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• TITLE: Traditional Fusion—The Piano Etude of Charles Camille Saint-Saëns (OP.111)

  AUTHORS: Yushuai Li

  KEYWORDS: Practice Song, Saint-Saëns, Musical Style, Piano Performance, Music Characteristics

  JOURNAL NAME: Open Access Library Journal, Vol.11 No.5, May 30, 2024

  ABSTRACT: Charles Camille San-San is the most outstanding musician, pianist, and organic pianist in France in the late 19th century. Saint-Saëns created a large number of symphony, opera, violin, and piano works. Persons, Saint-Saëns has also made important contributions to the development of the French school. Saint-Saëns created and published three piano etudes in his life, namely OP.52, OP.111, and OP.135 made for the left hand. The song reflects Saint-Saëns’s superb composition skills and personal style. This article starts with the environmental background and music creation concept of Saint-Saëns, and selects piano etude OP.111 as the object. It mainly explains the three major aspects of the historical environment, music characteristics, and performance interpretation.