“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.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1337883
for: Trumpet
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1050910
for: Women's choir (SA), organ
Score
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for: Trombone, piano
Sheet music
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for: Violin, piano
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for: Voice, piano
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for: Piccolo, piano [organ]
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for: Alto saxophone, guitar
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for: Bass clarinet
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for: Trumpet, guitar
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for: Tuba, piano [organ]
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for: Cello, guitar
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for: Tuba (E-flat), piano [organ]
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for: Violin, piano
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for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1379179
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1383012
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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op. 158
for: Cello, organ
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1787
aus der Suite F-Dur, op. 90
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2661
Bb
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1049915
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1478809
G
for: Electronic Keyboard
Keyboard
Item no.: 1642185
aus der Messe de Requiem
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1337886
Edition Schott
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 750616
C
for: Bassoon, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1642184
for: Solo for Flute, Piccolo, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Violin, Viola or Violoncello & Orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 1251466
for: Euphonium, piano
Sheet music
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for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1246554
for: Horn (F), organ [piano]
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for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
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Item no.: 1246516
for: Euphonium, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1246515
for: Guitar & Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1243589
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1382096
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1383139
aus: Karneval der Tiere
bearbeitet für Viola und Klavier
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part, audio file
Item no.: 2691
Edition Schott
for: Bassoon, piano
Music score
Item no.: 750570
from "Carnival of the Animals"
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 731719
from: Le Carnaval des animaux
for: Double bass, piano
Music score
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for: 2 Soprane (Sopran/Alt) und Orgel
Music score
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Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
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op. 81
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 737757
from: Le Carnaval des animaux
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1341269
Bearbeitung für Streicher, Harfe und Orgel (arr. K. Rothaupt)
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1340490
for: Flute, piano
Sheet music
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for: Solo for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Euphonium, Violin, Viola or Violoncello & Orchestra
Sheet music
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for: Tuba (E-flat), piano
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for: Violin, piano
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for: Baritone saxophone, guitar
Sheet music
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