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 176-200 of 372 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Columbia | 47339 | 10-in. | either 1916 or 1917 | Le bonheur est chose légère | Eva Gauthier | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 77365 | 10-in. | 9/21/1917 | Le cygne | Jules Falk | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 79756 | 10-in. | 3/4/1921 | The deluge : Prelude, op. 45 | Duci De Kerékjártó | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 80221 | 10-in. | 2/26/1922 | Spring with her dower | Cyrena Van Gordon | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 80783 | 10-in. | 1/11/1923 | Le deluge : Prelude | Duci De Kerékjártó ; Maurice Eisner | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 30172 | 12-in. | approximately July 1908 | Operatic fantasie | Victor E. Sorlin | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 30490 | 12-in. | ca. 1910-Feb. 1911 | Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix | Mary Desmond | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 30664 | 12-in. | 2/7/1911 | Mon coeur s'ouvre á ta voix | Maria Gay | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 30669 | 12-in. | 2/9/1911 | Printemps qui commence | Maria Gay | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 30835 | 12-in. | ca. 1911 | Printemps qui commence | Rosa Olitzka | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 30836 | 12-in. | ca. 1911 | Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix | Rosa Olitzka | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 36825 | 12-in. | 11/19/1913 | Amour, viens aider ma faiblesse | Jeanne Gerville-Réache | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 36832 | 12-in. | ca. 1913 | Mon coeur s'ouvre | Jeanne Gerville-Réache | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 36913 | 12-in. | approximately 1914 | Samson's prayer | Morgan Kingston | Tenor vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 36925 | 12-in. | ca. 1914 | Amour, viens aider ma faiblesse | Ottilie Metzger | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 37150 | 12-in. | 1/24/1915 | The swan | Charles Albert Baker ; Pablo Casals | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 48721 | 12-in. | 4/22/1916 | Allegro appassionato | Charles Albert Baker ; Pablo Casals | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 48742 | 12-in. | 4/28/1916 | Danse des juives and bacchanale | Ernest Ansermet | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 48770 | 12-in. | 5/2/1916 | Danse bacchanale | Chicago Symphony Orchestra ; Frederick Stock | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 48852 | 12-in. | 7/5/1916 | Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix | Margarete Matzenauer | Mezzo-soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 49098 | 12-in. | 1/24/1917 | Marche militaire | Philharmonic Orchestra of New York ; Josef Stransky | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 49352 | 12-in. | 4/1/1918 | Classic waltz | Jockers Brothers | Violin and piano duet | composer | |
Columbia | 49530 | 12-in. | 10/18/1918 | Le rouet d'Omphale | André Messager ; Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 49534 | 12-in. | 10/21/1918 | The deluge : Prelude | André Messager ; Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire | Orchestra, with violin solo | composer | |
Columbia | 49537 | 12-in. | 10/22/1918 | Danse bacchanale | French Symphony Orchestra ; André Messager ; Orchestre de la Société des concerts du Conservatoire | Orchestra | 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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