[ʃaʁl kamij sɛ̃sɑ̃s] (1835 – 1921)
Danse macabre (dance of death)
A tone poem for orchestra, it is based on an old French superstition, that "Death" appears at midnight every year on Halloween.
Death calls forth the dead from their graves to dance their dance of death for him while he plays his fiddle (represented by a violin).
His skeletons dance for him until the rooster crows at dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.
* skeletons dance
The piece opens with a harp playing a single note, D, twelve times (the twelve strokes of midnight) which is accompanied by soft chords from the string section.....
* humans playing the piano and strings
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