Gerard Brooks gives a brief survey of the organ works of Camille Saint-Saens, and describes what made him different from other organist-composers of his time. Gerard wrote on French and Belgian organ music for the Cambridge Companion to the Organ, and has recorded the complete organ works of Saint-Saens on historic organs in France. This video is one of 26 in a series entitled An A-Z of the Organ, filmed by the RCO team and colleagues around the UK at the height of the Covid-19 lockdown. Starting with A for Anthology and concluding with Z for ? (wait and see!),…