Camille Saint-Saëns has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 26 episodes and was first played on 10 September 2015.

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and teacher.

Born in Paris on 9th October 1835, Saint-Saëns was a child prodigy. He had lessons with Camille-Marie Stamaty and Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, going on to the Paris Conservatoire in 1848, where he was taught by Fromental Halévy .

He soon came to the notice - and earned the admiration of - such eminent composers as Charles Gounod, Gioacchino Rossini, Hector Berlioz, and Franz Liszt. He was appointed organist at the Madeleine (1857-1875),…