In 1877, French composer Camille Saint-SaΓ«ns (Danse Macabre) wrote opera Samson and Delilah to a FrenchΒ librettoΒ byΒ Ferdinand Lemaire and based on a biblical tale.Β Bacchanale is a musical piece from that opera where DelilahΒ leads a provocative dance to tauntΒ Samson.
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Camille Saint-SaΓ«ns: Danse Macabre
Charles-Camille Saint-SaΓ«ns (1835 – 1921) was a French composer known for a wide range of Romantic-era musical work, including The Second Piano Concerto (1868), and The Carnival of the Animals (1886). Danse Macabre, which premiered in 1875, is a poem for orchestra, primarily based on play Danza macΓ bra by Camillo Antona-Travers. It is a vivid, transportive and unforgettable musical piece which evokes Death appearing at midnight on Halloween, calling the dead from their graves to join his “dance of skeletons” while he plays the fiddle.
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