Saint-Saens' popular piece is arranged here for string quartet. Set as part of the ABRSM Cello Syllabus Grade 6.

First scholarly-critical edition of this work.Variants from the Orchestral version shown in the Violin part.This virtuoso work based on the Cuban Habanera rhythm was composed in 1887 and is a part of standard concert repertoire. Following Christine Baur?s highly successful Bärenreiter Urtext edition of Saint Saens? ?Allegro appassionato? (BA 9047) the editor now presents the ?Havanaise? in the version for Violin and Piano.This first-ever critical edi tion of ?Havanaise? draws on both the composer?s autograph version for Violin and Piano as well as the later orchestrated version. Where the solo part of theorchestral version differs from the version for Violin and Piano the variants are shown in the Violin part as ossias.The editor offers a concise and informative introduction (Eng/Ger/ Fr) on the history and compositional process of ?Havanaise?; a detailed critical commentary (Eng) concludes this Urtext edition.

Transcription for Violin and Piano by the Composer. In his symphonic poem ?Danse macabre? Saint-Saëns takes up a poem by Henri Cazalis that he had already set as an art song. Here the Devil brings the dead to life by playing his violin. Although the orchestral work was given a lukewarm reception in its early performances, or was even rejected, it became highly popular and internationally famous in the years that followed. Of the countless later arrangements and variations (e.g. by Franz Liszt), Saint-Saëns? own version for violin and piano stands out as particularly successful. Céline Drèze?s advance edition for a future volume of the ?Saint-Saëns Complete Edition of the Instrumental Works? is the first modern scholarly edition of this celebrated piece. This Urtext edition draws on the original print of the 1877 version, while eliminating its many misprints and anomalies on the basis of the autograph.