Les noces de Prométhée, Op.19

Camille Saint-Saëns · 1835 – 1921

Key

D major

Form

Secular cantatas, Sop ten bar 2ch orch, Fr

Instrumentation

Narrator (tenor), Humanity (soprano), Prometheus (baritone), Double chorus (SATB.SATB) and orchestra (piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, English horn, 2 clarinets, Bass clarinet, 2 bassoons, Contrabassoon, 2 natural horns, 2 valved horns, 3 (chromatic) trumpets, 4 trombones (2 tenor, 1 bass, 1 trombone contrebasse à pistons), 3 saxophones, Timpani, 2 pairs of harps, Triangle, Cymbals, Large drum, Strings)

Year composed

1867

Era

Romantic