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Saint-Saëns, Camille: Piano Concerto no. 2 in g minor op. 22

Piano Reduction

piano score

Setting: Pianos (2)
Period: Romantic
Length: 84 pages
Weight: 0.34 kg
Published: 2017
Publisher: G. Henle Verlag
Item number: HN1355
Other reference: HN 1355
ISMN: 9790201813554
Given Saint-Saëns’ talents both as pianist and composer, it stood to reason that he would engage with the piano concerto genre early on. But he gave a clear renunciation of the ''concerto brilliant'' that was dominant in France at that time, declaring instead that ''the solo part of a concerto must be set out, and treated, like a dramatic role''. He realised this concept of a ''symphonic concerto'' in this second piano concerto, composed in 1868. The solo part is technically very challenging, an
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