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The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, was completed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1886 at the peak of his artistic career. [1] It is popularly known as the Organ Symphony, since, unusually for a late-Romantic symphony, two of the four sections use the pipe organ.
- 1886
- 2 (4)
- To the memory of Franz Liszt
- C minor
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Feb 25, 2014 · The slow movement's Poco adagio does, crucially, introduce the gentle, lowering presence of the organ as a key character in the work's drama, and it also acts as a moment of visionary...
Organ Symphony, orchestral work by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, notable especially for its grand use of an organ in the final movement. The work premiered on May 19, 1886, in London, where Saint-Saëns was engaged in a concert tour, and it became one of the first widely praised symphonies by.
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Symphony No. 3, “Organ Symphony”. Born in 1835, when the Romantic era was still young, the spectacularly gifted Camille Saint-Saëns has been hailed as the greatest of all classical music prodigies, outpacing even Mozart and Mendelssohn. In the Organ Symphony, Saint-Saëns combines his astounding facility for melodic invention and sonic ...
Feb 17, 2021 · Saint-Saëns set the Symphony in two large blocks which encompass and blur together the traditional four movements we would expect. The opening Adagio-Allegro moderato breaks off without a recapitulation, flowing into the serene Poco adagio.
