“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.
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 864759
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1009764
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
for: Piano, orchestra
2 Piano reductions
Item no.: 817484
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 922809
Oper/Operette
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 890164
BOVACO Vocal Solo
for: Voice, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1031239
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 883553
for: Women's Choir [SSA] and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092065
Klassik
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 864198
Symphonic poem
after a poem by Henri Cazalis
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 692989
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1202531
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Piano 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 863285
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 866526
for: Alto Voice
Score
Item no.: 865689
for: Cello or 2 Celli and Piano
Score
Item no.: 873087
Klassik
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 872898
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 673898
Motette
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 445748
DOWANI 3 Tempi Play Along
for: Clarinet (B-flat)
Single part, Playback-CD
Item no.: 247499
Walzer
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 881729
Solo Spectrum
for: Horn and Concert Band/Harmonie/Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 880934
ShowTrax CD
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811177
for: Cello, orchestra
Item no.: 564718
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Chamber ensemble
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1689626
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 771655
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 771654
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678996
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 771658
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Chamber ensemble
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1689628
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678997
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 672639
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678999
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678998
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Chamber ensemble
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1689629
Arrangement for strings, harp and organ
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 771669
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 771657
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 771656
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Chamber ensemble
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1689627
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Chamber ensemble
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1689625
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 279276
Bearbeitung für Soli, Chor und Orgel
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 473344
Christmas Oratorio
New Urtext Edition based on original sources
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 467962
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
Graduated prices on request
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 187768
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Score
Item no.: 422849
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 764119
from Oratorio de Noël
for: Symphonic Band and Choir Ad Lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198615
Bring and raise Offerings
Final movement of the Christmas Oratorio, op. 12
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 665181
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 245079
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