Le Carnaval Des Animaux: Aquarium
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) was a French Romantic composer, pianist, or… Read Full Bio ↴Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) was a French Romantic composer, pianist, organist, and teacher.
Born in Paris on 9th October 1835, Saint-Saëns was a child prodigy. He had lessons with Camille-Marie Stamaty and Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, going on to the Paris Conservatoire in 1848, where he was taught by Fromental Halévy .
He soon came to the notice - and earned the admiration of - such eminent composers as Charles Gounod, Gioacchino Rossini, Hector Berlioz, and Franz Liszt. He was appointed organist at the Madeleine (1857-1875), and taught at the École Niedermeyer from 1861 to 1865, Gabriel Fauré being one of his pupils.
Aside from these paid positions, Saint-Saëns was heavily involved in the musical world; he organised concerts of Liszt's symphonic poems, he worked to revive popular interest in earlier, especially Baroque, composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Jean-Philippe Rameau, but he also, on behalf of new French music, co-founded the Société Nationale de Musique in 1871. He also wrote on music, science, and history, and often travelled around Europe, North Africa, and South America.
Saint-Saëns was a virtuoso pianist and a prolific composer. His best-known work among general audience is Le carnaval des animaux (1886), though he forbade performances of it in his lifetime, apart from "Le cygne".
He died in Algiers on 16th December 1921.
Born in Paris on 9th October 1835, Saint-Saëns was a child prodigy. He had lessons with Camille-Marie Stamaty and Alexandre Pierre François Boëly, going on to the Paris Conservatoire in 1848, where he was taught by Fromental Halévy .
He soon came to the notice - and earned the admiration of - such eminent composers as Charles Gounod, Gioacchino Rossini, Hector Berlioz, and Franz Liszt. He was appointed organist at the Madeleine (1857-1875), and taught at the École Niedermeyer from 1861 to 1865, Gabriel Fauré being one of his pupils.
Aside from these paid positions, Saint-Saëns was heavily involved in the musical world; he organised concerts of Liszt's symphonic poems, he worked to revive popular interest in earlier, especially Baroque, composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, and Jean-Philippe Rameau, but he also, on behalf of new French music, co-founded the Société Nationale de Musique in 1871. He also wrote on music, science, and history, and often travelled around Europe, North Africa, and South America.
Saint-Saëns was a virtuoso pianist and a prolific composer. His best-known work among general audience is Le carnaval des animaux (1886), though he forbade performances of it in his lifetime, apart from "Le cygne".
He died in Algiers on 16th December 1921.
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Le Carnaval Des Animaux: Aquarium
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@TheCatchFilms
One of the most hauntingly beautiful songs ever written.
@MickeyMouseFan-mz9qz
Yes men
@05nakhwalmain
Piece.
@burr69
Piece.
@burr69
@@guruh401 Your easy guitar playlist has a severe lack of guitar songs and pieces 😂 try out Bach partita 997 for lute on your guitar but it’s not easy I don’t think
@burr69
@Anatoli Smorrin according to google it’s a suite which is a subset of piece
@Urlocalnobodyisstalkingyou
This piece is so eery, sinister but at the same time so beautiful, brings you peace, serenity, and so misterious😊.
@arcticcat4674
I agree beautiful yet frightening. It enchants yet makes you feel beware.
@DJfractalflight
This is the piece from which the Prologue theme of Beauty and the Beast was written by Alan Menken, intended as a version of Aquarium, which was used as a temporary mood-filler piece in the film’s production while Alan came up with his own version—which became the Prologue theme of the movie!
Also, the final pounding chords of Aquarium remind me of the ones that conclude Rachmaninov’s “Rach 3.” Both have similar alternating pounding chords that ascend in same manner to the peak chord which Aquarium ends on, but Rach 3 has 4 final punctuating chords at the end!
bum-ba-ba-BUM!
@ilium6740
Yes, also Christopher Young was inspired by this when writing soundtracks to Hellraiser etc.