Camille Saint-Saëns : a life /: a life. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Brian Rees.
• Other Names: Rees, Brian
• Contents: Introduction: Cypresses and Laurels -- Ch. 1. A Child of the Bourgeois Monarchy -- Ch. 2. The Conservatoire -- Revolution and Repression -- Ch. 3. The Parish Organist -- Ch. 4. The Paris Organist -- Ch. 5. An Artist's Life -- Ch. 6. Devastation, Seed Corn and Harvest -- Ch. 7. Saint-Saens's 'Agonistes' -- Ch. 8. The Traveller with Lined Paper -- Ch. 9. Collapse and Recovery -- Ch. 10. A National Musician -- Ch. 11. 'I Would Like to be Idle but Have Not the Time' -- Ch. 12. A Corsican Vendetta and Scholarly Polemics -- Ch. 13. War Service at the Keyboard -- Ch. 14. 'I Have Mounted the Acropolis Myself'.
• Publisher Details: London : Faber & Faber
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 780/.92 B; Composers -- France -- Biography; Compositeurs -- France -- Biographies; Composers; France; Biography
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780571287055; 0571287050
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.