | composer | |
Columbia | 85929 | 10-in. | approximately January 1920 | Qui donc commande quand il aime | Louis Chartier | Baritone vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
OKeh | 176 | 10-in. | ca. June 1918 | The swan | Vladimir Dubinsky | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
OKeh | S-7145 | 10-in. | ca. Jan. 1920 | The swan | Arthur Hadley | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
OKeh | S-70321 | 10-in. | Nov. 1921 | My heart at thy sweet voice | Damon's Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Brunswick | 1099 | 10-in. | approximately mid-1917 | My heart at thy sweet voice | Marie Morrisey | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | [Br cat 5035-a] | 10-in. | approximately Feb. 1917 | My heart at thy sweet voice | Marie Morrisey | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | [Br cat 5134-b] | 10-in. | approximately Aug. 1917 | The swan | Helen Jeffrey | Violin solo, with harp | composer | |
Brunswick | X9842 | 12-in. | approximately Feb. 1923 | Amour viens aider | Sigrid Onégin | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | 14309 | 12-in. | approximately 1921 | Danse macabre | Vessella's Italian Band | Band | composer | |
Brunswick | 5559-5560 | 10-in. | approximately May 1921 | The swan | Willem Willeke | Cello solo | composer | |
Brunswick | 7361-7362 | 10-in. | approximately Feb. 1922 | Samson and Delilah | Isham Jones Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Brunswick | X9280-X9281 | 12-in. | approximately Nov. 1922 | Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix | Sigrid Onégin | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Brunswick | 12221-12223 | 10-in. | 1/4/1924 | Andante | Elshuco Trio | Instrumental trio | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Saint-Saëns, Camille," accessed October 6, 2024, https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/102051.
Saint-Saëns, Camille. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved October 6, 2024, from https://adpprod1.library.ucsb.edu/names/102051.
"Saint-Saëns, Camille." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 6 October 2024.
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