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"Danse Macabre" Symphonic Poem in G minor - Camille Saint Saëns

"Danse Macabre" Symphonic Poem in G minor - Camille Saint Saëns

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Title"Danse Macabre" Symphonic Poem in G minor - Camille Saint Saëns
AuthorSergio Cánovas
Duration7:15
File FormatMP3 / MP4
Original URL https://youtube.com/watch?v=67ru-LzP2jU

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Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Bela Banfalvi.

I - Mouvement modéré de valse - [Fugue] - Animato - Tempo I: 0:00

Saint Saëns' "Danse Macabre" was composed in 1872 as a song for voice and piano on a poem by Henri Cazalis. However, since singers found it too difficult, he decided to rework the material in 1874 into a symphonic poem, replacing the vocal part with a solo violin. The work was premiered on January 24 of 1875, at the Théâtre du Châtelet, with Édouard Colonne as the conductor.

It had a mixed reception and many considered it in poor taste. However, it soon became extremely popular, to the point of being present in popular culture. According to legend, the 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 (represented by the solo violin). His skeletons dance for him until the rooster crows at dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.

The piece opens with the harp playing the note D twelve times, the twelve strokes of midnight, which is accompanied by soft chords from strings. The solo violin enters playing the tritone, which was known as the "diabolus in musica" (the Devil in music) during the Medieval and Baroque eras, consisting of an A and an E♭ in an example of scordatura tuning, the violinist's E string has actually been tuned down to an E♭ to create the dissonant tritone. A nervous first theme is heard on solo flute, followed by the second theme, a descending scale on the solo violin which is accompanied by soft chords from the string section. The xylophone imitates the sounds of rattling bones, followed by a development.

A fuge takes place, followed by a deeply lyrical recapitulation of the second theme. The music then becomes more energetic, with a direct quote played by the woodwinds of the Dies irae, a Gregorian chant from the Requiem that is melodically related to the work's second theme. After this section the piece returns to the first and second themes and reaches an intense climax. Then there is an abrupt break, and the following coda represents the dawn breaking (a cockerel's crow, played by the oboe) and the skeletons returning to their graves. A brief solo of the violinist leads us to a modest ending.

Picture: "Danse Macabre" by the American painter Dariusz Labuzek.

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