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Category:	Romantic Music Cinema
Name:	Camille Saint-Saens
Birth Year:	1835
Death Year:	1921
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Camille Saint-Saens Artist Song Name Composer Composition Instrument The composer and performer Camille Saint-Saens was born on October 9, 1835 in Paris, France. A child prodigy, three years after his birth he could already read and write and began piano lessons then almost immediately began composing. At ten years of age he gave public recitals of Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart. At the age of sixteen, he wrote his first symphony. In 1871 he co-founded the Societe Nationale de Musique. He wrote dramatic works, including four symphonic poems, and 13 operas, of which Samson et Dalila and the symphonic poem Danse Macabre are among his most famous. In all, he composed over three hundred works and was the first major composer to write music specifically for the cinema. Saint-Saens wrote on musical, scientific and historical topics, frequently travelling around Europe, North Africa, and South America before spending his last years in Algiers, Algeria. Saint-Saens died on December 16, 1921, in Algiers. His body was brought back to Paris for a state funeral and was buried in the Cimetiere de Montparnasse, in Paris. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Camille Saint-Saens.] The Great Books: Camille Saint-Saens Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Camille Saint-Saens. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Camille Saint-Saens. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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