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Feb 24, 2022 · Saint-Saëns portrays the skittishness of wild donkeys with a hurricane of racing semiquavers, played in octaves by two pianos. The flighty creatures are gone almost as quickly as they arrived, as the whole movement only lasts around 30 seconds.
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The Carnival of the Animals has since become one of Saint-Saëns's best-known works, played in the original version for eleven instruments, or more often with the full string
His best-known works include Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso (1863), the Second Piano Concerto (1868), the First Cello Concerto (1872), Danse macabre (1874), the opera Samson and Delilah (1877), the Third Violin Concerto (1880), the Third ("Organ") Symphony (1886) and The Carnival of the Animals (1886).
Sep 23, 2021 · Carnival of the Animals is scored for two pianos, two violins, viola, cello, double bass, flute and piccolo, clarinet, glass harmonica and xylophone. The pianos play a particularly main role throughout all fourteen movements of this suite, which does borderline a mini concerto form.
His extreme musical facility – he could play all of Beethoven's piano sonatas from memory and his compositions were produced with little apparent effort – was a passport to later fame, but it also became a handicap, preventing him from progressing to more profound musical levels later in life.
The Carnival involves a bizarre instrumental line-up. The two pianos (played at the premiere by Saint-Saëns himself and Louis Diémer) are at the centre. Alongside them are a string quartet, double bass, flute/piccolo (Paul Taffanel its first performer), clarinet, glass harmonica and xylophone.
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Saint-Saëns originally crafted his ‘Grand Zoological Fantasy’ keeping a small group of instruments in mind – one each of clarinet, piccolo, flute, double bass, cello, and viola, and two violins. He also included a few surprise elements – a glass harmonica, two pianos, and xylophone.
