Research Catalog

Title

Camille Saint-Saëns and his world / edited by Jann Pasler.

Publication

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Pasler, Jann.
• Bard Music Festival.

Description

xviii, 422 p. : ill., music, facsims.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Princeton paperbacks

Uniform Title

• Princeton paperbacks.
• Bard Music Festival series.

Subjects

• Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921
• Composers > France > Biography
• Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921 > Influence

Note

• "Published in conjunction with The Bard Music Festival"--P. [ii].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Saint-Saëns, "Algerian by adoption" / Jann Pasler -- 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 -- Preface, Rameau's Pièces de Clavecin (Durand, 1895) -- Lyres and citharas of antiquity / Maire-Gabrielle Soret -- Ancient lyres and citharas -- Saint-Saëns and d'Indy in dialogue / Jann Pasler -- Saint-Saëns's advocacy of music education in elementary school / Jann Pasler -- Report of M. Saint-Saëns -- Saint-Saëns and the future of music / Byron Adams and Jann Pasler -- Musical evolution -- The fox in the henhouse, or Saint-Saëns at the SMI / Michel Duchesneau -- Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and their piano concertos : sounding out a legacy / Michael J. Puri -- Saint-Saëns and silent film, sound film and Saint-Saëns / Martin Marks -- Beyond the conceits of the avant-garde : Saint-Saëns, Romain Rolland, and the musical culture of the nineteenth century / Leon Botstein.

Call Number

JME 12-924

ISBN

• 9780691155562 (paperback)
• 0691155569 (paperback)
• 9780691155555
• 0691155550

LCCN

2012937254

OCLC

809369682

Title

Camille Saint-Saëns and his world / edited by Jann Pasler.

Imprint

Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2012.

Series

Princeton paperbacks

Princeton paperbacks.

Bard Music Festival series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Pasler, Jann.

Bard Music Festival.

Research Call Number

JME 12-924