Saint-Saens Symphony No. 3, "Organ"
Saint-Saens considered his 3rd symphony his greatest work: \u201cI have given all that I had to give. What I have done I shall never do again.\u201d Later in his life, Saint-Saens would be known as an arch-conservative, but at the time he was writing the Organ symphony, Saint-Saens was enamored with the formal and structural innovations of the music of Liszt. Today we\u2019ll explore the dualism between the piece\u2019s Romantic aspirations and Classical grounding, plus of course, the role of the organ in this Organ Symphony.