Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor op. 78
Organ Symphony
Camille Saint-Saëns
Symphony No. 3 in C Minor op. 78
Organ Symphony
- Instrumentation Organ and Orchestra
- Composer Camille Saint-Saëns
- Editor Nancy M. Bradburd
- Series Nieweg Performance Editions - Kalmus
- Edition Score and Parts
- Publisher Edwin F. Kalmus
- Order no. K-A196902
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Description:
The Symphony No. 3 in C minor, popularly known as the 'Organ Symphony', was completed in 1886 at what could be considered the artistic peak of Saint-Saens' career. The composer said of the work, 'I gave everything to it I ws able to give. What I have here accomplisehd, I will never achieve again.' Seeming to recognize that it would be his last attempt at the symphonic form, the composer filled the work with virtuoso piano passages, brilliant Romantic-era orchestral writing, and the sound of a cathedral-sized pipe organ.