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Camille Saint-Saens - Genius French composer of the Romantic Era - Part 1

Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns ( 1835 – 1921) Calimille Saint-Saens is my favorite French composer of The Romantic Era. However my discovery about him was late, I discovered about him since I started watching figure skating. Even though I had heard his famous music “ The Swan “ before, I didn’t know Saint Saens was the composer of this beautiful music. I had thought this music was by Tchaikovsky , and that it was a part of Tchaikovsky’s famous ballet music “ Swan Lake “. I don’t know why I got such an idea and had been believing that without checking who is the composer of “ The Swan “. Maybe I was making my own original story in my mind about “The Swan“. The first time I discovered about Saint-Saens was since I watched Johnny Weir ’s 2004 - 2005 short program performance “ Rondo Capriccioso “ , this program is one of my top favorites of his performances ( 2004 TEB France) and I really loved the music, so I finally checked the composer of the mu...