Camille Saint-Saëns on music and musicians /
Camille Saint-Saëns is a memorable figure not only for his successes as a composer of choral and orchestral works, and the eternally popular opera 'Samson et Dalila', but also because he was a keen observer of the musical culture in which he lived. This text brings some of his writings to...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Art for art's sake
- Harmony and melody
- The Birmingham Festivals
- Musical eccentricities
- Hélène
- On not writing a preface
- Musical trends
- In defence of Opéra-comique
- The old Conservatoire
- The organ
- Meyerbeer
- Rossini
- Berlioz I
- Berlioz II
- Liszt I
- Liszt II
- Wagner : Bayreuth 1876
- The Wagnerian illusion
- Gounod
- Offenbach I
- Offenbach II
- Memories of childhood
- Bizet
- Massenet
- Pauline Viardot
- Four poems to friends
- Introduction
- Art for art's sake
- Harmony and melody
- The Birmingham Festivals
- Musical eccentricities
- Hélène
- On not writing a preface
- Musical trends
- In defence of Opéra-comique
- The old Conservatoire
- The organ
- Meyerbeer
- Rossini
- Berlioz I
- Berlioz II
- Liszt I
- Liszt II
- Wagner : Bayreuth 1876
- The Wagnerian illusion
- Gounod
- Offenbach I
- Offenbach II
- Memories of childhood
- Bizet
- Massenet
- Pauline Viardot
- Four poems to friends
- Introduction
- Art for art's sake
- Harmony and melody
- The Birmingham Festivals
- Musical eccentricities
- Hélène
- On not writing a preface
- Musical trends
- In defence of Opéra-comique
- The old Conservatoire
- The organ
- Meyerbeer
- Rossini
- Berlioz I
- Berlioz II
- Liszt I
- Liszt II
- Wagner : the Ring of the Nibelung and the Bayreuth premiere, August 1876
- The Wagnerian illusion
- Charles Gounod
- Jacques Offenbach I
- Jacques Offenbach II
- Memories of childhood
- Georges Bizet
- Jules Massenet
- Pauline Viardot
- Four poems to friends