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Composer of the Week

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An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)

Composer of the Week: Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921): Episode 4: A New Century

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Episode 4: A New Century

Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)

A New Century

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), A New Century

Donald Macleod on how Saint-Saens made history with one of the first original film scores.

Donald Macleod discusses how in 1908 Saint-Saens made history with one of the first-ever original film scores, written for the silent movie The Assassination of the Duke of Guise.

As the new century dawns, Saint-Saëns composes one of the first-ever original film scores.

Camille Saint-Saëns reached the pinnacle of his career in 1886, when both his famous "Carnival of the Animals" and his "Organ" Symphony were first performed. He was 51 ? and yet he'd live on for a further three-and-a-half decades, well into the age of Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Poulenc. His late works have often been unfairly neglected ? seen as 'out of time' in a thrusting new century. This week, Donald Macleod explores the charming and eccentric variety of pieces Saint-Saëns left behind from the last decades of his life.

The "Exposition Universelle", or World's Fair, in Paris in 1900 marked an exciting, thrusting new century ? one of electricity, innovation in art and music, and new ideas. But the 65-year-old Saint-Saëns was no relic. In 1908 he made history with one of the first ever original film scores ? written for the silent movie, "The Assassination of the Duke of Guise". We'll hear that pioneering work, as well as a very rare cantata composed to mark the new century, before one of the composer's most beloved concertante works: his Second Cello Concerto, performed by Steven Isserlis.

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Donald Macleod explores the charming and eccentric variety of later works by Saint-Saens

Donald Macleod explores the charming and eccentric variety of later works by Camille Saint-Saens

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