Camille Saint-Saëns and His World

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Title: Camille Saint-Saëns and His World

Contains: Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments and Permissions
Introduction: Deconstructing Saint-Saëns
PART I SAINT-SAËNS THE PERSON
Saint-Saëns in (Semi-)Private
Saint-Saëns, the Playful
Inspired by the Skies? Saint-Saëns, Amateur Astronomer
Changes on the Moon
Business and Politics, with Humor: Saint-Saëns and Auguste Durand
Rivals and Friends: Saint-Saëns, Massenet, and Thaïs
Massenet–Saint-Saëns Correspondence
Saint-Saëns and Lecocq: An Unwavering Friendship
PART II SAINT-SAËNS THE MUSICIAN
Saint-Saëns and the Performer’s Prestige
Le Maître and the “Strange Woman,” Marie Jaëll: Two Virtuoso-Composers in Resonance
Saint-Saëns’s Improvisations on the Organ (1862)
Providing Direction for French Music: Saint-Saëns and the Société Nationale
Saint-Saëns as President of the Société des Compositeurs (1887–1891)
Saint-Saëns at the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris (1903–1904)
PART III SAINT-SAËNS THE GLOBETROTTER
Saint-Saëns: The Traveling Musician
Saint-Saëns in Germany
Saint-Saëns in England: His Organ Symphony
Analytical and Historical Programme for His New Symphony in C Minor and Major
Saint-Saëns, “Algerian by Adoption”
Friendship and Music in Indochina
Saint-Saëns in New York
Saint-Saëns and Latin America
PART IV SAINT-SAËNS, AESTHETICS PAST AND PRESENT
What’s in a Song? Camille Saint-Saëns’s Mélodies
Saint-Saëns and the Ancient World: From Africa to Greece
Saint-Saëns, Writer
Saint-Saëns and Rameau’s Keyboard Music
Preface, Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin (Durand, 1895)
Lyres and Citharas of Antiquity
Ancient Lyres and Citharas From La Revue de l’art ancien et moderne (1903)
Saint-Saëns and d’Indy in Dialogue
PART V SAINT-SAËNS IN THE THE 20TH CENTURY
Saint-Saëns’s Advocacy of Music Education in Elementary School
Report of M. Saint-Saëns
Saint-Saëns and the Future of Music
Musical Evolution, From Le Ménestrel, 24 June 1906
The Fox in the Henhouse, or Saint-Saëns at the SMI
Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Their Piano Concertos: Sounding Out a Legacy
Saint-Saëns and Silent Film / Sound Film and Saint-Saëns
Beyond the Conceits of the Avant-Garde: Saint-Saëns, Romain Rolland, and the Musical Culture of the Nineteenth Century
Index
Notes on the Contributors

Contributor: Adams, Byron [Contributor]; Botstein, Leon [Contributor]; Branger, Jean-Christophe [Contributor]; Duchesneau, Michel [Contributor]; Ellis, Katharine [Contributor]; Fauser, Annegret [Contributor]; Gooley, Dana [Contributor]; Guzski, Carolyn [Contributor]; Gérard, Yves [Contributor]; Hess, Carol A. [Contributor]; Holoman, D. Kern [Contributor]; Houziaux, Léo [Contributor]; Launay, Florence [Contributor]; Leteuré, Stéphane [Contributor]; Marks, Martin [Contributor]; Massenet, Jules [Contributor]; Massenet, Louise [Contributor]; Morris, Mitchell [Contributor]; Pasler, Jann [Contributor]; Pasler, Jann [Editor]; Peterson, William [Contributor]; Puri, Michael J. [Contributor]; Saint-Saëns, Camille [Contributor]; Schnapper, Laure [Contributor]; Soret, Marie-Gabrielle [Contributor]; Stegemann, Michael [Contributor]; Strasser, Michael [Contributor]; Teller Ratner, Sabina [Contributor]; Viardot, Paul [Contributor]

Published: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, [2022]

Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (440 p.); 25 halftones. 3 tables. 15 musical examples

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9781400845101

ISBN: 9781400845101

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Keywords: Composers France Biography ; MUSIC / History & Criticism ; Académie française ; Andromaque ; Annales algériennes ; Antigone ; Ascanio ; Bacchanale ; Baldensperger, Fernand ; Beecham Symphony Orchestra ; Berlin Philharmonic ; Bonaparte, Napoleon ; Boston Symphony Orchestra ; Brendel, Franz ; Brussels Conservatory ; Busser, Henri ; Canudo, Ricciotto ; Casablanca ; Catholicism ; Choudens, music publisher ; Concerts Colonne ; Concerts Pasdeloup ; Damrosch, Walter ; David, Ferdinand ; [...]

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Footnote: In English

Description: A revealing look at French composer and virtuoso Camille Saint-SaënsCamille Saint-Saëns—perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in nearly every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music—is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his earlier importance. 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 and his music. Topics range from intimate glimpses of the private and playful Saint-Saëns, to the composer's interest in astronomy and republican politics, his performances of Mozart and Rameau over eight decades, and his extensive travels around the world. This collection also analyzes the role he played in various musical societies and his complicated relationship with such composers as Liszt, Massenet, Wagner, and Ravel. Featuring the best contemporary scholarship on this crucial, formative period in French music, Camille Saint-Saëns and His World restores the composer to his vital role as innovator and curator of Western music.The contributors are Byron Adams, Leon Botstein, Jean-Christophe Branger, Michel Duchesneau, Katharine Ellis, Annegret Fauser, Yves Gérard, Dana Gooley, Carolyn Guzski, Carol Hess, D. Kern Holoman, Léo Houziaux, Florence Launay, Stéphane Leteuré, Martin Marks, Mitchell Morris, Jann Pasler, William Peterson, Michael Puri, Sabina Teller Ratner, Laure Schnapper, Marie-Gabrielle Soret, Michael Stegemann, and Michael Strasser

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