Camille Saint-Saëns
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Born in Paris to a civil-service family and orphaned early, he showed perfect pitch as a child, received piano lessons from Camille-Marie Stamaty, and entered the Paris Conservatoire at thirteen, where organ and composition studies shaped his formal training. After graduating he pursued a conventional path as a church organist, first at Saint-Merri and later at La Madeleine, before turning to a fr…
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