Camille Saint-Saëns(1835-1921)
- Music Department
- Composer
- Writer
Composer chiefly remembered for his symphonic poems -the first of that
genre to be written by a Frenchman- and for his opera 'Samson et
Dalila'. Notable for his pioneering efforts on behalf of French music,
he was also a gifted pianist and organist, and a writer of criticism,
poetry, essays, and plays. Of his concerti and symphonies, in which he
adapted the virtuosity of Franz Liszt's style to French traditions of
harmony and form, his 'Third Symphony' is most often performed.
