By the late 1860s Saint-Saëns was numbered among the top few great living composers, awarded the Légion d’Honneur at only 33, befriended by the leading musicians of the day and a habitué of the salon ...

Donald Macleod looks at the French composer famous for symphonies The Carnival of the Animals and Danse Macabre. A child prodigy, he graduated from piano to organ with great success ...

Saint-Säens’ Danse Macabre on electric guitar proves it’s actually a monolithic rock instrumental ...

French composers ... Saint-Saëns, César Franck, Gabriel Fauré, Erik Satie and Charles-Marie Widor brought in fresh developments that contrasted with the long, powerful and complex works of the ...

Saint-Saëns died, full of years and malice” — while noting the French composer’s remarkably swift passage from acclaim to neglect. A fantastically fictional account of the life and times of this ...