When did Saint-Saens write Danse Macabre?
When did Saint-Saëns write Danse Macabre?
1874
Danse macabre/Composed
What movie uses Danse macabre?
The piece briefly appears in the 1993 western film Tombstone. The piece is used for the 1999 Disney’s animated short Hansel and Gretel. Which later appeared in 2002 Disney’s direct-to-video animated film Mickey’s House of Villains.
What movie uses Danse Macabre?
Is Danse Macabre a tone poem?
Danse macabre is one of four tone poems Saint-Saëns composed in the 1870s, all inspired to some degree by examples from Franz Liszt (whose own Totentanz dates from 1849) and exploring both Liszt’s thematic transformation concept and novel instrumentation.
Where did Dance of Death originate?
The concept probably gained momentum in the late Middle Ages as a result of the obsession with death inspired by an epidemic of the Black Death in the mid-14th century and the devastation of the Hundred Years’ War (1337–1453) between France and England.
When did Camille Saint Saens write the Danse Macabre?
Camille Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, Op. 40, was composed in 1874 as an orchestral tone poem based on a French legend about Death appearing every Halloween at midnight.
Who is the composer of Danse Macabre?
Danse macabre, Op. 40 by French composer Camille Saint-Saëns is an art song for voice and piano (first performed in 1872) with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis which is based in an old French superstition.
When did Henri Cazalis write the Danse Macabre?
When Saint-Saëns initially wrote his Danse macabre in 1872, it was actually an art song. Poet Henri Cazalis wrote lines like, “The bones of the dancers are heard to crack,” but two years later Saint-Saëns replaced the voice with the violin and the dissonance amped up its tension.
How did Danse Macabre become associated with Halloween?
Danse macabre has become one of a number of classical pieces associated with Halloween. Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain is another. From menacing and scary, Danse macabre has become a gateway piece to introduce schoolchildren to classical music. Here is a video PBS created in 1980 for use in elementary school music classes.
