Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 – 1921)
Le Carnaval des animaux
The Carnival of the Animals
Chamber ensemble
19.00 €
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Details
- For
- Chamber ensemble
- Product Type
- Study score (Urtext edition)
- Author / Composer
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Editor
- Ernst-Günter Heinemann
- Product number
- 773494
- Duration
- 22 Minutes
Description
Scoring: flute (piccolo), clarinet (B flat/C), harmonica, xylophon, piano I, piano II, violin I, violin II, viola, violoncello, double bass.
Written in March 1886 as a humorous occasional work for the traditional carnival concert organized by his cellist friend Charles-Joseph Lebouc, the Carnival of the Animals was so successful that Saint-Saëns banned performances and publication soon afterwards.
He was worried that this “grand zoological fantasy” - consisting of 14 short individual piece...