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Camille Saint-Saëns More at IMDb Pro »

Date of Birth

9 October 1835, Paris, France

Date of Death

16 December 1921, Algiers, Alger, France [now Algeria]

Birth Name

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns

Mini Biography

Composer chiefly remembered for his symphonic poems -the first of that genre to be written by a Frenchman- and for his opera 'Samson et Dalila'. Notable for his pioneering efforts on behalf of French music, he was also a gifted pianist and organist, and a writer of criticism, poetry, essays, and plays. Of his concerti and symphonies, in which he adapted the virtuosity of Franz Liszt's style to French traditions of harmony and form, his 'Third Symphony' is most often performed.

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