Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.
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Part of the series Princeton paperbacks;Princeton paperbacks.;Bard Music Festival series.
Notes:
- Published in conjunction with The Bard Music Festival –P. [ii].
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Camille Saint-Saëns in (semi-)private / Mitchell Morris — Saint-Saëns, the playful / Paul Viardot — Inspired by the skies? Saint-Saëns, amateur astronomer / Léo Houziaux — Changes on the moon, optical illusions, the stars / Camille Saint-Saëns — Business and politics, with humor : Saint-Saëns and Auguste Durand / Jann Pasler — Rivals and friends : Saint-Saëns, Massenet, and Thaïs / Jean-Christophe Branger — Massenet-Saint-Saëns correspondence / Camille Saint-Saëns Jules and Louise Massenet — Saint-Saëns and Lecocq : an unwavering friendship / Yves Gérard — Saint-Saëns and the performer’s prestige / Dana Gooley — Le maître and the Strange woman, Marie Jaëll : two virtuoso-composers in resonance / Florence Launay and Jann Pasler — Saint-Saëns’s improvisations on the organ (1862) / William Peterson — Providing direction for French music : Saint-Saëns and the Société Nationale / Michael Strasser — Saint-Saëns as president of the Société des Compositeurs (1887-1891) / Laure Schnapper — Saint-Saëns at the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris (1903-1904) / D. Kern Holoman — Saint-Saëns : the traveling musician / Stéphane Leteuré — Saint-Saëns in Germany / Michael Stegemann — Saint-Saëns in England : his Organ symphony / Sabina Teller Ratner — Analytical and historical programme for his new symphony in C minor and major / Camille Saint-Saëns — Saint-Saëns, Algerian by adoption Friendship and music in Indochina / Jann Pasler — Saint-Saëns in New York / Carolyn Guzski — Saint-Saëns and Latin America / Carol A. Hess — What’s in a song? Saint-Saëns’s Mélodies / Annegret Fauser — Saint-Saëns and the ancient world : from Africa to Greece / Jann Pasler — Saint-Saëns, writer / Maire-Gabrielle Soret — Saint-Saëns and Rameau’s keyboard music / Katharine Ellis
Subjects:
- Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921.
- Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921 — Influence.
- Composers — France — Biography.
Requested by Kagin, R. & Diamond, D.