Camille Saint-Saëns

In 1845, he was only ten years old; he could already play all of Ludwig Van Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas from memory. After his first true public performance at the "Salle Pleyel" on the 6th of May 1846, he was hailed as a second Mozart. Later that year he won a prize from the "Société Sainte Cecile" and his first symphony was produced the next year (1847) by the same Society.

Camille Saint-Saëns was desperately precocious composing his first piece at the age of three a "Galop" for piano.

Hear the Swan played on cello. France Springuel cello and Jose-Carlos Cocarelli piano