“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.
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 681630
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 283781
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 554858
Piano Play-Along
for: Piano
Music score, CD
Item no.: 465520
The Carnival of the Animals
for: Chamber ensemble
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 773494
Musique Française
for: Tenor trombone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 696326
Classic Clarinet Series
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 335832
from The Carnival of the Animals
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 722305
A Menagerie for upper voices (SSA) and piano
Choral Programme Series
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Item no.: 186748
pour chant et piano
for: Vocal and piano
Buch
Item no.: 1178012
from The Carnival of Animals
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 175477
Urtext Collection (Carisch)
for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 163401
from The Carnival of the Animals
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 732048
for: Solo voice (alto), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615867
for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 773058
Lyric book
Item no.: 318306
for: Women's choir, organ [piano]
Score
Item no.: 161598
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 796980
Lehrhilfsmittel
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 311180
for horn with piano accompaniment
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1634295
from The Carnival of the Animals
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759088
Rubank Solo-Ensemble Sheet
for: Flute, piano
Book
Item no.: 1106957
Shawnee Press
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1656818
Great Zoological Fantasy
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Chamber orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 131945
Opera in three acts op. 47
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318184
(Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 224812
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759094
Klassik
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 101213
Lehrhilfsmittel
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 971695
from The Carnival of the Animals
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759103
Music for Brass
for: Horn
Music score
Item no.: 971722
pour chant et piano
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1178011
Accordion
for: Accordion orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 634733
The Walsh Collection
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1197052
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Solo voice (alto), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615866
Schildkröten - Der Kuckuck - Der Elefant
bearbeitet für Orgel
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2881
for: Flute, bassoon, piano
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 1192745
for: Flexible ensemble (4 voices)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1210272
(in two volumes with French libretto)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Study scores
Item no.: 1344521
from 'Carnival of the Animals'
Rising Band
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1062148
Collection Anacrouse
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1323916
Mon coeur s'ouvre a ta voix
for: Bläser-Ensemble und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 863291
Klassik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 884719
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 882761
Oper/Operette
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 921910
par P. Lemaître
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 883393
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 877005
Opera En 4 Actes
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 921988
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