Aquarium is the seventh of fourteen movements from Le Carnaval des Animaux (The Carnival of the Animals) by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The orchestral work has a duration between 22 and 30 minutes. The Aquarium piece was composed of strings without double-bass, two pianos, flute, and glass armonica: This is one of the more musically rich movements. The melody is played by the flute, backed by the strings, on top of tumultuous, glissando-like runs in the piano. The first piano plays a descending ten-on-one ostinato, while the second plays a six-on-one. These fig… read more
Aquarium is the seventh of fourteen movements from Le Carnaval des Animaux (The Carnival of the Animals) by the French Romantic composer Camille Sain… read more
Aquarium is the seventh of fourteen movements from Le Carnaval des Animaux (The Carnival of the Animals) by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The orchestral work has a du… read more
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… read more
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 Camil…read more