FINE ARTS OPERA COMPOSER

Slides:



Advertisements
Similar presentations
Ludwig von Beethoven Ludwig von Beethoven was born in Bonn, Germany in He came up with new, thrilling and expressive ways of writing music that changed.
Advertisements

Born in Germany in 1685 Died in Bach came from a family of musicians with more than 70 of his relatives being composers, musicians, or choirmasters.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart By Karen Bugeja. General information about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria on the.
Camille Saint-Saens BORN: October 9 th DIED: December 16 th
Camille Saint-Saëns Miss Lessman’s Class 9 th Grade Music Literature Class.
Ludwig van Beethoven: His Life and Music By Joy Agre His Life His Music Q&A Teacher’s Page.
THE AMAZING Ludwig van beethoven
Monet et les Jardins de Giverny By Emma Snow.  Birth date: November 14 th, 1840  Birth Place: Paris, France  Birth Name: Oscar-Claude Monet Information.
ARTIST ENSEMBLE COMPOSERS. GEORGES BIZET -Born in Paris, France on October 25, Father - singing teacher and hairdresser/wigmaker. Mother – accomplished.
By: Jackson Lund.  Born January 27, 1756 in Salzburg Austria  Classical Songwriter and composer  Mother Anne Maria Pertl  Father Johann George Leopold.
THE CLASSICAL Joseph Haydn Born in tiny Austrian village of Rohrau
Music 1010 Semester Presentation by Sydney Johnson.
The French famous composers Comenius Berlioz Hector Berlioz was born on December 11th 1803 in Côte-Saint- André. At the age of 10, he chad.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685– 1750) Baroque Era Composer.
Quote: Albert Einstein once said that while Beethoven created his music, Mozart's "was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe,
Chelsea Meyers German 3 Mr. Manoff German 3 honors Cultural Project Ludwig van Beethoven.
Ludwig Van Beethoven By: Shauna Anderson.
Semester Project Music 1010 Annette Redmond.  Ludwig Van Beethoven was born December 17 th 1771 in Bonn, Germany.  His father was Johann Van Beethoven.
Composer of the Month-October
What was going on in the world from During this time, medical vaccination was discovered and so was electricity by Benjamin Franklin. The first.
LO: To learn about the Classical period of music. To learn about famous composers from this era. Success Criteria: To identify where the Classical period.
Claude Monet. Who was Claude Monet? Claude Monet was a French painter who was one of the greatest painters of the impressionist times. Soft wonderful.
By Danny Grasing. Sheldon Silverstein was born September 25 th Shel Silverstein began writing when he was 12 years old. He wasn’t athletic so he.
Module Three Music Reading. Learn some music instruments and Vocabulary related to music Read the passages and learn some key words and phrases. Be able.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Made by Akhmedova Margarita 9 “D”
The Early Life of Theodore Roosevelt
Chapter 16 Romantic Songs.
ESSENTIAL WORDS.
Made by Akhmedova Margarita 9 “D”
Classical Period
Hector Berlioz
Claude Monet.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
MÓDULO October 2011.
Unit 3 Our Hobbies Topic 2 What sweet music ! Section C.
Great Classical Composer
pRESENTATion «Beethoven»
George Friedrich Handel
Henry Purcell.
Pablo Picasso ( ) Born in Malagia, Spain on October 25th, 1881.
Johann Sebastian Bach BORN ON March 21, 1685 – July 28, 1750 in Leipzip HIS EARLY YEARS.
Ludwig Van Beethoven.
Ludwig Van Beethoven “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.” “What you are, you are by accident.
Johann Sebastian Bach. Johann Sebastian Bach A Life in Germany James Walters September 2015 Johann Sebastian Bach A Life in Germany James Walters September.
Beethoven By Lucy and Eden.
And why did he have 6 wives?
WASSILY KANDINSKY.
Ludwig van Beethoven: His Life and Music
BEETHOVEN By Maisie and Molly.
Claude Debussy Composer number 3.
The life and experiences
Frédéric François Chopin
Who was Edgar Allan Poe? I’m just a Poe boy… Research and create a quick biography of Poe. (birthplace, birthdate, death, parents, siblings, lovers,
Complete the text about Mozart’s childhood using:
Mary Shelley
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?.
How can music tell a story?
Frédéric François Chopin
Charles Ives American Composer.
Ludwig Van Beethoven “Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.”
“Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone in the whole world.” Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan
And why did he have 6 wives?
Classical Period
Edgar Allan Poe
She was born 24th May 1819 At Kensington Palace London
Frederic Chopin (1810 – 1849).
One of the greatest masters of Romantic music
Ludwig van Beethoven.
Presentation transcript:

FINE ARTS OPERA COMPOSER Camille Saint-Saëns FINE ARTS OPERA COMPOSER

Saint-Saëns was born in 1835 in Paris, France, eight years after Ludwig van Beethoven died. His birthday was October 9th. He was christened Charles-Camille. His father was very ill with tuberculosis when he was born. When the baby Charles-Camille was three months old, his father died. After his father died, his great-aunt Charlotte came to live with him and his mother, Clémence. His great-aunt started teaching him to play the piano and soon discovered that he was a very clever little boy indeed.

He had 'perfect pitch' which meant that he could sing in tune and reproduce musical sounds perfectly. By the age of two he was learning to play the piano. By the time he was three years old he was able to read and write as well. He was interested in many subjects like astronomy, history, painting and animal welfare and was very good at math. His made his first public concert appearance when he was five years old. He accompanied a Beethoven violin sonata. By the time he was ten years old he could play all of Beethoven's piano sonatas by heart, and there were 32 of them. He made friends with and won the respect and admiration of well known composers of his time such as Schumann, Berlioz, Rossini, Gounod, and others.

He made friends with and won the respect and admiration of well known composers of his time such as Schumann, Berlioz, Rossini, Gounod, and others. He became organist at some well known and prominent churches like the 'Church of Saint-Merry' in 1853 and 'La Madeleine' in 1857 where he stayed for nearly twenty years. It was a very prestigious position and won him a lot of recognition. He was thought by many at the time to be the greatest organist in the world. In 1874 he wrote 'Danse Macabre' and four years later, in 1878, he wrote Samson et Dalila.

The next year, when he was 39 years old, he married 19- year-old Marie-Laure Truffot. They had two sons but sadly both of them died within a few weeks of each other, one from an illness and the other in a terrible accident. The little boy fell out of a 4th floor window. Saint-Saëns blamed his wife for not preventing this and they were no longer able to get along. He left her in 1881. He got closer to his mother, who had never much liked Marie-Laure, and after separating from her he also developed a stronger friendship with Gabriel Fauré and his family, especially enjoying the company of the Fauré children. They had a lot in common as Gabriel Fauré was also a French pianist, organist and composer.

A few years later in 1886, while they were on holidays, Saint-Saëns wrote 'The Carnival of the Animals' to amuse his family and friends. Saint-Saens had a very close relationship with his mother and when she died in 1888, he became very depressed even to the point of thinking about ending his own life. He decided that he needed to completely change his life and get away from everything that reminded him of his sorrows. He left France and travelled around the world. He seemed to have had a great fondness for the African continent and wrote a colourful piece of music which he called 'Africa' as well as his Piano Concerto No. 5, the "Egyptian." He died of pneumonia on 16 December 1921 at the Hôtel de l'Oasis in Algiers. His body was sent back to France and a state funeral was held for him at 'La Madeleine' where he was organist many years earlier. He was 86 years old and had spent some 80 years of his life creating a great variety of musical compositions.