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Saint-Saëns

[ san-sahns, -sahn ]

noun

  1. Charles Ca·mille [sh, a, r, l k, a, -, mee, -y, uh], 1835–1921, French composer and pianist.


Saint-Saëns

/ sɛ̃sɑ̃s /

noun

  1. Saint-Saëns(Charles) Camille18351921MFrenchMUSIC: composerMUSIC: pianistMUSIC: organist ( Charles ) Camille (kamij). 1835–1921, French composer, pianist, and organist. His works include the symphonic poem Danse Macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the humorous orchestral suite Carnival of Animals (1886), five symphonies, and five piano concertos


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But despite all this apparent activity, M. Saint-Saëns has really succeeded in effecting nothing at all.

Mendelssohn, too, was a person inwardly at war with himself, and perhaps Saint-Saëns may be another example of the same conflict.

And it was a music almost the antithesis of Saint-Saëns' that finally disclosed itself through Franck.

She received instruction from Flotow at first, doing more valuable work afterward with Saint-Saëns.

M. Saint-Saëns has now grown old, and his fame has spread abroad, but he has not capitulated.

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