“I like good company, but I like hard work still better.” Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
Saint-Saëns was an inexhaustible French pianist, organist and composer, responsible for the infamous The Carnival of Animals. Browse our sheet music and scores, and have a carnival with Camille today!
Camille Saint-Saëns was born in Paris on October the 9th, 1835, and since his father died a few months later, he was raised by his mother and his great-aunt, who was a pianist. Camille’s musical talents were clear from an early age, he took his first piano lessons with his great aunt, and he fell in love with the organ at the very first note. With composition, he also started young, and was only 15 years old when he completed his first symphony (Symphony in A major), which is now very rarely performed.
After completing his studies in piano, organ and composition at the Paris Conservatoire, he first worked as an organist, but he gave up his position in 1877, to pursue his love of composition.
As he became increasingly famous, he took more trips within Europe, and to America, as well as to Africa, and it was on this final trip that he died on December 16, 1921 in Algiers, at the age of 86.
Only a few pieces from Camille Saint-Saëns’ great work have made it into the modern concert and stage repertoire. About half of his work is made up of virtually forgotten vocal pieces, such as cantatas, songs with piano, and choral works. However, The Christmas Oratorio and his opera Samson and Dalilah are extremely popular today.
Among his instrumental works, the Piano Concertos by Saint-Saëns and the Saint-Saëns Cello Concerto are regularly featured in the modern concert repertoire. The Saint-Saëns Piano Works and the Organ Works by Saint-Saëns, which cover all difficulty levels, are often used by musicians as part of their professional training and development. A work of note is the Symphony No.3 by Saint-Saëns. In this ’organ symphony’, the composer uses the ’queen of instruments’ to create a special timbre within the orchestra.
One of the most famous works by Camille Saint-Saëns is the The Carnival of Animals, with which he enjoyed great success, just a few years before his death.
At first, Saint-Saëns’ musical ideas were regarded as ’revolutionary’, and were initially very successful abroad, before gaining popularity at home. It was not, however, until the late 1880s, that he was considered an established force within the classic music world. At the turn of the century, a new musical avant-garde arrived, with Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Igor Stravinsky, and Saint-Saëns was increasingly over-looked, and his fame dwindled, as his music was now widely considered ’old-fashioned’.
Throughout his life, Saint-Saëns was an advocate for French traditional and national music, and along with César Franck, he was co-founder of the ’Société Nationale de Musique’, which offered young French composers a pathway into the music world. He also spend his life fighting against the German influence on French music, especially that of Richard Wagner and Arnold Schönberg.
The Carnival of the Animals
for: Chamber ensemble
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 773503
The Carnival of the Animals
for: Chamber ensemble
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 773497
The Carnival of the Animals
for: Chamber ensemble
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 773494
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 773058
No. 10 of Oratorio de Noel op. 12
Masterworks of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 772288
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 771660
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part (Organ solo)
Item no.: 771659
Arrangement for strings, harp and organ
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Score
Item no.: 771664
Arrangement for strings, harp and organ
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 771669
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 764491
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 764120
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 764106
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Harp (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764117
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764113
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764118
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764112
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764115
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764114
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 764119
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764116
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 764086
(from Oratorio de Noël, op. 12)
Discovery Level 2
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 746211
(from Oratorio de Noël, op. 12)
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 746208
Opera in three acts
L'Opéra français
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 745453
Trios, Édition A
Extrait Du Tome II Des Oeuvres complètes publiées sous la direction de C. Saint-Säens
for: Violin [flute], cello, piano
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 697361
Musique Française
for: Tenor trombone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 696326
for: 4 guitars (quartet)
Score
Item no.: 693098
Symphonic poem
after a poem by Henri Cazalis
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 692990
Symphonic poem
after a poem by Henri Cazalis
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Single part (Violin solo)
Item no.: 692987
Symphonic poem
after a poem by Henri Cazalis
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 692991
Symphonic poem
after a poem by Henri Cazalis
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 692986
Symphonic poem
after a poem by Henri Cazalis
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 692993
Symphonic poem
after a poem by Henri Cazalis
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 692992
Symphonic poem
after a poem by Henri Cazalis
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 692988
Symphonic poem
after a poem by Henri Cazalis
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 692989
for: 4 guitars (quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 692899
for: Clarinet, piano
Score
Item no.: 691433
Editions Marc Reift
Recorder Music
for: Treble recorder, organ [piano]
Score, solo part
Item no.: 691299
for: Violin, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 690383
for: Violin, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 690380
for: Violin, orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 690379
for: Violin, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 690381
for: Violin, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 690378
in Zusammenarbeit mit dem G. Henle Verlag
for: Violin, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 690377
for: Violin, orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 690382
Camille Saint-Saëns. Œuvres instrumentales complètes I/4
for: Symphonic orchestra
Werkausgabe, Partitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 868789
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 689579
Kalmus Classic Series
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 688449
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