Listening Through The Dictionary of Composers and Their Music
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Bio
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns was born in Paris. He was a child prodigy, giving concerts as a 10-year-old on the piano. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Daniel Auber. He worked as an organist in several prominent French churches and as a teacher at the École de Musique Classique et Religieuse in Paris. Alongside Bizet and Berlioz, one of the greatest French Romantics.
Music
Symphony No. 3
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor
Piano Concerto No. 5
Symphony No. 1
Symphony No. 2 in A minor
Piano Concerto No. 4
Carnival of Animals
Danse Macabre
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