" The Elephant " from Camille Saint-Saëns ' The Carnival of the Animals is a satirical portrait of the double bass, and American virtuoso Gary Karr made his televised debut playing " The Swan " ( originally written for the cello ) with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

To give an example: he applied for membership of the Académie Française twice, leaving no doubt in the application letter that the board of that organisation ( presided by Camille Saint-Saëns ) as much as owed him such membership.

This film used leading actors from the Comédie-Française, and had a special accompanying score written by Camille Saint-Saëns.

They also underpin the fact that Rossini himself was an outstanding pianist whose playing attracted high praise from people such as Franz Liszt, Sigismond Thalberg, Camille Saint-Saëns and Louis Diémer.

* Hélène ( opera ), a 1904 poème lyrique or opera in one act by composer Camille Saint-Saëns

French composers of motets included Camille Saint-Saëns, and César Franck.

Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite The Carnival of the Animals, which are sometimes recited when the work is performed.

* 1835 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer ( d. 1921 )

* Camille Saint-Saëns

However, the first designated full blown scores were composed earlier, in 1908, by Camille Saint-Saëns, for The Assassination of the Duke of Guise, and by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, for Stenka Razin.

* Camille Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals ( 1886 ), 12th movement ( Fossiles ) quotes the tune

* December 16 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer ( born 1835 )

** Camille Saint-Saëns ' composition Danse Macabre receives its première.

* October 9 – Camille Saint-Saëns, French composer ( d. 1921 )

In 1908, Camille Saint-Saëns composed the first music specifically for use in a motion picture ( L ' assasinat du duc de Guise ), and releasing recordings of songs used in films became prevalent in the 1930s.

* French — Saint-Saëns, Camille: Pierrot the Astronomer ( 1907 ; ballet ).

The first use of a European orchestral xylophone was in Camille Saint-Saëns ' " Danse Macabre ", in 1874.

The ballet, created in 1905, is danced to Le cygne from The Carnival of the Animals by Camille Saint-Saëns.

The fact that as early as the 1880s composers such as Richard Strauss ( in his tone poems " Don Juan " and " Death and Transfiguration ") as well as Camille Saint-Saëns ( Symphony No. 3 " Organ ") asked string players to perform certain passages " without expression " or " without nuance " strongly suggests the general use of vibrato within the orchestra as a matter of course.

* Phaéton, a symphonic poem by Camille Saint-Saëns

Among leading musical figures at the premiere were Jules Massenet, Camille Saint-Saëns and Charles Gounod.

Other 19th-century French composers like Meyerbeer, Hector Berlioz, Camille Saint-Saëns, Georges Bizet and Jules Massenet wrote attractive parts for baritones, too.

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* One of the most famous symphonic poems in a mythological series composed by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns in the 1870s is titled Le Rouet d ' Omphale, or The Spinning Wheel Of Omphale, the rouet being a spinning wheel that the queen and her maidens used — in this version of the myth, it was Delphic Apollo who condemned the hero to serve the Lydian queen disguised as a woman.

File: WLA metmuseum Camille Monet on a Garden Bench by Claude Monet. jpg | Camille Monet on a Garden Bench, 1873, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

After her husband ( Ernest Hoschedé ) became bankrupt, and left in 1878 for Belgium, and after the death of Camille Monet in September 1879, and while Monet continued to live in the house in Vétheuil ; Alice Hoschedé ( 1844-1911 ), helped Monet to raise his two sons, Jean and Michel, by taking them to Paris to live alongside her own six children.

His other paintings during that period were influenced by Camille Corot, who tutored him.

File: Hay Harvest at Éragny by Camille Pissarro 1901. png | Hay Harvest at Éragny, 1901, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario

* BBC Your Paintings: works by Camille Pissarro in public British collections

* www. camille-pissarro. org 1097 works by Camille Pissarro and more

Camille Claudel, directed by newcomer Bruno Nuytten and starring Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu, was a major commercial success in 1988, earning Adjani, who was also the film's co-producer, a César Award for best actress.

They were soon joined by Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne, and Armand Guillaumin.

* Narrated " Carnival of the Animals " music by Camille St Saëns with the Nash Ensemble-Wigmore Hall, 1999

In 1958, during the last months of President Camille Chamoun's term, an insurrection broke out, and 5, 000 United States Marines were briefly dispatched to Beirut on July 15 in response to an appeal by the government.

* Chasseneuil-du-Poitou and not Casseuil by Camille Jullian

Camille Paglia, who called the poem " the greatest poem of the twentieth century ," and said " all human beings, like Leda, are caught up moment by moment in the ' white rush ' of experience.

* Musée de Tessé, the fine arts museum of the city, displaying painting ( including artworks by Philippe de Champaigne, Charles Le Brun, François Boucher, John Constable, Ingres, Théodore Géricault and Camille Corot ) and archaeological collections as well as decorative arts.

French Impressionist painters such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir advocated en plein air painting, and much of their work was done outdoors, in the diffuse light provided by a large white umbrella.

* Le fils de l ’ étoile ( 1903 ), a French opera by Camille Erlanger ( mus.

A plan for the rebuilding of the downtown area drawn up by the local architect Camille Lefèvre was adopted even before the end of the war.

The primary components of the Christian front were the Maronite Phalangists loyal to Bachir Gemayel and the Tigers Militia — which was led by Dany Chamoun, a son of former President Camille Chamoun.

The Zambaccian Museum, which is situated in the former home of art collector Krikor H. Zambaccian contains works by many well-known Romanian artists as well as international artists such as Paul Cézanne, Eugène Delacroix, Henri Matisse, Camille Pissarro and Pablo Picasso.