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Camille Saint-Saens on music and musicians
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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 o...
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. In this generously annotated volume, renowned scholar, seasoned translator and radio broadcaster Roger Nichols brings some of the composer's most striking and evocative writings brilliantly to life in English translation, many for the first time.
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- edited and translated by Roger Nichols
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- English
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- 1st ed
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
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- xii, 187 p
- ISBNs
- 0199717753, 1281868248, 9786611868246
- OCLC
- ocn476244615
- Intro -- Contents -- PART I. MUSIC -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Art for Art's Sake -- 3. Harmony and Melody -- 4. The Birmingham Festivals -- 5. Musical Eccentricities -- 6. Hélène -- 7. On Not Writing a Preface -- 8. Musical Trends -- 9. In Defence of Opéra-Comique -- 10. The Old Conservatoire -- 11. The Organ -- PART II. MUSICIANS -- 12. Meyerbeer -- 13. Rossini -- 14. Berlioz I -- 15. Berlioz II -- 16. Liszt I -- 17. Liszt II -- 18. Wagner: The Ring of the Nibelung and the Bayreuth Premiere, August 1876 -- 19. The Wagnerian Illusion -- 20. Charles Gounod -- 21. Jacques Offenbach I -- 22. Jacques Offenbach II -- 23. Memories of Childhood -- 24. Georges Bizet -- 25. Jules Massenet -- 26. Pauline Viardot -- 27. Four Poems to Friends -- Pauline Viardot -- Gabriel Fauré -- Augusta Holmès -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z