SKU: HL.50566023
ISBN 9781705190425. UPC: 196288126195.
Throughout his career, Camille Saint-Saens composed nearly 150 songs. In 1921, the final year of his life, he completed the Cinq Poemes de Ronsard. Along with the Trois Vieilles Chansons, composed in the same year, this collection shows Saint-Saens returning tothe poetry of the 15th and 16th centuries, a source from which Charles Gounod, Georges Bizet and Jules Massenet had already drawn.
SKU: HL.50566024
ISBN 9781705190432. UPC: 196288126201.
Throughout his career, Camille Saint-Saens composed nearly 150 songs. A short while before his death, in 1921, he bade farewell to songwriting with the delivery of Trois Vieilles Chansons. Along with the Cinq Poemes de Ronsard, composed in the same year, this final collection shows Saint-Saens returning to the poetry of the 15th and 16th centuries, a source from which Charles Gounod, Georges Bizet and Jules Massenet had already drawn.
