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Mood Music: Classical Music Playlist for Halloween
If you're looking for some Classical music to set the mood for your festive evenings, here are a few Halloween-y pieces. The clip above is the Ave Santani theme from the film the Omen by Jerry Goldsmith.
Click on the titles listed after the jump to listen to more. Happy Halloween!
- Mussorgsky: Songs and Dances of Death
- Franz Liszt: Totentanz
- Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre
- Penderecki: Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima
- Sergei Rachmaniniff: Isle of the Dead
- Bela Bartok: Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celeste (III. Adagio)
- Shostakovich: String Quartet No. 8 in C Minor
- Anton Webern: Variations Op. 27
- Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
- Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (March to the Scaffold)
- Johannes Brahms: Begraebnisgesang
- Frederic Chopin: Sonata No. 2 Op. 35(Funeral March)
- Prokofiev: Suggestion Diabolique
- Tartini: Sonata in G Minor (Devil's Trill)
- Stravinsky: Histoire du Soldat (Danse du Diable)
- Gyorgy Ligeti: L'escalier du Diable (Devil's Staircase)
- Alexander Scriabin: "Black Mass" Sonata, Op. 68
- Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (Infernal Dance)
- Charles Gounod: Funeral March of A Marionette
- Bach: Toccata and Fugue for organ in D Minor
- Dukas: The Sorceror's Apprentice
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