Camille Saint Saens Danse Macabre for voice and piano (audio + sheet music)

Danse Macabre, Op. 40, is a tone poem for orchestra, written in 1874 by French composer Camille SaintSaëns. It started out in 1872 as an art song for voice and piano with a French text by the poet Henri Cazalis, which is based on an old French superstition. The text comes from the poem Égalité, part of Jean Lahor s (a pseudonym of Henri Cazalis) l Illusion. An English translation of the poem follows: Zig, zig, zig, Death in cadence, Striking a tomb with his heel, Death at midnight play br, br,