Saint-Saëns: Super flumina Babylonis

SKU: BA11305-90
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Format Descriptions

  • Composer: Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Piano reduction: Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Instrumentation (this edition): Piano Reduction, SATB Choir
  • Originally for: Organ, SATB Choir, Soprano, Saxophone Quartet, Strings
  • Work: Psalm 136: Super flumina Babylonis (By the Rivers of Babylon) (1854)
  • Work Language: Latin
  • ISMN: 9790006567034
  • Size: 7.5 x 10.6 inches
  • Pages: 18
  • Urtext / Critical Edition

Description

Psalm 137 "Super flumina Babylonis" also known as "By the rivers of Babylon" was an inspiration for many composers including Camille Saint-Saëns. He repeatedly occupied himself with his psalm motet for solo soprano, mixed choir, saxophone quartet, string orchestra and organ, originally composed in 1854. Two of the four versions – the first version in Latin and a much later version in English for alto solo, SATB choir and piano – are now available for the first time in Urtext performing editions taking a meticulous account of all the sources.

Saint-Saëns lived up to his reputation as an innovative composer by exploring the use of the saxophone family in sacred music just a few years after the invention of these instruments. The successful combination of voice and saxophone creates a special sound experience.

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