Camille Saint-Saëns and His World / / ed. by Jann Pasler.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Adams, Byron,; Botstein, Leon,; Branger, Jean-Christophe,; Duchesneau, Michel,; Ellis, Katharine,; Fauser, Annegret,; Gooley, Dana,; Guzski, Carolyn,; Gérard, Yves,; Hess, Carol A.,; Holoman, D. Kern,; Houziaux, Léo,; Launay, Florence,; Leteuré, Stéphane,; Marks, Martin,; Massenet, Jules,; Massenet, Louise,; Morris, Mitchell,; Pasler, Jann,; Peterson, William,; Puri, Michael J.,; Saint-Saëns, Camille,; Schnapper, Laure,; Soret, Marie-Gabrielle,; Stegemann, Michael,; Strasser, Michael,; Teller Ratner, Sabina,; Viardot, Paul,
• HerausgeberIn: Pasler, Jann,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: The Bard Music Festival ; 32
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.) :; 25 halftones. 3 tables. 15 musical examples.

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.

Table of Contents

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