Camille Saint-Saëns on music and musicians /
Saint-Saëns, Camille,1835-1921.
Nichols, Roger.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2008.
Introduction -- Art for art's sake -- Harmony and melody -- The Birmingham Festivals -- Musical eccentricities -- Hélène -- On not writing a preface -- Musical trends -- In defence of Opéra-comique -- The old Conservatoire -- The organ -- Meyerbeer -- Rossini -- Berlioz I -- Berlioz II -- Liszt I -- Liszt II -- Wagner : the Ring of the Nibelung and the Bayreuth premiere, August 1876 -- The Wagnerian illusion -- Charles Gounod -- Jacques Offenbach I -- Jacques Offenbach II -- Memories of childhood -- Georges Bizet -- Jules Massenet -- Pauline Viardot -- Four poems to friends.
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921.
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