Beyond the Conceits of the Avant-Garde: Saint-Saëns, Romain Rolland, and the Musical Culture of the Nineteenth Century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments and Permissions viii
4. Introduction: Deconstructing Saint-Saëns xi
5. PART I SAINT-SAËNS THE PERSON
6. Saint-Saëns in (Semi-)Private 1
7. Saint-Saëns, the Playful 8
8. Inspired by the Skies? Saint-Saëns, Amateur Astronomer 12
9. Changes on the Moon 17
10. Business and Politics, with Humor: Saint-Saëns and Auguste Durand 26
11. Rivals and Friends: Saint-Saëns, Massenet, and Thaïs 33
12. Massenet–Saint-Saëns Correspondence 40
13. Saint-Saëns and Lecocq: An Unwavering Friendship 48
14. PART II SAINT-SAËNS THE MUSICIAN
15. Saint-Saëns and the Performer’s Prestige 55
16. Le Maître and the “Strange Woman,” Marie Jaëll: Two Virtuoso-Composers in Resonance 85
17. Saint-Saëns’s Improvisations on the Organ (1862) 102
18. Providing Direction for French Music: Saint-Saëns and the Société Nationale 109
19. Saint-Saëns as President of the Société des Compositeurs (1887–1891) 118
20. Saint-Saëns at the Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris (1903–1904) 125
21. PART III SAINT-SAËNS THE GLOBETROTTER
22. Saint-Saëns: The Traveling Musician 133
23. Saint-Saëns in Germany 142
24. Saint-Saëns in England: His Organ Symphony 161
25. Analytical and Historical Programme for His New Symphony in C Minor and Major 167
26. Saint-Saëns, “Algerian by Adoption” 173
27. Friendship and Music in Indochina 184
28. Saint-Saëns in New York 191
29. Saint-Saëns and Latin America 201
30. PART IV SAINT-SAËNS, AESTHETICS PAST AND PRESENT
31. What’s in a Song? Camille Saint-Saëns’s Mélodies 209
32. Saint-Saëns and the Ancient World: From Africa to Greece 232
33. Saint-Saëns, Writer 260
34. Saint-Saëns and Rameau’s Keyboard Music 266
35. Preface, Rameau’s Pièces de Clavecin (Durand, 1895) 271
36. Lyres and Citharas of Antiquity 275
37. Ancient Lyres and Citharas From La Revue de l’art ancien et moderne (1903) 280
38. Saint-Saëns and d’Indy in Dialogue 287
39. PART V SAINT-SAËNS IN THE THE 20TH CENTURY
40. Saint-Saëns’s Advocacy of Music Education in Elementary School 303
41. Report of M. Saint-Saëns 309
42. Saint-Saëns and the Future of Music 312
43. Musical Evolution, From Le Ménestrel, 24 June 1906 318
44. The Fox in the Henhouse, or Saint-Saëns at the SMI 324
45. Saint-Saëns, Ravel, and Their Piano Concertos: Sounding Out a Legacy 334
46. Saint-Saëns and Silent Film / Sound Film and Saint-Saëns 357
47. Beyond the Conceits of the Avant-Garde: Saint-Saëns, Romain Rolland, and the Musical Culture of the Nineteenth Century 370
48. Index 405
49. Notes on the Contributors 420