Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3, "Organ"
Sticky Notes: The Classical Music Podcast
Joshua Weilerstein
4.9 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Saint-Saens considered his 3rd symphony his greatest work: "I have given all that I had to give. What I have done I shall never do again." Later in his life, Saint-Saens would be known as an arch-conservative, but at the time he was writing the Organ symphony, Saint-Saens was enamored with the formal and structural innovations of the music of Liszt. Today we'll explore the dualism between the piece's Romantic aspirations and Classical grounding, plus of course, the role of the organ in this Organ Symphony.
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