The Carnival of the Animals Organ Sheet Music

A six minute selection from “The Carnival of the Animals” by Camille Saint-Saëns, arranged for advanced console organ by Simone Collins.

The download includes both A4 (10 pages) and US letter (11 pages) size sheet music in PDF format, comprising a cover page, a page of suggested registrations, and the music score.

This suite includes 9 of the 14 movements from The Carnival of Animals, providing a 6 minute performance on the organ:

  1. Royal March of the Lion
  2. The Tortoise
  3. The Elephant
  4. The Aquarium
  5. People with Long Ears
  6. The Cuckoo in the Deep Woods
  7. Fossils
  8. The Swan
  9. Finale

Originally arranged for Yamaha Electone Organ, this arrangement can be performed on other console organs with timpani rolls on the pedal board omitted in the Finale. Suggested registrations are included.

  • The Carnival of the Animals organ score p1
    The Carnival of the Animals organ score arranged by Simone Collins - page 1

Watch the debut performance of this arrangement of The Carnival of the Animals, performed by Simone Collins at age 11 on the Yamaha Electone HX-1 at the Yamaha Electone Festival in Perth in 1989:

Price in US dollars.