The Swan

Camille Saint-Saëns

For alto sax and piano

Written in F major, range D4 to C6

A swan glides across a still lake, calm and unhurried. It is the only part of Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals that he allowed to be published in his lifetime.

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