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Camille Saint-Saens.(Book review)
Camille Saint-Saens. By Jean Gallois. (Collection Musique/Musicologie.) Sprimont: Mardaga, 2004. [382 p. ISBN 2-87009-851-0. [euro]36.] Index.
After decades of relative neglect, French music and musical life of the late nineteenth century has in recent years become the subject of renewed interest. Scholars have begun to reexamine the rather simplistic generalizations about the music, institutions, and major figures of this period that had been codified during the first decades of the twentieth century and then passed down without question for several generations. Our understanding of one of the most important and interesting periods in French musical history has, ...
- Camille Saint-Saens, 1835-1921. A Thematic Catalogue of his Complete Works....
- Magazine article from: Notes Speare, Mary Jean June 1, 2003 700+ words
Camille Saint-Saens, 1835-1921. A Thematic Catalogue...thematic catalog of the works of Saint-Saens is the product of a long labor beginning...habits), and a discussion of Saint-Saens's publishers and his correspondence...
- Camille Saint-Saens: A Life.(Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Library Journal McGee, Timothy J. November 1, 1999 700+ words
Rees, Brian. Camille Saint-Saens: A Life. Chatto & Windus...study of the life and music of Saint-Saens as well as the artistic, social...neglected. Though he admits that Saint-Saens was a difficult person, he tends...
- Camille Saint-Saens.(Review)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Booklist Hirsch, Alan November 1, 1999 700+ words
Rees, Brian. Camille Saint-Saens. Nov. 1999. 485p. index. illus...organist, composer, and writer Saint-Saens (1835-1921). Revered as teacher...his curmudgeonly facade. A Saint-Saens' revival seems long overdue, especially...
- Placido Domingo to Sing Dress Rehearsal of Camille Saint-Saens' Samson Et...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 31, 1999 700+ words
...Los Angeles Opera season opening production of Camille Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila, starring Placido Domingo and...One of the great masterpieces of French opera, Camille Saint-Saens' Samson et Dalila is a passionate recreation of...
- Emotional feast of organ music ..BY: By Faridul Anwar Farinordin ..LD: THE...
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire December 18, 2003 700+ words
...emotion, literally speaking, when the famous work by Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), reputedly the "finest organist in...the symphony was specifically written by Saint-Saens to showcase the greatness of its massive pipe organ...
- Camille Saint-Saes: A Life.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Zaluski, Iwo August 1, 1999 700+ words
...Brahms who wrote that Saint-Saens was the greatest composer who...ring of credibility to it. Camille Saint-Saens will never achieve the cult...offering. Such, regrettably, is Camille Saint-Saens: A Life by Brian Rees. Although...
- Saint-Saens and the Organ.
- Magazine article from: Notes Doherty, Brian September 1, 1994 700+ words
...principally by Cesar Franck, Camille Saint-Saens, and the organ builder Aristide...studies (cf., e.g., Camille Saint-Saens, by Jean Bonnerot [Paris: Durand, 1923] and Camille Saint-Saens, His Life and Art, by Watson...
- The Saint-Saens enigma.
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Stove, R. J. January 1, 2000 700+ words
Poor Saint-Saens! He was blessed from childhood with...even at the apex of his renown, Camille Saint-Saens remained eminently patronizable. Just...above all, bears remembering. Saint-Saens--he died in 1921, having exercised...
- Saens and sensibilite.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Stove, R.J. October 1, 2005 700+ words
...editor The Correspondence of Camille Saint-Saens & Gabriel Faure: Sixty Years...twenty-seven-year-old Saint-Saens's pupil at Paris' second music...Faure's epistles but with Saint-Saens's. These repeatedly flaunt a...
- Saint-Saens: A Critical Biography.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Notes STRASSER, MICHAEL September 1, 2000 700+ words
Saint-Saens: A Critical Biography. By Stephen...1-900541-65-3. $49.50.] Camille Saint-Saens was arguably the most famous and influential...Faure and Vincent d'Indy, Saint-Saens suffered. profound neglect for most...
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