Camille Saint-Saëns

1835 - 1921
Camille Saint Saëns was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era.

📖 "One must practice slowly, then more slowly, and finally slowly."

📖 "The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music."

📖 "There is nothing more difficult than talking about music."

📖 "I produce music as an apple tree produces apples."

📖 "I like good company, but I like hard work still better."

📖 "What gives Bach and Mozart a place apart is that these two great expressive composers never sacrificed form to expression."

📖 "Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece."

📖 "He who does not take a thorough pleasure in a simple chord progression, well constructed, beautiful in its arrangement, does not love music; he who does not prefer the first 'Prelude' in the Well-Tempered Clavier played without nuances as the composer wrote it for the instrument, to the same prelude embellished with a passionate melody, does not love music; he who does not prefer a folk tune of a lovely character, or a Gregorian chant without any accompaniment to a series fo dissonant and pretentious chords does not love music."
Camille Saint-Saëns École buissonnière (1913)

Quotes by Camille Saint-Saëns

Piano Duets by Saint-Saëns

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👉 Saint-Saens Carnaval des Animaux / piano 4 hands arranged by Lucien Garban (Durans, 1922)

Some Recordings of Piano Music by Saint-Saëns

Saint-Saëns plays Valse Mignonne

Piano Works by Camille Saint-Saëns

Op. 3 Six bagatelles, 1855 (1856)

Op. 11 Duettino, G, 4 hands, 1855/8 (1861)

Op. 21 Mazurka no.1, g, 1862 (1868)

Op. 23 Gavotte, c, 1871 (1872), orchd

Op. 24 Mazurka no.2, g, 1871 (1872)

— Romance sans paroles, b, 1871 (1872)

Op. 56 Menuet et valse, 1872 (1878)

Op. 35 Variations on a Theme of Beethoven E♭, 2 pf, 1874 (1874)

Op. 52 Six études, 1877 (1877)

Op. 59 König Harald Harfagar, E♭, 4 hands, 1880 (1880)

Op. 66 Mazurka no.3, b, 1882 (1883)

Op. 70 Allegro appassionato, c♯, orch ad lib, 1884 (1884)

Op. 72 Album, 1884 (1884)

— Improvisation, A, 1885 (1885)

77 Polonaise, f, 2 pf, 1885 (1886)

Op. 80 Souvenir d'Italie, G, 1887 (1887)

Op. 81 Feuillet d'album, B♭, 4 hands, 1887 (1887)

Op. 86 Pas redoublié, B♭, 4 hands, 1887 (1890)

— Bourrée, a, c1888 (1888)

Op. 85 Les cloches du soir, E♭, 1889 (1889)

Op. 87 Scherzo, 2 pf, 1889 (1890)

Op. 88 Valse canariote, a, 1890 (1890)

Op. 90 Suite, F, 1891 (1892)

Op. 111 Six études, 1892, 1899 (1899)

Op. 95 Fantaisie, hp, 1893 (1893)

Op. 96 Caprice arabe, A, 2 pf, 1894 (1894)

Op. 97 Thème varié, 1894 (1894)

Op. 100 Souvenir d'Ismaïlia, 1895 (1895)

Op. 104 Valse mignonne, E♭, 1896 (1896)

Op. 105 Berceuse, E, 1896 (1896)

Op. 8bis Duos, 2 pf, 1897 (1898) [after duos for pf, org, op.8]

Op. 106 Caprice héroïque, 2 pf, 1898 (1898)

Op. 110 Valse nonchalante, D♭, 1899 (1898), orchd

— Le Ruisseau, 1900 (1900)

Op. 120 Valse langoureuse, E, 1903 (1903)

— Morceau de concours no.2, 1904 (1905)

— Feuillet d'album, B♭, 1909 (1909)

Op. 135 Six études, left hand, 1912 (1912)

Op. 139 Valse gaie, 1912 (1913)

— Allegro, E♭, 1913 (1913) [after Pf Conc no.3]

Op. 161 Six Fugues, 1920 (1920)

Op. 163 Marche dédiée aux étudiants d'Alger, E♭, 4 hands, 1921 (1922)

Op. 169 Feuillet d'album, A♭, 1921 (1922)

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