Thursday, October 18, 2012

Composer Spotlight - Camille Saint Saens

picture from wikipedia

Camille Saint Saens is a composer (a person who writes music)
He was born in France. (check out cia factbook)
When he was a child he played the piano and he loved to write his own songs.

When he turned 13 years old he went to a conservatory (a special school) to learn more about music. While he was there he learned to play the organ and people say that he was the best in the world!

He wrote a lot of music for the orchestra. 
In class we are learning about a song he wrote called Danse Macabre. (you can hear the song on wikipedia.) It begins very soft and low, but the sound builds and gets louder and faster. It is a great piece of music!

Camille Saint Saens once said, " I live in music like a fish lives in water." What do you think he meant by that?


33 comments:

  1. hello i liked thyat it was so good ok i liked it so much it was beautifal

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  2. this was the best and sad bute it was ok

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  3. he meant when fish live in water thay are happy when they are out of it then they die thats what would happen to him if he cant play music

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  4. I think he meant if he cant make music hes ganna die

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  5. i think it meant that if he did not have music he would die like a fish on shore.

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  6. he mean that a fish needs water if they don`t have water they will die so he means that if he can`t have music he`ll die

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  7. I think he ment that if he cant live without music like fish cant live without water.

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  8. He ment if he douse not have music he will fill like a fish with no water because he live with music.

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  9. He ment he lives in music and he will die with out it

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  10. i think it was really liked it ,i also think that he meant by he is going to die by music of his courge. he is a really great instrument player.

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  11. i think he meant he is connected to music like fish are connected to water

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  12. I think he meant like a fish can't live without water so I think he means he can't live without music.

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  13. he said like fish in water

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  14. I think he meant that music is his life and lives in it like a fish lives in water.

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  15. I think that it means that he can't live without music, just like a fish can't live in water.


    from,
    Elijah

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  16. He means he needs music to live like fish need water to live.

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  17. He means that he that he can not live with music.

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  18. what he meant wus he can die with music like fish needs water.

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  19. It means he has to live with music like a fish can't live with out water.

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  20. i they mean like he'll die with out music

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  21. I like it is a cool post

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  22. when he said he has to live whith music like a fish needs water he means that he can not live whith uot it becoase a fish will die out water so he can not live whith uot water i cant eather

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  23. i like it so much.

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  24. mr.s taylor loves his songs

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  25. when Camille Saint Saens side i love music like a fish live in water he meant that a fish meed water to live and he meed music to live

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  26. What Camille Saint Saen meant by music lives in me like a fish live in water is that music is his life if he don't do any more music he got nothing eles to do. And I just puting this out my dad os moving next week and I'm sooooo happy I put 3 p's that's how exc. I am!!!

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  27. it means that he can not live with out music like a fish can not live with out water.

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  28. intresting by jillian peterson

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  29. victoria in 4th gradeNovember 10, 2012 at 4:17 PM

    i like that hes so interesting dont you think in cool right!!!!!

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  30. i like the newq blog that u made

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