編曲者 | Jose Schyns(ジョセ・シンス) |
作曲者 | Camille Saint-Saens(カミーユ・サン=サーンス) |
シリーズ | 輸入オリジナル |
編成概要 | 吹奏楽 |
解説 | Danse macabre is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by the French composer Camille Saint-Sa ns. It is in the key of G minor. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French, which is based on an old French superstition. According to legend, ”Death” appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death calls forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (here represented by a solo violin). His skeletons dance for him, when they must return to their graves until the next year. |