Symphonic Poem - Romantic Music

1. Review
• What is the meaning of Virtuoso?
• Who are the two virtuoso artists we
discussed last meeting?

2. SYMPHONIC POEM
DURING THE
ROMANTIC PERIOD

3. DO YOU KNOW?
Dou you know the inspiration behind Eric Clapton’s
“Tears in Heaven”?
Listen to the lyrics of the song carefully
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxPj3GAYYZ0
Will we really meet again?

4. TEARS IN HEAVEN
• Clapton wrote this about his four-year-old son Conor, who
died when he fell out of a 53rd floor window in the
apartment where his mother was staying in New York City.
• The story was very much similar with CAMILLE SAINT-
SAENS’ experience which you will learn later on.

5. SYMPHONIC POEM
• also called Tone Poem.
• a piece of orchestral music that
illustrates the content of a poem,
short story, novel or painting.

6. CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
• CREATED SOME OF THE MOST
WELL-KNOWN SYMPHONIC
POEMS.

7. • Pronounced as Kemi-Sen-Sons
• PIANIST, JOURNALIST, POET, AND SONG
WRITER
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS

8. • BORN IN PARIS, FRANCE
• ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF NATIONAL
SOCIETY OF MUSIC
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS

9. • PRAISED FOR HIS PURITY AND GRACE IN
PLAYING
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS

10. • HIS COMPOSITIONS HAD NEAT
PROPORTIONS, CLARITY AND POLISHED
EXPRESSION
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS

11. • 6 weeks apart, his 2 sons sadly lost their lives -
one fell out the window while other one drowned.
Oddly enough, this sad period in his life led him to
produce some of his most notable works namely
Danse macabre (1875) and Samson et Dalila
(1878)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyknBTm_YyM

12. LIFE LESSONS
• WHAT ARE THE LIFE LESSONS WE’VE
LEARNED FROM CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS?