Camille Saint-Saëns: A Life

by Brian Rees

Camille Saint-Saens began as a child prodigy and was acclaimed in his lifetime as the incarnation of French genius. This book places his long and controversial career in a turbulent period when music, no less than politics, was undergoing sensational and often stormy change.

Genres: Nonfiction, Music, Biography

512 pages, Paperback

First published February 25, 1999