Camille Saint-Saëns and His World /

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

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 centur...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.) :; 25 halftones. 3 tables. 15 musical examples.
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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

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