Camille SAINT-SAËNS

Family tree of Camille SAINT-SAËNS

Composer, Singer & Musician

FrenchBorn Charles Camille SAINT-SAËNS

French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist

Born on October 9, 1835 in Paris , France

Died on December 16, 1921 in Alger , Algeria

Family tree

Report an error

Report an error

This form allows you to report an error or to submit additional information about this family tree: Camille SAINT-SAËNS (1835)

Sources : astridn , ccleret1

More information

Saint-Saëns was born in Paris, France, on 9 October 1835. His father, a government clerk, died three months after his birth. He was raised by his mother, Clémence, with the assistance of her aunt, Charlotte Masson, who moved in. Masson introduced Saint-Saëns to the piano, and began giving him lessons on the instrument. At about this time, age two, Saint-Saëns was found to possess perfect pitch. His first composition, a little piece for the piano dated 22 March 1839, is now kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Saint-Saëns's precocity was not limited to music. He learned to read and ...   Saint-Saëns was born in Paris, France, on 9 October 1835. His father, a government clerk, died three months after his birth. He was raised by his mother, Clémence, with the assistance of her aunt, Charlotte Masson, who moved in. Masson introduced Saint-Saëns to the piano, and began giving him lessons on the instrument. At about this time, age two, Saint-Saëns was found to possess perfect pitch. His first composition, a little piece for the piano dated 22 March 1839, is now kept in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Saint-Saëns's precocity was not limited to music. He learned to read and write by the age of three, and had some mastery of Latin by the age of seven.



© Copyright Wikipédia authors - This article is under licence CC BY-SA 3.0

  

Geographical origins

The map below shows the places where the ancestors of the famous person lived.

Loading... An error has occured while loading the map.

In the same topic