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Title: Musical Memories

Author: Camille Saint-Saens

Translator: Edwin Gile Rich

Release Date: August 7, 2005 [EBook #16459]

Language: English

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[Illustration: The Master, Camille Saint-Saens]

MUSICAL MEMORIES

BY
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS

TRANSLATED BY
EDWIN GILE RICH
Translator of Lafond's "_Ma Mitrailleuse_," etc.

[Illustration: (A publisher's seal, inscribed "SCIRE QVOD SCIENDVM".)]

BOSTON
SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

1919,
BY SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD

II THE OLD CONSERVATOIRE

III VICTOR HUGO

IV THE HISTORY OF AN OPERA-COMIQUE

V LOUIS GALLET

VI HISTORY AND MYTHOLOGY IN OPERA

VII ART FOR ART'S SAKE

VIII POPULAR SCIENCE AND ART

IX ANARCHY IN MUSIC

X THE ORGAN

XI JOSEPH HAYDN AND THE "SEVEN WORDS"

XII THE LISZT CENTENARY AT HEIDELBERG (1912)

XIII BERLIOZ'S REQUIEM

XIV PAULINE VIARDOT

XV ORPHEE

XVI DELSARTE

XVII SEGHERS

XVIII ROSSINI

XIX JULES MASSENET

XX MEYERBEER

XXI JACQUES OFFENBACH

XXII THEIR MAJESTIES

XXIII MUSICAL PAINTERS

ILLUSTRATIONS

The Master, Camille Saint-Saens

The Paris Opera

The First Performance of _Dejanire_

M. Saint-Saens in his Later Years

The Madeleine where M. Saint-Saens played the organ for twenty years

Hector Berlioz

Mme. Pauline Viardot

Mme. Patti

M. Jules Massenet

Meyerbeer, Composer of _Les Huguenots_

Jacques Offenbach

Ingres, the painter famous for his violin

MUSICAL MEMORIES

MUSICAL MEMORIES

CHAPTER I

MEMORIES OF MY CHILDHOOD

In bygone days I was often told that I had two mothers, and, as a matter
of fact, I did have two--the mother who gave me life and my maternal
great-aunt, Charlotte Masson. The latter came from an old family of
lawyers named Gayard and this