Camille Saint-Saëns
The Carnival of the Animals No. 5: The Elephant
Camille Saint-Saëns
The Carnival of the Animals No. 5: The Elephant
- Instrumentation Double Bass and Piano
- Optional Instrumentation Cello and Piano
- Composer Camille Saint-Saëns
- Editor Lucien Garban
- Series Master String Series - LudwigMasters
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Ludwig Music Publishing Company
- Order no. LU-M314891
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Description:
Following a disastrous concert tour of Germany in 1885-86, Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) withdrew to a small Austrian village, where he composed THE CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS (LE CARNAVAL DES ANIMAUX) in February 1886. 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. No. 5, THE ELEPHANT (L'ÉLÉPHANT), for Double Bass (or Violoncello) and Piano, is marked Allegro pomposo, which is perfectly suitable to describing an elephant. This transcription is by Lucien Garban.