OHS Press announces the publication of Camille Saint-Saëns: Organist-Composer, by Rollin Smith ($49.99 plus shipping).
The book provides a biographical view of Saint-Saëns as organist and composer, including chapters on the construction and settings of instruments he played (harmonium, Aeolian organ, and Cavaillé-Coll organs, among others). Within the eleven appendices are essays by and about Saint-Saëns, his recordings, specifications of organs that he played, and a thematic catalog of his works for harmonium and organ.
This second edition has been completely revised and expanded with several new chapters, 27 stoplists, a thematic catalog, and 92 illustrations, among which are all the known photographs of Saint-Saëns at the organ.
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