Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 – 1921)
Oratorio de Noël op. 12
Christmas Oratorio New Urtext Edition based on original sources
5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
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Details
- For
- 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
- Product Type
- Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
- Author / Composer
- Camille Saint-Saëns
- Editor
- Edward Blakeman
- Product number
- 467962
- Languages
- latin
Description
Saint-Saëns was twenty-three when he wrote his Oratorio de Noël and it has all the freshness of a young composer eager to prove himself. He had been organist of the fashionable Church of the Madeleine in Paris for just a year – a prestigious position – and the Oratorio was a major undertaking for his second Christmas there. The work was written in just twelve days between 4 and 15 December 1858.
Despite Saint-Saëns's efforts in overseeing the publication of the Oratorio, it had various mistak...