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Saint-Saens

noun

French pianist and composer (1835-1921). Synonym: Charles Camille Saint-Saens.

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... School for Music in Berlin as the protege of a rich banker of Koenigsberg. There he studied under Bargeil and Rudorff. In 1884 he toured America together with Ovide Musin, the violin virtuoso. Two years later he became the pupil of Saint-Saens in Paris. In 1887 and 1888 he toured France and visited London, where he received a command to appear at the British Court. In 1890 he returned to America and made this country his home for ten years, appearing frequently in concert and engaging ...

— Great Pianists on Piano Playing • James Francis Cooke

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... lacked that intuitive understanding and sympathy which is the sine qua non of a good accompanist. Diana, accustomed to the trained perfection of Olga Lermontof, found herself considerably handicapped, and her rendering of the song in question, Saint-Saens' Amour, viens aider, left a good deal to be desired in consequence—a fact of which no one was more conscious ...

— The Splendid Folly • Margaret Pedler

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Words linked to "Saint-Saens" : pianist, Charles Camille Saint-Saens, piano player, composer