Camille Saint-Saes: A Life.(Review)

Contemporary Review | August 1, 1999| | Copyright

Brian Rees. Chatto & Windus. [pounds]30.00. 485 pages. ISBN 1-85619-773-5.

I think it was Brahms who wrote that Saint-Saens was the greatest composer who ever lived who wasn't a genius. This wry saying has a certain ring of credibility to it. Camille Saint-Saens will never achieve the cult following of Mozart, Beethoven or Chopin, nor will he ever inspire frenzied partisan passions as do Wagner and Mahler. His music inspires no more than uncontroversial pleasure and enjoyment, rather like Vivaldi, Mendelssohn and Schumann. Added to the fact that his life was a ...

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