“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.
Pour Alto et Piano
for: Viola or 2 Viole and Piano
Score
Item no.: 882739
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 921995
Marsch
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 889624
Arrangement Pour Quatuor Ou Choeur A Voix Mixtes
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 872307
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 874943
Klassik
for: Flute, Violoncello and Piano
Book
Item no.: 997327
Pour Deux Piano A Quatre Mains
for: Piano 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 891369
Sudien und Übungen
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 922783
Avec Accompagnement De Piano
for: Cello or 2 Celli and Piano
Score
Item no.: 893000
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 882557
Oper/Operette
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 872058
pour Chant et Piano
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 922396
Transcription Pour Piano A Quatre Mains
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 921764
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 922952
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 879455
for: Women's Choir and Organ
Choir score
Item no.: 998623
for: Horn and Organ
Book
Item no.: 998803
Klassik
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 921010
op. 37
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1582267
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1201487
Scene du Mendiant - Danse de l'Amour
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 862259
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 188470
pour piano à 4 mains partition
extrait du Carnaval des animaux
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 180007
erzählt und erklärt von Albrecht Trebies
Fassung der Musikbeispiele von Michael Rüggeberg
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 179139
op. 43
for: Cello, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 478049
for: Cello and Guitar
Book
Item no.: 248054
Walzer
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 218559
pour piano à 4 mains
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 659176
bearbeitet von Claude Debussy
for: 2 pianos
Ensemble score
Item no.: 497273
for: Mixed Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 621444
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 330265
for: 2 trumpets, organ
Item no.: 328438
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 580484
Nr. 1 e-Moll op. 112 / Nr. 2 G-Dur op. 153
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681886
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 577811
for: Clarinet, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 194145
Solo-Konzert
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 376027
Opus 23
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 365603
for: Cello and Organ
Buch
Item no.: 283845
A hattyú
EMB Musica per chitarra
for: Viola [cello], guitar
Score, Parts
Item no.: 197995
Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 133602
für Soli (SATB) gemischten Chor (SATB), Orchester und Orgel
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 672635
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1587043
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 891017
(Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 343553
Caprice-Valse
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 344873
for: Organ or Harmonium
Score
Item no.: 343246
for: Piano
Item no.: 363632
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