Saint-Saëns taught briefly at the newly established Ecole Niedermeyer, where Gabriel Fauré, a musician with whom he established a close relationship, was among his pupils.
Composer Biography
By the age of ten, Saint-Saëns had memorized all of Beethoven's piano sonatas and appeared in public concerts as a child.
Composer Biography
Camille Saint-Saëns, like Mozart and Mendelssohn, showed remarkable musical precocity, beginning piano lessons at two and a half years old.
Composition History
Saint-Saëns was instrumental in founding the Société Nationale de Musique in 1871, after the Franco-Prussian War, with the aim of promoting French music, Ars Gallica.
Composition History
Saint-Saëns approached the string quartet form very late in his life, writing his String Quartet in E minor, Op. 112, at the age of 64 in 1899.
Performer Biography
The Fine Arts Quartet, founded in Chicago in 1946, has toured internationally for over half a century and has recorded over 200 works.
Composer Biography
Saint-Saëns's reputation in France had somewhat faded by the time of his death in Algeria in 1921, an era dominated by composers like Les Six and Stravinsky.
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