“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.
Nr. 10 aus Oratorio de Noël op. 12
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 477437
op. 68, No. 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5763
Schlusschor des Oratorio de Noël
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Klavier, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1337848
aus dem Oratorio de Noel op.12
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 1136529
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 218380
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339475
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 553083
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 560702
Southern Music
for: Percussion ensemble
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 925200
aus dem "Oratorio de Noël op. 12"
F-Dur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 604746
op. 145
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 5245
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1337883
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB) [Orgel]
Score
Item no.: 1337880
from The Carnival of the Animals
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 732048
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 722243
aus der Suite F-Dur, op. 90
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2661
No. 10 of Oratorio de Noel op. 12
Masterworks of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 772288
op. 3, Nr. 1
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3861
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Score
Item no.: 1340267
for: Soli SMsA, [Chor (1-stimmig)], Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1586649
Choral
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 806429
for: Soli SMezA, [Chor 1stg], Orgel
Score
Item no.: 144717
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 423635
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1085479
aus: Karneval der Tiere
bearbeitet für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2692
Mid-Elementary Level
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 933370
for: Trumpet
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1050910
pour solo de soprano ou ténor, 1865
for: Voice (high), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 5346
op. 13
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 5468
for: Flute
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1050912
aus: Karneval der Tiere
bearbeitet für Trompete/Klarinette und Klavier
for: Trumpet (B-flat) [clarinet], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2693
aus: Karneval der Tiere
bearbeitet für Flöte/Oboe und Klavier
for: Flute [oboe], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2695
Famous Compositions/Early Intermediate Level
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 933420
for: Violin
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1050911
aus: Karneval der Tiere
bearbeitet für Altsaxophon und Klavier
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2694
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 289127
From Christmas Oratorio
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317410
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 921833
(from Oratorio de Noël, op. 12)
Discovery Level 2
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Score
Item no.: 746211
for: SATB, Organ, and optional String Quartet
Choir score
Item no.: 919750
for: SATB a Cappella, Opt. Keyboard
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1094497
(from Oratorio de Noël, op. 12)
Discovery Level 2
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 746208
Sudien und Übungen
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 893994
Klassik
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 864198
for: Women's Choir [SA] and Piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1101903
Deux Choeurs op. 68/2
MCM - Masterworks of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 682800
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1563005
aus der Messe de Requiem
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1337886
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