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Camille Saint-Saëns was something of the anomaly among France composers from the nineteenth hundred years for the reason that he wrote in practically all genres, including opera, symphonies, concertos, music, sacred and secular choral music, single piano, and chamber music. He was generally not really a pioneer, though he do …

In his lifetime, Eugène Gigout was an improved known organist than composer. Certainly, rather than least because he kept the esteemed organist post at Saint-Austin Cathedral in Paris from 1863 until his loss of life in 1925, a period of 62 years! Gigout composed a big body of music for …