
| Product Code: | 979-0-570-81448-0 |
| ISMN: | 979-0-570-81448-0 |
| Publishers Number: | C448D |
| Difficulty: | Grade 8 |
| Published date:: | 20240115 |
| Language: | English |
| Page count: | 28 |
| Condition: | New |
Saint-Saëns was enthusiastic for the most modern music of his time, particularly that of Schumann, Liszt, and Wagner. His own compositions were generally within a conventional classical tradition, but he was also a scholar of musical history and remained committed to the structures worked out by earlier French composers. This sometimes brought him into conflict with composers of the impressionist and expressionist schools of music in his later years.
He held only one teaching post at the École de Musique Classique et Religieuse in Paris and remained there for less than five years. However, it was an important institution in the development of French music, with his students including Gabriel Fauré1. Saint-Saëns’s influence on later composers is widely recognized, and he is revered as a genius by many.
Danse Macabre Op. 40 by Saint-Saens started life in 1874 as a tone poem scored for violin and orchestra which vividly describes a poem by…
This arrangement for violin and piano was made by Saint-Saens himself in 1877.
Previous published by European Music Archive.
Former catalogue number: EMA116.
R.R.P 10.5
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