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Xylo.Harmonium(Glock):
Solo Pnos(2): Str
(9-8-7-6-5 in set)
SKU: AP.36-A829901
Composed by Camille Saint
Saens and ed. Clinton
Nieweg/ Nancy Bradburd.
Arranged by Clinton
Nieweg and Nancy
Bradburn. Chamber
Orchestra. Nieweg
Performance Editions.
Score. LudwigMasters
Publications #36-A829901.
Published by
LudwigMasters
Publications
(AP.36-A829901).
ISBN
9781581068528. UPC:
654690647610.
English.
Following
a disastrous concert tour
of Germany in 1885-86,
Saint-Saëns withdrew
to a small Austrian
village, where he
composed The Carnival of
the Animals in February
1886. It is scored for
two pianos, two violins,
viola, cello, double
bass, flute (and
piccolo), clarinet (C and
B?), glass harmonica, and
xylophone. From the
beginning, the composer
regarded the work as a
piece of fun. He wrote to
his publishers Durand in
Paris that he was
composing a work for the
coming Shrove Tuesday,
and confessing that he
knew he should be working
on his Third Symphony,
but that this work was
such fun (... mais c'est
si amusant!). He had
apparently intended to
write the work for his
students at the École
Niedermeyer, but it was
first performed at a
private concert given by
the cellist Charles
Lebouc on Shrove Tuesday,
9 March 1886.
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