Cycle
Camille Saint-Saëns, the one-man band

Romantic quintets

Concert Chamber Music
Although the piano quintet is generally associated with the German Romantic school (from Schumann to Brahms), Camille Saint-Saëns’s career refutes this prejudice. As a composer, he delivered the genre’s first important milestone in France in 1855, when he was only twenty years old. As head of the Société Nationale de Musique, he then opened up a space for his contemporaries to publicly perform this type of work, which until then had remained confined to the discretion of the salons. Finally, as a performer, he devoted his pianistic virtuosity to the most ambitious pieces of his time, such as César Franck’s Quintet, which he premiered in 1880.

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Dates

Sat 26 September 2020
19.30
Scuola Grande San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice

Performers

QUATUOR AROD
David Kadouch piano

Programme

Camille SAINT-SAËNS
Quintette avec piano en la mineur, op. 14
César FRANCK
Quintette avec piano en fa mineur, FWV 7
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