Editor: Sylvia Hewig-Tröscher Fingering: Sylvia Hewig-Tröscher Pages: 56

Series: Schirmer Performance Editions Publisher: G. Schirmer, Inc. Format: Softcover Audio Online Composer: J. Friedrich Burgmüller Editor: Margaret Otwell

Given Saint-Saëns’ talents both as pianist and composer, it stood to reason that he would engage with the piano concerto genre early on. But he gave a clear renunciation of the “concerto brilliant” that was dominant in France at that time, declaring instead that “the solo part of a concerto must be set out, and treated, like a dramatic role”

Annette Oppermann (Editor) Mária Eckhardt (Preface)