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 201-225 of 362 records)
Company | Matrix No. | Size | First Recording Date | Title | Primary Performer | Description | Role | Audio |
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Columbia | 49740 | 12-in. | ca. 1920 | Amour viens aider ma faiblesse | Jeanne Gordon | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 49752 | 12-in. | 2/10/1920 | Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix | Jeanne Gordon | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 49796 | 12-in. | 4/22/1920 | The swan | Pablo Casals ; Walter Golde | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 98074 | 12-in. | 4/27/1923 | Printemps qui commence | Cyrena Van Gordon | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 98126 | 12-in. | 2/28/1924 | Introduction and rondo capriccioso | Sascha Jacobsen | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 98145 | 12-in. | 4/18/1924 | Introduction and rondo capriccioso | Sascha Jacobsen | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | [W]149119 | 10-in. | 10/9/1929 | The swan | Jasha Bunchuk | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | W98227 | 12-in. | 2/3/1926 | Danse bacchanale | Walter Damrosch ; New York Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | W98242 | 12-in. | 2/15/1926 | Le cygne | Simeon Rumschisky ; Felix Salmond | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | W98267 | 12-in. | 5/6/1926 | Le rossignol et la rose | Eva Leoni | Soprano vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | W98276 | 12-in. | 6/11/1926 | Prelude | Toscha Seidel | Violin and piano duet | composer | |
Columbia | W98582 | 12-in. | 9/6/1928 | Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix | Sophie Braslau | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | W98675 | 12-in. | 12/4/1929 | Romance | Arthur Bergh ; Horace Britt | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 6024 | 12-in. | approximately 1908 | Softly wakes my heart | Margaret Lewys | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 6256 | 12-in. | approximately 1912 | Softly awakes my heart | Carrie Herwin | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 6447 | 12-in. | approximately 1915 | Rondo capriccioso | Leo Strockoff | Violin solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 6517 | 12-in. | approximately 1915 | Le cygne | Hamilton Harty ; W. H. Squire | Cello solo, with piano | composer | |
Columbia | 6656 | 12-in. | approximately 1915 | Mon cœur s'ouvre a ta voix | Clara Butt ; Henry J. Wood | Contralto vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 10410 | 10-in. | approximately 1903 to 1908 | Sansone e Dalila : Figli miei v'arrestate | Luigi Colazza | Tenor vocal solo | composer | |
Columbia | 11151 | 10-in. | approximately 1908 to 1914 | S'apre per te il mio cor | Nini Frascani | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 11152 | 10-in. | approximately 1908 to 1914 | O aprile foreiro | Nini Frascani | Female vocal solo, with orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 26724 | 10-in. | approximately 1909 | Samson and Delilah : Softly awakes my heart | Charles Leggett | Cornet solo, with band | composer | |
Columbia | 56971 | 10-in. | 1912 | Sur les bords du nil | Banda Municipal | Band | composer | |
Columbia | 75259 | 12-in. | approximately 1916 | Danse macabre | New Queen's Hall Orchestra ; Henry J. Wood | Orchestra | composer | |
Columbia | 75279 | 12-in. | approximately 1916 | Henry VIII : Ballet music, part 1 | Garde Républicaine Band | Band | composer |
Citation
Discography of American Historical Recordings, s.v. "Saint-Saëns, Camille," accessed April 27, 2024, https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102051.
Saint-Saëns, Camille. (2024). In Discography of American Historical Recordings. Retrieved April 27, 2024, from https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/names/102051.
"Saint-Saëns, Camille." Discography of American Historical Recordings. UC Santa Barbara Library, 2024. Web. 27 April 2024.
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