Danse Macabre
Danse Macabre is an orchestral poem composed by Camille Saint-Saëns, alluding to the medieval allegory of Death summoning skeletons to dance. The artwork was expanded and reworked by replacing the vocal line with a solo violin in 1874, and it premiered one year later. Danse Macabre explores themes of death, mortality, and supernaturality.
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The Macabre Dance is a fresco by Giacomo Borlone de Buschis, depicting the Danse Macabre theme, which symbolizes inevitability and equality of death across all social ranks. The artwork combines haunting imagery with moral and philosophical reflections on life and death, common during the end of the Middle Ages.
