Saint-Saëns: On Music and Musicians

by Roger Nichols and Camille Saint-Saëns

Camille Saint-Sa?ns 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. A composer of vast intelligence and erudition, Saint-Sa?ns was at the same time one of the foremost writers on music in his day. From Wagner, Liszt and Debussy to Milhaud and Stravinsky, Saint-Sa?ns was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195320166
• ISBN13: 9780195320169
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"