Desc: Der Karneval der Tiere - Ein Musikstück erzählt: Directed by Holger Preuße, Philipp Quiring. With Jean-Selim Abdelmoula, Alberto Acuna Almelo, Alexander Arai-Swale, Cameron Carpenter. Among the 600 or so compositions of Camille Saint-Saëns, who died on December 16, 1921 in Algiers, the whimsical suite "The Carnival of the Animals" remains his most famous work.