Saint-saens biography book

Saint-Saens: A Critical Biography.

Saint Saens was possibly the greatest among the many great organists of 19th-century France, and a composer of stature.

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Camille Saint-Saens was a child prodigy who grew to be acclaimed in his lifetime as the incarnation of French genius: a virtuoso pianist.

Camille Saint-Saens: A Life.

In a wide-ranging and trenchant series of essays, articles, and documents, Camille Saint-Saëns and His World deconstructs the multiple realities behind the man.

By Stephen Studd. London: Cygnus Arts, [x, p. ISBN $]

Camille Saint-Saens was arguably the most famous and influential composer in France at the turn of the last century, a fact that might surprise many who know little of his music and even less about his life and work.

Like his near contemporaries Gabriel Faure and Vincent d'Indy, Saint-Saens suffered. profound neglect for most of the twentieth century, his achievements and stature diminished as a result of the fierce polemical debates that dominated French musical life during the decades immediately before and after the First World War.

The dust cast up by these rhetorical battles has seriously distorted our image of late-nineteenth-century French music history, and it is only in recent years that scholars have begun to take a fresh look at the personalities, institutions, and events that shaped this important er