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 51-75 of 362 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Victor | C-18821 | 12-in. | 12/7/1916 | Vois ma misère, hélas! | Enrico Caruso | Tenor vocal solo, with vocal chorus and piano | composer | |
Victor | B-19060 | 10-in. | 1/18/1917 | La Française | Torcom Bézazian | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-19850 | 12-in. | 5/14/1917 | Marche militaire francaise | Victor Concert Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-19977 | 10-in. | 6/6/1917 | Aimons-nous | Torcom Bézazian | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-19978 | 10-in. | 6/6/1917 | Désir d'amour | Torcom Bézazian | Male vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-20871 | 10-in. | 10/17/1917 | Pastoral | Florence Hinkle ; Herbert Witherspoon | Vocal duet (soprano and bass), with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-21091 | 12-in. | 11/19/1917 | Rêverie du soir | Victor Concert Orchestra | Orchestra, with viola solo | composer | |
Victor | B-22236 | 10-in. | 9/11/1918 | Le deluge: Prelude | Efrem Zimbalist | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Victor | C-22501 | 12-in. | 1/7/1919 | Waltz etude | Alfred Cortot | Piano solo | composer | |
Victor | CVE-22501 | 12-in. | 10/26/1926 | Waltz etude | Alfred Cortot | Piano solo | composer | |
Victor | C-22575 | 12-in. | 2/10/1919 | Je viens célébrer la victoire | Enrico Caruso ; Louise Homer ; Marcel Journet | Vocal trio (contralto, tenor, and bass), with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-22627 | 12-in. | 3/17/1919 | Printemps qui commence | Louise Homer | Contralto vocal solo, with piano and orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-23584 | 10-in. | 1/16/1920 | S'apre per te il mio cor | Gabriella Besanzoni | Contralto vocal solo, with cello obbligato and orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-23766 | 12-in. | 3/10/1920 | Aprile foriero | Gabriella Besanzoni | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Victor | C-24630 | 12-in. | 10/18/1920 | Bacchanale | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | CVE-24630 | 12-in. | 10/13/1927 | Bacchanale | Philadelphia Orchestra ; Leopold Stokowski | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-25247 | 10-in. | 4/29/1921 | Nightingale and the rose | Mabel Garrison | Soprano vocal solo, with harp and orchestra | composer | |
Victor | B-25248 | 10-in. | 4/29/1921 | Le rossignol et la rose | Mabel Garrison | Soprano vocal solo, with organ and harp | composer | |
Victor | BVE-25908 | 10-in. | 11/30/1926 | La bergeronette | Victor Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Victor | BVE-26377 | 10-in. | 8/18/1926 | Oriental | Paul Whiteman Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Victor | B-26377 | 10-in. | 5/23/1922 | Oriental fox trot | Paul Whiteman Orchestra | Jazz/dance band | composer | |
Victor | C-27278 | 12-in. | 1/3/1923 | Danse macabre | Guy Maier ; Lee Pattison | Piano duet | composer | |
Victor | C-27279 | 12-in. | 1/3/1923 | Danse macabre | Guy Maier ; Lee Pattison | Piano duet | composer | |
Victor | B-27345 | 10-in. | 12/27/1922 | Bourrée | Alfred Cortot | Piano solo | composer | |
Victor | B-27420 | 10-in. | 1/22/1923 | Scherzo | Guy Maier ; Lee Pattison | Piano duet | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Saint-Saëns, Camille," accessed April 26, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102051.
Saint-Saëns, Camille. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 26, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102051.
"Saint-Saëns, Camille." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 26 April 2024.
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