“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.
From Christmas Oratorio
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317410
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 317885
Oratorium
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 995063
for: Blechbläserquartett
Book
Item no.: 938328
for: 2 Soprane (Sopran/Alt) und Orgel
Item no.: 1701272
for: Voice (high), piano
Score
Item no.: 314080
Choral Large Works
for: Voice
Piano reduction
Item no.: 317701
Oratorio de Noel
for: Soli SMsATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Orgel, Harfe
Score
Item no.: 1337241
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 921184
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236156
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236154
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236157
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 343877
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 633491
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236155
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236158
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 873179
Oratorio de Noel
for: Soli SMsATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Orgel, Harfe
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1336998
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Harp (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236159
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Harp (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764117
for: Concert band
Item no.: 343896
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen
Grüne Reihe Edition Peters
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 482972
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764113
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 873132
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 482970
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 482969
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764118
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 867621
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 205526
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 645022
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Set of parts
Item no.: 647944
from the Christmas Oratorio op. 12
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 903067
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764112
Oratorio de Noel
for: Soli SMsATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Orgel, Harfe
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1336999
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764115
Oratorio de Noel
for: Soli SMsATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Orgel, Harfe
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1337001
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Item no.: 333315
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764114
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 560702
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Viola
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 482971
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764116
Drei Sätze aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium op. 12
édition bon(n)orgue Vol. 75
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1008783
Oratorio de Noel
for: Soli SMsATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Orgel, Harfe
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1337000
for: Piano left hand
Music lesson book
Item no.: 178262
mit tollen Melodien von Camille Saint-Saëns
Pappbilderbuch mit Löwe, Elefant und Co. mit Geräuschen für Kinder ab 1 Jahr
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1652462
Weihnachtsoratorium op. 12
Carus Choir Coach Sopran
mp3-CD
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part soprano)
Item no.: 679589
Weihnachtsoratorium op. 12
Carus Choir Coach Tenor
mp3-CD
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 679590
Weihnachtsoratorium op. 12
Carus Choir Coach Alt
mp3-CD
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part alto)
Item no.: 665248
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