“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.
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
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339475
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
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
aus: Karneval der Tiere
bearbeitet für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2692
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
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
aus der Messe de Requiem
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1337886
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1337673
Chanson à boire, op. 141 Nr. 2
(1913)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5731
The Swan from: Le Carnaval des animaux, No. 13
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 746411
from The Carnival of the Animals
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722305
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 1341019
from "Carnival of the Animals"
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 731719
op. 81
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 737757
aus "Karneval der Tiere"
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 739543
The Swan from: Le carnaval des animaux, No. 13
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722528
from The Carnival of the Animals
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759088
op. 105
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 753000
from: “Le Carnaval des animaux”
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 723358
from "The Carnival of the Animals"
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 758445
from: The Carnival of the Animals
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 751001
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759094
from The Carnival of the Animals
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759103
from: Samson and Deliah
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 723207
aus "Karneval der Tiere"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1566003
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722318
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Orgel (ad libitum)
Chorpartitur Orgelbegleitung unterlegt
Item no.: 740192
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722290
from "The Carnival of the Animals"
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 746486
op. posth.
für Violoncello und Klavier
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1962
for: Flute, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1052950
op. 158
for: Cello, organ
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1787
op. 36
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1963
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