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Camille Saint-Saëns
France
09.10.1835
16.12.1921
- Cello Concerto No. 1 A minor op. 33
- Piano Concerto No. 5 F major op. 103 "The Egyptian"
- Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso op. 28
- Samson and Delilah Op. 47
- Symphony No. 3 C minor op. 78 "Organ Symphony"
- Violin Concerto No. 3 B minor op. 61
- Danse Macabre op. 40
- The Carnival of the Animals
- Piano Concerto No. 2 G minor op. 22
- Allegro appassionato op. 43
- Fantaisie for Violin and Harp op. 124
- Havanaise op. 83
- Frédégonde
- Bassoon Sonata in G major, Op. 168
- Odelette op.162
- Sarabande et Rigaudon op. 93
- Suite pour orchestre op. 49
- Suite algérienne op. 60
- Une Nuit à Lisbonne op. 63
- Caprice andalous op. 122
- Rapsodie d’Auvergne op. 73
- Cello concerto D minor op. 119
- La Jeunesse d’Hercule op. 42
- Phaёton op. 39
- The Spinning Wheel of Omphale op. 31
- Piano concerto No. 3 E-flat major op. 29
- Symphony No. 1 E-flat major op. 2
- Piano concerto No. 4 C minor op. 44
- Christmas Oratorio
- String Quartet No. 1 op. 112
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Popular composers
- Antonín Dvořák
- Béla Bartók
- Claude Debussy
- Dmitri Schostakowitsch
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- Franz Liszt
- Franz Schubert
- Frédéric Chopin
- Iannis Xenakis
- Igor Strawinsky
- Jean Sibelius
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Johannes Brahms
- Joseph Haydn
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Pjotr Tschaikowsky
- Richard Strauss
- Robert Schumann
- Sergei Prokofjew
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Popular compositions
- Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988
- Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2 Sz 112
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 F major op. 68 "Pastoral Symphony"
- Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 D minor op.125
- Boito
- Britten: Billy Budd
- Gershwin: Piano Concerto F major
- Gubaidulina: String Quartet No. 1
- Korngold: The Miracle of Heliane, op. 20
- Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 E-flat Major
- Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Octet in E-flat major op. 20
- Mozart: Requiem Mass D minor KV 626
- Mozart: Symphony No. 41 C major K. 551, "Jupiter"
- Mozart: The Magic Flute K. 620
- Mussorgsky: Khovanshchina
- Offenbach: Overture from "La vie parisienne"
- Puccini
- Schnittke
- Strawinsky
- Verdi
Popular conductors
- Andrés Orozco-Estrada
- Antonio Pappano
- Claudio Abbado
- Daniel Barenboim
- Dima Slobodeniouk
- François-Xavier Roth
- Hannu Lintu
- John Eliot Gardiner
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste
- Leonard Bernstein
- Mariss Jansons
- Matthias Pintscher
- Nikolaus Harnoncourt
- Paavo Järvi
- Philippe Herreweghe
- Pierre Boulez
- Riccardo Chailly
- Simon Rattle
- Ton Koopman
- Valery Gergiev
Popular soloists
- András Schiff
- Bernarda Fink
- Boris Giltburg
- Christa Ludwig
- Damien Guillon
- Daniel Barenboim
- Fazıl Say
- Gidon Kremer
- Isabelle Faust
- Janine Jansen
- Jean-Guihen Queyras
- Jewgeni Kissin
- Juan Diego Flórez
- Khatia Buniatishvili
- Martha Argerich
- Mstislaw Rostropowitsch
- Patricia Kopatchinskaja
- Renaud Capuçon
- Sol Gabetta
- Yuja Wang
Popular orchestras
- Berlin Philharmonic
- Ensemble intercontemporain
- France Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Frankfurt Radio Symphony
- Freiburger Barockorchester
- French National Orchestra
- Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
- Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
- London Symphony Orchestra
- Lucerne Festival Orchestra
- Orchestre de Paris
- Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia
- Philharmonia Orchestra
- Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
- Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
- Staatskapelle Berlin
- SWR Symphonieorchester
- Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
- WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln
- Wiener Philharmoniker