A master of form and orchestration, he wrote enduring works like The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, and the majestic 'Organ' Symphony, as well as five dazzling piano concertos. A champion of French music, he also helped revive interest in earlier composers like Bach. Saint-Saëns ...
He opens The Souls of Black Folk with the central thesis of much of his life's work: "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line." He wrote one of the first scientific treatises in the field of American sociology, and he published three autobiographies, each ...
A master of form and orchestration, he wrote enduring works like The Carnival of the Animals, Danse Macabre, and the majestic 'Organ' Symphony, as well as five dazzling piano concertos. A champion of French music, he also helped revive interest in earlier composers like Bach. Saint-Saëns ...