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Camille Saint-Saëns

1835 - 1921

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Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (UK: , US: , French: [ʃaʁl kamij sɛ̃sɑ̃(s)] 9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886). Saint-Saëns was a musical prodigy; he made his concert debut at the age of ten. After studying at the Paris Conservatoire he followed a conventional career as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri, Paris and, from 1858, La Madeleine, the official church of the French Empire. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Camille Saint-Saëns is the 39th most popular composer (up from 52nd in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from France (up from 179th in 2019) and the 6th most popular French Composer.

Camille Saint-Saëns is most famous for his "Danse Macabre" which he wrote in 1872. This piece, which is based on a poem by Henri Cazalis, tells the story of a man who is confronted by Death in the form of a skeleton.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Camille Saint-Saëns ranks 39 out of 1,451. Before him are Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, Jean Sibelius, Béla Bartók, Christoph Willibald Gluck, and Domenico Scarlatti. After him are Johann Strauss I, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Antonio Salieri, Gaetano Donizetti, Jean-Baptiste Lully, and Orlande de Lassus.

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Among people born in 1835, Camille Saint-Saëns ranks 4. Before him are Pope Pius X, Mark Twain, and Empress Dowager Cixi. After him are Leopold II of Belgium, Cesare Lombroso, Adolf von Baeyer, Josef Stefan, Giovanni Schiaparelli, Giosuè Carducci, Andrew Carnegie, and Demetrius Vikelas. Among people deceased in 1921, Camille Saint-Saëns ranks 1. After him are Gabriel Lippmann, Enrico Caruso, Peter Kropotkin, Prince Louis of Battenberg, Nicholas I of Montenegro, Peter I of Serbia, Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Alfred Hermann Fried, Ludwig III of Bavaria, and Carl Menger.

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In France

Among people born in France, Camille Saint-Saëns ranks 139 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864), Pope Benedict XII (1280), Jean de La Fontaine (1621), Albert Schweitzer (1875), François Villon (1431), and Charles VII of France (1403). After him are Hugh Capet (940), Charles IX of France (1550), Pope Clement IV (1190), Jean Cocteau (1889), Évariste Galois (1811), and Bernard of Clairvaux (1090).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Camille Saint-Saëns ranks 6. Before him are Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), Maurice Ravel (1875), Hector Berlioz (1803), Georges Bizet (1838), and Claude Debussy (1862). After him are Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Charles Gounod (1818), Erik Satie (1866), Gabriel Fauré (1845), François Couperin (1668), and Jules Massenet (1842).

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