Camille Saint-Saëns - The Waters (Prelude from Le déluge), Op. 45 for Flute and Piano, revised and edited by Ervin Monroe. Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921) was a remarkably versatile French composer whose elegant craftsmanship, clarity of form, and refined orchestration made him one of the leading figures of French music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.