COMPOSER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Camille Saint-Saëns has received more than 3,090,647 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 65 in 2019). Camille Saint-Saëns is the 52nd most popular composer (down from 41st in 2019), the 179th most popular biography from France (down from 124th in 2019) and the 7th 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 52 out of 1,451. Before him are Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Aram Khachaturian, Tomaso Albinoni, and Domenico Scarlatti. After him are Antonio Salieri, Orlande de Lassus, Carl Orff, Erik Satie, Georg Philipp Telemann, and Arnold Schoenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Camille Saint-Saëns ranks 5. Before him are Mark Twain, Leopold II of Belgium, Empress Dowager Cixi, and Pope Pius X. After him are Cesare Lombroso, Adolf von Baeyer, Andrew Carnegie, César Cui, Samuel Butler, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Henryk Wieniawski. Among people deceased in 1921, Camille Saint-Saëns ranks 2. Before him is Enrico Caruso. After him are Peter Kropotkin, Gabriel Lippmann, Peter I of Serbia, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Carl Menger, Alfred Hermann Fried, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Talaat Pasha, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, and Nicholas I of Montenegro.

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In France

Among people born in France, Camille Saint-Saëns ranks 179 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Bodin (1530), Pope Urban V (1310), Annie Ernaux (1940), Louis VII of France (1120), Bernadette Soubirous (1844), and Louis VIII of France (1187). After him are Francis II of France (1544), Vilfredo Pareto (1848), Georges Seurat (1859), Carlo Buonaparte (1746), Louis Daguerre (1787), and Henri Rousseau (1844).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Camille Saint-Saëns ranks 7. Before him are Georges Bizet (1838), Claude Debussy (1862), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), Maurice Ravel (1875), Hector Berlioz (1803), and Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683). After him are Erik Satie (1866), Jules Massenet (1842), Charles Gounod (1818), Gabriel Fauré (1845), Josquin des Prez (1450), and François Couperin (1668).

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