Talk:Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns)

Keys of movements and orchestrations
I think the keys of the movements should be included. I also think the orchestration should be included. A. Wang (talk/contrb.) 22:56, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

The number of movements
The composer intended a two-movement symphony. I think it should be listed as two movements in the encyclopedia article. A. Wang (talk/contrb.) 23:09, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Two pianos or four hands?
Dover publishes the score which with its list of instruments etc. should settle the matter (also copies in the library on campus here)- will have to go look. There are cases where even this wouldn't settle the matter (Nielsen symphony 5 with its first published edition whose "revisions" removed important material only restored in the recent scholarly edition) but this is hopefully not one of them. Schissel | Sound the Note! 13:37, 6 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I looked at the full score provided in this article; It looks like one piano - four hands; I don't think it is two pianos anymore. I changed it to what I am assuming. A Wang (talk/contrb.) 18:44, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Performance/Recording Section
Mr. Wang, you can use the talk page to dispute the bias of the section. Drastically changing the section and removing the quotes I put is NOT the way to do it. E-mail me at albermarle52@yahoo.com if you want to discuss this, or just use the talk section. Thanks —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.219.36.22 (talk) 14:04, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

I most likely edited the same as Mr. Wang here in this section. Opinions of "proper" performance and recording technique have no place in an encyclopedic entry. --67.244.23.13 (talk) 03:32, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

"parody of the Dies Irae"
Symphony No. 3 (Saint-Saëns) mentions a parody of the "Dies Irae" during the Maestoso. Could anyone provide a citation or some kind of specifics regarding this point? It's an interesting piece of trivia, but without more detail it's kind of confusing to this uneducated reader. dcooper1 (talk) 09:11, 8 October 2008 (UTC)

Also, someone could usefully mention which Dies Irae it is... Verdi's? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.92.172.175 (talk) 13:01, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

I think the article means the plainchant Dies Irae LudwigVanVivaldi (talk) 18:33, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

Ed (talk) 15:47, 29 July 2016 (UTC)Yes, it's not a "parody" but a quotation of the Plainchant Dies Irae which Berlioz did not use in his Requiem but wrote an original tune instead.


 * However Berlioz DID use the plainchant Dies Irae in the final movement of the Symphony Fantastique.  It's the notes  F E F D E C D D | F G A A G F G E | D.   2001:558:6011:1:1CA0:8880:2F90:A2F5 (talk) 15:51, 11 March 2017 (UTC)

Critical reception
I always enjoy reading what the critics had to say about music. Anybody have any info on the critics opinions of Symph #3 when it was first performed? BobinBallard (talk) 21:06, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

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Eh?
>> Although not included in the soundtrack, the Maestoso movement can be heard along with Dvořák's 9th Symphony in Emir Kusturica's film Underground. <<

If it's not included in the soundtrack, how on earth can it be heard in the film? -- Picapica (talk) 23:47, 15 May 2015 (UTC)


 * Possibly the writer meant the soundtrack cd? Bever (talk) 03:15, 12 December 2016 (UTC)

Pedal section
This section is just a personal opinion, albeit one that probably many people share. It is unsourced. It should either go or be based on something published about the effect of the work in performance – possibly critical reception.

Useful material here : https://www.theguardian.com/music/tomserviceblog/2014/feb/25/symphony-guide-saint-saens-organ-tom-service

Rconroy (talk) 13:28, 29 January 2018 (UTC)
 * I agree. Removed. After all, it's not encyclopedic that I break down every time the organ cuts in at the end of Mahler's 2nd. :-) -- SarekOfVulcan (talk) 14:50, 29 January 2018 (UTC)