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Danse macabreS. 555

Camille Saint-Saëns

  • Difficulty 9
  • G minor
  • 22 min
  • 670 measures

Liszt's piano transcription of Danse macabre, the symphonic poem Saint-Saëns wrote in 1874: Death plays his fiddle at midnight and the skeletons dance a waltz in G minor until dawn. Liszt made the transcription in 1876. This edition follows a Durand print from the 1876 plate and includes Liszt's ossias, among them a short ending that closes the piece early.

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