“Ah, I have heard it somewhere”, you might utter this sentence since the first note of Camille Saint-Saëns played. The impressive melody of this work is so famous that it is put into in several dramas, the background music of firework competitions, Halloween movies and even in short clips on social networks.
A French composer named Camille Saint-Saëns – a famous musician in the Édouard Colonne is the father of this suspenseful classical music work. Danse Macabre begins with twelve-midnight chimes on a harp leading listeners to the melody in the interval of the devil.
The piece reaches grandeur when appealing to the listener’s imagination with the images of the dead emerging from their tomb and dance in the moonlight. The departed souls are all dancing with each other without any social gap: a poor beggar with a wealthy lady, a nobleman with a withered woman – no difference when all is death.