“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.
Selection of original pieces and transcriptions
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 499283
Piano Picture Book
Le Carnaval des Animaux
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 299413
Opera in three acts op. 47
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318184
A Menagerie for upper voices (SSA) and piano
Choral Programme Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 186748
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 773058
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 796980
for: Women's choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 161598
Musique Française
for: Tenor trombone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 696326
für Violine und Orchester
Ausgabe für Violine und Klavier (Klavierauszug mit bezeichneter und unbezeichneter Streicherstimme)
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 679843
Dover Piano And Keyboard Editions
for: Harpsichord [piano]
Music score
Item no.: 136169
aus: Karneval der Tiere
bearbeitet für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2692
Musik in der Grundschule
Mediapaket
Book, CD
Item no.: 635337
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
Chanson à boire, op. 141 Nr. 2
(1913)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5731
Arrangement for two pianos
Two copies needed for performance
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 679819
for string quartet
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 681629
Poème symphonique für Orchester
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 675916
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 622820
Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 623437
14 challenging and effective pieces for two flutes
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 674550
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 558196
für Viola oder Violoncello und Klavier
for: Cello [viola], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 181163
aus: Karneval der Tiere
for: Cello [bassoon], piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 1528
aus "Karneval der Tiere"
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part, audio files (pdf/mp3 download)
Item no.: 1475
Edition Peters Green Series
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 383378
DOWANI 3 Tempi Play Along
for: Clarinet (B-flat)
Single part, Playback-CD
Item no.: 247499
aus: Karneval der Tiere
bearbeitet für Viola und Klavier
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 2691
Edition Peters Green Series
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 383300
for: Piano
Item no.: 607739
with marked and unmarked string parts
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 554864
for cello and piano
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 404225
for violin and piano
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 404281
Tiere in der Orgelmusik 2
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 368446
for Violoncello and Piano
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 404152
Materialien für den Musikunterricht in Klasse eins bis sechs nach den musikalischen Miniaturen von Camille Saint-Saëns
for: School class
Book
Item no.: 302673
aus: Karneval der Tiere
bearbeitet für Flöte/Oboe und Klavier
for: Flute [oboe], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2695
grande fantaisie zoologique
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 283676
"Der Karneval der Tiere"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 274940
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 576999
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 488273
with marked and unmarked string parts
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 337599
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 208369
für Violine und Orchester
Ausgabe für Violine und Klavier, Monsieur Sarasate gewidmet
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
Item no.: 383383
Ausgabe für Violoncello und Klavier vom Komponisten, Auguste Tolbecque gewidmet
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 383385
Klavierauszug nach dem Original von Saint-Saens (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Cello, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 150328
for violin and piano
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 255694
for: Piano
Item no.: 476282
Solo-Konzert
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 283776
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 609239
The Swan - Le cygne
for: Cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 442566
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