Camille saint saens danse macabre ballet

Camille saint-saëns danse macabre

La danse Macabre est devenue une des œuvres les plus célèbres de Saint-Saëns, souvent jouée lors de soirées d’Halloween.


camille saint saens danse macabre ballet

Danse macabre poem

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Danse macabre composer

Saint-Saëns evokes (using the xylophone) the midnight cavorting of skeletons in a churchyard, interrupted by the first crowing of the cock announcing the dawn.

Camille saint-saëns the carnival of the animals
Saint-Saëns used the xylophone melody from Danse Macabre as a parody in his later work Carnival of the Animals, where the theme is used in the movement ‘Fossils’.