Camille Saint-Saëns was no stranger to chamber music. He wrote 26 pieces for different chamber ensembles between 1851 and 1898 that included...

Camille Saint-Saëns music has been accused of many faults. Superficiality, emotionally detached, conservative, and other words have been use...

Saint-Saëns is a composer accused by some of superficiality and glibness, but the second piano trio shows the criticism to be unjust.   Gone...

In 1907 a statue of Saint-Saëns was exhibited in the Paris Salon. An admirer of Saint-Saëns saw it, a Mme. J-Henry Carruette, (obviously a w...

The French poet Armand Renaud was associated with the  Parnassian Poets movement in France (although the movement was not restricted to F...

 Saint-Saëns was the first major French composer to write a piano concerto, and he treats orchestra and piano as equals, with brilliance...

Camille Saint-Saëns was a child prodigy composing his first piece when 4 years old. At his first public recital at the age of 10 years old...

François Benoist was the professor of organ at the Conservatoire de Paris for fifty years and many of France's finest musicians studied ...

Camille Saint-Saëns was an example of the consummate musician as he was a performer, conductor, composer and musicologist. Music was not his...

In 1884 Saint-Saëns went on a concert tour with the violinist Martin Marsick, and perhaps that was the inspiration for the composition of hi...

Camille Saint-Saëns was born in 1835 and during his life of 86 years (he died in 1921) he saw many changes in the world. He was a man of bri...

Camille Saint-Saëns composed the Septet at the request of a chamber music society called  La Trompette, and Saint-Saëns (perhaps tongue in c...