SAINT-SAENS, CAMILLE

Charles- Camille Saint-Saëns , born in Paris in 1835, was one of history’s most gifted musicians. His father, Jacques Joseph Victor Saint-Saëns , died a few months after the birth of his son, and his mother, an amateur artist, was left with the responsibility of rearing their child. She was assisted by her aunt, Charlotte Mason , who started teaching the boy piano before he was three—he later studied piano with Camille Stamaty and organ with Alexandre-Pierre...