Camille Saint-Saëns (1 янв 1835 г. – 1 янв 1921 г.)
Описание:
a French composer, organist, conductor and pianist of the Romantic era. He was the head of the Ars Gallica music society, of which Franck was a part. The society formed after the Germans defeated the French in 1871.
Saint-Saëns’s Organ Symphony bears hallmarks of Liszt: thematic transformation, organ in a symphonic work, use of the Dies irae chant to invoke death.