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Camille Saint-Saëns

1835 - 1921

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Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (UK: , US: , French: [ʃaʁl kamij sɛ̃ sɑ̃(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 2,934,262 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 64 in 2019). Camille Saint-Saëns is the 41st most popular composer (down from 38th in 2019), the 124th most popular biography from France (down from 103rd 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 41 out of 1,216. Before him are Richard Strauss, Sergei Prokofiev, Johann Strauss I, Modest Mussorgsky, Jean Sibelius, and Béla Bartók. After him are Guido of Arezzo, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Gaetano Donizetti, Tomaso Albinoni, Jean-Baptiste Lully, and Carl Maria von Weber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Camille Saint-Saëns ranks 4. Before him are Mark Twain, Pope Pius X, and Empress Dowager Cixi. After him are Leopold II of Belgium, Cesare Lombroso, Adolf von Baeyer, Andrew Carnegie, César Cui, Henryk Wieniawski, Giovanni Schiaparelli, and Samuel Butler. Among people deceased in 1921, Camille Saint-Saëns ranks 1. After him are Enrico Caruso, Peter Kropotkin, Peter I of Serbia, Gabriel Lippmann, Ludwig III of Bavaria, Alfred Hermann Fried, Carl Menger, John Boyd Dunlop, Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Talaat Pasha, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.

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In France

Among people born in France, Camille Saint-Saëns ranks 124 out of 6,011. Before him are Jacques Lacan (1901), François Rabelais (1494), Charles XIV John of Sweden (1763), Hugh Capet (940), Jacques Chirac (1932), and Louis XVIII of France (1755). After him are Henri Poincaré (1854), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Luc Montagnier (1932), Charles VI of France (1368), François Villon (1431), and Roman Polanski (1933).

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Among COMPOSERS In France

Among composers born in France, Camille Saint-Saëns ranks 6. Before him are Georges Bizet (1838), Claude Debussy (1862), Hector Berlioz (1803), Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520), and Maurice Ravel (1875). After him are Erik Satie (1866), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Charles Gounod (1818), Josquin des Prez (1450), Jules Massenet (1842), and Gabriel Fauré (1845).

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