“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: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 472603
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 273001
from Oratorio de Noël
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198413
aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium op. 12
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 557223
Christmas for Band
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 482591
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Organ
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 492861
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
Item no.: 746208
for: Voice (high), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 5346
No. 10 of Oratorio de Noel op. 12
Masterworks of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 772288
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 604746
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
Piano score XL in large, reader-friendly print
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Piano reduction (XL format)
Item no.: 663110
The Christmas Oratorio by Saint-Saëns in a fascinating recording.
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Audio-CD
Item no.: 603892
for: Brass Quartet or Quintet
Buch
Item no.: 1153869
Oratorio de Noël (Ausgabe nach dem Erstdruck von 1869)
Fassung mit deutschem Text
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 136748
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Harp
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 482973
for: 2 Soprane (Sopran/Alt) und Orgel
Music score
Item no.: 740400
for: Tenor Voice a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 876831
for: SATB with SSATBar Soli [Orch.]
Book
Item no.: 937796
Suite aus op. 12
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 557468
Christmas for Band
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1671241
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 423635
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Klavier, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1337848
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 5245
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 179130
for: 2 Soprane (Sopran/Alt) und Orgel
Item no.: 477531
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: SOLI GCH HA STR ORG
Score
Item no.: 467961
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 189238
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 283755
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 623165
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Study score
Item no.: 164116
for: Tenor saxophone [soprano saxophone], piano [organ]
Item no.: 225797
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 660273
for: VoiceTrax CD
CD
Item no.: 798590
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
Complete orchestral parts
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 649420
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 283795
From Christmas Oratorio
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317410
for: Blechbläserquartett
Book
Item no.: 938328
for: 2 Soprane (Sopran/Alt) und Orgel
Item no.: 1701272
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 317885
for: Voice (high), piano
Score
Item no.: 314080
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 995063
for: Soli SMsATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Orgel, Harfe
Score
Item no.: 1337241
for: Voice
Piano reduction
Item no.: 317701
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
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