Favorite Spooky Classical Pieces?

[ALynn]

We have a user created spooky music thread, but how about a list of our favorite spooky pieces from classical (or any other!) literature?

A few to get us started, some quite obvious:

Night on Bald Mountain - Mussorgsky
Danse Macabre - St. Seans
Scherzo from Symphony # 7 - Mahler
Last movement of the Symphonie Fantastique - Berlioz

I won't go any further so that there are a few for others to add...

[DarwinKopp]

Three of my favourites:

Gounod - Funeral March of a Marionette
Moussorgsky - Catacombs from Pictures at an Exhibition
Holst - Mars, the Bringer of War from the Planets

[chambermusic]

Don't forget "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Paul Dukas

David

[Pingu]

Intake of Breath by Jonathan Rutherford - for violin, soprano, and saw.

Black Angels - George Crumb

[trentpmcd]

Liszt Totentanz

This may seem strange, but I think things like Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor make great Halloween music. I also think plain chant is the scariest style of music ever.

[Gesticulator01]

The slow movement of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik was very disturbing in 'Alien'. Not so disturbing on its own.

[kanazo]

-Rachmaninoff's Isle of Dead
-Mozart's piano concerto in d- 1st movement and Don Giovanni overture (introduction)
-Beethoven's piano trio in D (Ghost) second movement, scherzo from 5th symphony, 9th symphony 1st movement
-Bruckner's 9th symphony opening of 1st movement
-A lot of Mahler's (slow movement of 1st symphony, first theme group of 1st movement of 3rd symphony, almost the entire 6th symphony, scherzo in 7th, landler (2nd movement) of 9th)

[reberclark]

Lots of Edgar Varese and Gyorgy Ligeti, and don't forget the incredibly lonely and spooky Gayne's Adagio from Khachaturian's "Gayne Ballet Suite."

[Renan Fersy]

Very good Tips here guys!!

There is also some Bartok haunting pieces...like the Wooden Prince...there are some very spooky passages

Best hauntings!!

[Jon Bryson]

Alfred Schnittke's "Faust Cantata"

Jon