“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: 2 flutes, piano
Book
Item no.: 994137
for: Flöte und Blasorchester
Score, Parts
Item no.: 994469
for: Klarinettenchor
Score, Parts
Item no.: 995084
pour Chant et Piano
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 882184
Transcription by Camille Saint-Saëns
for: Piano [harp]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1646319
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 667806
for: Flute, clarinet, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 796650
Klassik
for: Piano 4 hands
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 876894
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1315000
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 218556
for: Organ 4 hands
Item no.: 163850
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
Study Score 113
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 171184
La Volière/Le cygne
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 182706
Poème symphonique für Orchester
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 675916
transcription pour Violon et Piano par l'Auteur
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 210849
for: 5 brass winds
Item no.: 246621
für Violoncello (2 Spieler auf einem Cello)
for: Cello
Item no.: 228089
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 431070
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Score
Item no.: 429092
Repertoire Explorer
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 137243
The Swan from Carnival of the Animals
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 193536
Pour 2 Pianos
for: Piano 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 327062
for: 4 MARIMBA
Score, Parts
Item no.: 584398
Klassik
for: Organ or Harmonium
Buch
Item no.: 283777
for: Piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 283744
Solo-Konzert
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 283798
Band 2 - Frühwerk II
for: Organ
Item no.: 201997
transcription par Ernest Guiraud
for: Piano 4 hands
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 447085
pour Chant et Piano
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 491555
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 465744
Solo-Konzert
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 368391
pour Chant et Piano
for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Orgelmusik der Belle Epoque V
for: Organ
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 459482
Trombone & Piano
for: Trombone, piano
Sheet music
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for: Clarinet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596648
Horn Solo
for: F Horn & String Orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 596647
for: Solo for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Trumpet, Horn, Trombone, Euphonium, Violin, Viola or Violoncello & Orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 1308264
for: Piccolo, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1303224
Violin Solo
for: Violin, orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 1310500
for: Solo for Flute, Piccolo, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, Soprano Saxophone, Tenor Saxophone, Violin, Viola or Violoncello & Orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 1308117
for: Trumpet, piano
Sheet music
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for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
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for: Cello, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1300252
Clarinet Solo
for: Clarinet, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 1313043
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 420746
for: Oboe, piano [organ]
Sheet music
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for: Bass recorder, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1246548
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