October 9 - Camille Saint-Saëns (The Musical Birthday Series, 5th Annual Cycle)

Previous posts for October 9th are here: Camille Saint-Saëns (2019), John Lennon; Sean Ono Lennon; Camille Saint-Saëns (2020), Einojuhani Rautavaara (2021), and Alfons Kontarsky (2022)

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Camille Saint-Saëns (9 October 1835 – 16 December 1921) was a prominent French composer, pianist, conductor, and organist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Easy Does It

Part of the problem with Saint-Saëns is that he composed with such facility. “I produce music as an apple tree produces apples,” he once said. – adapted from Stephen Moss, “Saint-Saëns: unfashionable, underrated – and overdue for reappraisal,” The Guardian (2 August 2021)

Camille Saint-Saëns was blithe and facile,

Notes for him were not a hassle,

Writing with innate facility

Works with instant likeability;

Faultless, in a word fastidious,

Never ever gauche or hideous.

But Reputation works mysteriously,

And there are few who take him seriously.

 

 

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