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Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) was a French romantic composer, pianist and organist, and teacher.
Saint-Saëns was born in Paris on 9th October 1835. A child prodigy, he had lessons with Camille-Marie Stamaty and Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, going on to the Paris Conservatoire in 1848, where he was taught by Fromental Halévy.
He soon came to the notice - and earned the admiration of - such eminent composers as Charles Gounod, Gioacchino Rossini, Hector Berlioz, and Franz Liszt. He was appointed organist at the Madeleine (1857-1875), and taught at the École Niedermeyer from 1861 to 1865, Gabriel Fauré being one of his pupils.
Aside from these paid positions, Saint-Saëns was heavily involved in the musical world; he organised concerts of Liszt’s symphonic poems, he worked to revive popular interest in earlier, especially Baroque, composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Jean-Philippe Rameau, but he also, on behalf of new French music, co-founded the Société Nationale de Musique in 1871. He also wrote on music, science, and history, and often travelled around Europe, North Africa, and South America.
Saint-Saëns was a virtuoso pianist and a prolific composer. His best-known work among general audience is Le carnaval des animaux (1886), though he forbade performances of it in his lifetime, apart from “Le cygne”.
In a themepark in the Netherlands, called ‘De Efteling’ there’s a ride, called ‘Het Spookslot’ (Haunted Mansion). In this ride the song ‘La Dans Macabre’ is played. This play is based upon a French poet, called ‘Dans Macabre’, by Henri Cazalis.
Saint-Saëns was born in Paris on 9th October 1835. A child prodigy, he had lessons with Camille-Marie Stamaty and Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, going on to the Paris Conservatoire in 1848, where he was taught by Fromental Halévy.
He soon came to the notice - and earned the admiration of - such eminent composers as Charles Gounod, Gioacchino Rossini, Hector Berlioz, and Franz Liszt. He was appointed organist at the Madeleine (1857-1875), and taught at the École Niedermeyer from 1861 to 1865, Gabriel Fauré being one of his pupils.
Aside from these paid positions, Saint-Saëns was heavily involved in the musical world; he organised concerts of Liszt’s symphonic poems, he worked to revive popular interest in earlier, especially Baroque, composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Jean-Philippe Rameau, but he also, on behalf of new French music, co-founded the Société Nationale de Musique in 1871. He also wrote on music, science, and history, and often travelled around Europe, North Africa, and South America.
Saint-Saëns was a virtuoso pianist and a prolific composer. His best-known work among general audience is Le carnaval des animaux (1886), though he forbade performances of it in his lifetime, apart from “Le cygne”.
In a themepark in the Netherlands, called ‘De Efteling’ there’s a ride, called ‘Het Spookslot’ (Haunted Mansion). In this ride the song ‘La Dans Macabre’ is played. This play is based upon a French poet, called ‘Dans Macabre’, by Henri Cazalis.
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Smooooooth wrote:
GENIUS!! The Carnival of Animals is absolutely mindblowing!! -\m/_(O.o)_\m/-
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callhim wrote:
удивительно! как мёртвый человек может быть в турне?
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Heilig_Zorn wrote:
"Das Aquarium" is enchanting!
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Heilig_Zorn wrote:
Wow :O great work!
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Lindajing wrote:
DANSE MACABRE ♥
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mss91 wrote:
Cuckoo!
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TheTrueSeker wrote:
Holy shit, the dude from Zeta Gundam grew a big-ass beard, went back in time, and wrote a really good symphony.
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arcania wrote:
how this happened that I've never heard of Camille? God.
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Redingot wrote:
He has as display picture his best photograph and it never changes. Love that.
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kolory_raju wrote:
brawo!
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Cawua wrote:
the best
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zunari wrote:
THE CUCKOO
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kreltak wrote:
great composer
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xErasedCitizenx wrote:
i'm so a top listener, I just wrote 2104 words on the organ symphony!
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Tomodachi wrote:
Anyone have
Asturias (Leyenda) full track in piano, piece from the Lexus commercial http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cBPQI46qPA ? Who played the ad version?
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cosmicjess wrote:
magical.
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henriquee_t88 wrote:
Oh Camille, I thought you were a woman, not this bearded old man =P
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phantompabulum wrote:
Join the Camille Saint-Saëns group if you love his works!
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Eliza_Doolittle wrote:
So beautiful
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schneder wrote:
Fishis-Everywhere!
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