[127] Harmonie et Mélodie.
[128] Charles Gounod, Mémoires d'un Artiste.
[129] Les Heures; Mors; Modestie (Rimes familières).
[130] "Thanks to Berlioz, all my generation has been shaped, and well shaped" (Portraits et Souvenirs).
[131] "I like Liszt's music so much, because he does not bother about other people's opinions; he says what he wants to say; and the only thing that he troubles about is to say it as well as he possibly can" (Quoted by Hippeau).
[132] The quotations are taken from Harmonie et Mélodie and Portraits et Souvenirs.
[133] In Harmonie et Mélodie M. Saint-Saëns tells us that he organised and directed a concert in the Théâtre-Italien where only Liszt's compositions were played. But all his efforts to make the French musical public appreciate Liszt were a failure.
[134] The admiration was mutual. M. Saint-Saëns even said that without Liszt he could not have written Samson et Dalila. "Not only did Liszt have Samson et Dalila performed at Weimar, but without him that work would never have come into being. My suggestions on the subject had met with such hostility that I had given up the idea of writing it; and all that existed were some illegible notes.... Then at Weimar one day I spoke to Liszt about it, and he said to me, quite trustingly and without having heard a note, 'Finish your work; I will have it performed here.' The events of 1870 delayed its performance for several years." (Revue Musicale, 8 November, 1901).
[135] Portraits et Souvenirs.
[136] Harmonie et Mélodie.