Guillaume balay biography of michael

Camille Saint-Saëns began piano with his great aunt, then with the composer and teacher Camille Stamaty (1811-1870). The latter urged Peter Maleden, composer, who teaches theory and composition. Saint-Saens proves to be a virtuoso: he gave his first concert in eleven years and caused a sensation with Beethoven's Third Concerto and the Concerto No. 15 K. 450 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Saint-Saens wrote plays and even his own cadenza for Mozart concerto!Alongside brilliant general studies, he entered the Conservatory at age 13 in 1848, where he studied organ with Benoist (1794-1878), composition with Halevy (1799-1862), and also receives advice from Charles Gounod (1818-1893). It leaves the Conservatory with the price of Organ in 1851. The same year, he tries the contest the Prix de Rome, but fails. In 1852, he won a composition prize nonetheless Contest Sainte-Cecile de Bordeaux for his cantata Ode to St. Cecilia. At age 18 he was appointed organist of Sai

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