Camille Saint-Saens and His World

Description

Camille Saint-Sans - perhaps the foremost French musical figure of the late nineteenth century and a composer who wrote in every musical genre, from opera and the symphony to film music - is now being rediscovered after a century of modernism overshadowed his importance. This book deconstructs the multiple realities behind the man and his music.

Jann Pasler is professor of music at the University of California, San Diego. Her books include "Writing through Music: Essays on Music, Culture, and Politics" and "Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France".

"This study of a versatile, tasteful and often endearing composer, and a serious, playful and sometimes prickly man, may be thoroughly recommended."--Classical Music Magazine "This compilation of masterful scholarship is likely to become a preeminent source for information on Saint-Saens."--Choice "Jann Pasler's edited collection thus offers a significant contribution to Saint-Saens studies, and to the field of nineteenth- and early twentieth century French music as a whole."--Helen Abbott, French Studies