Camille Saint-Saens was a composer and pianist that lived from 9 October 1835 to 16 December 1921( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns) . Camille composed several works of music including Carnival of the Animal. “Saint-Saëns was born in Paris, the only child of Jacques-Joseph-Victor Saint-Saëns” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns). When Camille was a young boy he was taken 29 kilometres (18 mi) to the south of Paris to protect his health. He lived with a nurse at Corbeil for two years (https://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/ Cam ille_ Saint-Sa%C3%ABns). When Camille returned back to Paris he lived with his mother and her aunt (https://en.w ikipedia.org/wiki/ Cam ille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns). “When he was seven …show more content…
he became a pupil of Camille-Marie Stamaty” (https://en .wikipedia .org /wiki /Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns). When Camille was five he gave small performances for small crowds. When he was ten Camille gave a public debut at the Salle Pleyel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns). “In 1848, at the age of thirteen, Saint-Saëns was admitted to the Paris Conservatoire, France's most important music academy” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns).” In 1851 Saint-Saëns won the Conservatoire's top prize for organists, and in the same year he began formal composition studies” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille _Saint-Sa% C3 %ABns). When Camille left the Conservatoire’s in 1853 he became the organist at the ancient Parisian church of Saint-Merri. (https://en.wikipedia. org /wiki /Cam ille_Saint-Sa %C3%ABns). “Entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1848 and studied the organ with Benoist, winning the premier prix in 1851. In the same year he began to study composition and orchestration with Halévy, and also took lessons in accompaniment and singing.” (http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com .w.ezproxy.nypl.org/subscriber/article/ grove/music/24335?q=camille+saint-saens&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit) When Camille played he did everything from memory, which was very uncommon for that time (http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.w.ezpr oxy.nypl.org/subscri ber/article/grove/music/24335?q=camille+saint-saens&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit). Camille was not only good at music he also showed great talent in French classics, religion, Latin and Greek and acquiring a taste for mathematics and the natural sciences, including astronomy, archaeology and philosophy, subjects on which he was later to write with enthusiasm (http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com.w.ezproxy.nypl.org/su bscriber/article/grove/music/24335?q=camille+saint-saens&search=quick&pos=1&_start=1#firsthit). Camille was a bright young boy that had many talents not only in music but in all subjects. He won awards and stood out from the rest of the world. The rest of Camille Saint-Saens life is when he composed most of his works and performed them. He composed several symphonies, operas, etc. “In 1861 Saint-Saëns accepted his only post as a teacher, at the École de Musique Classique et Religieuse, Paris” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns).With his students in mind Camille composed Carnival of the Animals but did not finish untill 1886 (https://en.wikip edia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns). “While teaching at the Niedermeyer school Saint-Saëns put less of his energy into composing and performing, but after he left in 1865 he pursued both aspects of his career with vigour.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C amille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns) In 1867Camille work beat more than a hundred other entries to win the composition prize of the Grande Fête Internationale in Parir (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns) “Saint-Saëns served in the National Guard durring the war.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%A Bns). In the 1860s and 1870s Camille shared a large fourth-floor flat in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré with his mother. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamilleSaint -Sa %C3%ABns) “In 1875 he surprised many by marrying. The groom was approaching forty and his bride was nineteen; she was Marie-Laure Truffot, the sister of one of the composer's pupils. The marriage was not a success” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%AB ns) “The couple had two sons, both of whom died in infancy. In 1878, the elder, André, aged two, fell from a window of the flat and was killed; the younger, Jean-François, died of pneumonia six weeks later, aged six months” The deaths of both their sons that quickly after each other was thought to be the cause of the divorce. (https://en.wikipe dia.org/wiki/CamilleSaint -Sa %C3%ABns) Camille traveled very offten from 1870 till the end of Camlle’s lif he made 179 trips to 27 countries, most times to England and Germany. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamilleSaint -Sa %C3%ABns) “During the 1890s Saint-Saëns spent much time on “holiday”, travelling overseas, composing less and performing more infrequently than before” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille Saint -Sa %C3%ABns) Caille lived without a perminate home for 10 years untill Saint-Saëns took a flat in the rue de Courcelles This remained his home for the rest of his life. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamilleSaint -Sa %C3%ABns) “In 1906 and 1909 he made highly successful tours of the US, as a pianist and conductor. In New York on his second visit he premiered his "Praise ye the Lord" for double choir, orchestra and organ, which he composed for the occasion.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamilleSaint -Sa %C3%ABns) Camille Saint-Saens lived most of his life traveling or composing, he did preformences all around the world and gained many followers as time went by. One of Camille Saint-Saens most famous pieces is Carnival of the Animals.
Carnival of the Animals is a fun and exciting piece that replicates many animals sounds and movements. “The Carnival of the Animals (Le carnaval des animaux) is a musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carnival_of_the_Animals) He replicated sounds of Lions, Hens & Roosters, Donkeys, Tortoise, Elephents, Kangaroos, Aquarium, Personages with Long Ears, Cuckoo, Aviary, Pianists, Fossils, Swan, and the Finale. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carnival_of_the_Animals) If Carnival o the Animals is played straight through it last around 25 minutes. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki /The Carnival_of_the_Animals) “Saint-Saëns withdrew to a small Austrian village, where he composed The Carnival of the Animals in February 1886” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ The_Carnival_of_the_Animals) Carnival of the Animals was written for two pianos, two violins, viola, cello, double bass, flute (and piccolo), clarinet (C and B♭), glass harmonica, and xylophone. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carnival_of_the_Animals) Camille intended to write the work for his students at the École Niedermeyer but he didnt finish it untill two late. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carnival_of_the_Animals) “seeing it as detracting from his "serious" composer image” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carnival_of_the_Animals) This statement tells me that Carnival of the Animals was new type of composing for Camille Saint-Saent. I do not think that Carnival of the Animals was was within his conventional compositional style. Carnival of the Animals was a fun piece the Caille wrote for his students that then become one of his most famous
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