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Halloween can be many things. It can be fun, lighthearted, scary and frightening. It can also be elegant. Elegant? Well, yes actually.

Picture this: You are dressed in a black ball gown (or tux, for you guys). You enter a setting akin to Dracula’s castle in Transylvania; deep red rose centerpieces on black tablecloths, spider web-laden chandeliers, low light with candles everywhere, and a glass of blood red wine in your hand. Nice, huh?

Now start playing Monster Mash in the background. Ruins the mood doesn’t it?

Don’t get me wrong, I love fun Halloween Party Music (Check out this list of my favorite Halloween Party Songs) but sometimes you are trying to set a scene, and Thriller and Purple People Eater just don’t cut it. So if your Halloween party is shooting for more “wine and cheese” versus “beer and pretzels”, try a few of these Scary Classical Music Selections that are perfect for Halloween:

16 Classical Music Selections for an Elegant Halloween Party

1. Bach – Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565
2. Brahms – Begräbnisgesang
3. Camille Saint-Saens – Danse Macabre, Op. 40
4. Gluck - Dance of the Furies
5. Grieg – In the Hall of the Mountain King
6. Liszt – Mephisto Waltz
7. Mendelssohn - First Walpurgis Night
8. Mozart – Requiem “Dies Irae”
9. Mussorgsky – A Night on Bald Mountain
10. Orff – Carmina Burana, O Fortuna
11. Paganini – Witches Dance
12. Grieg – Småtrold (Puck)
13. Rachmaninoff – The Bells, Lento Lugubre
14. Tartini – Sonata for violin & continuo in G minor, “The Devil’s Trill”
15. Webern – Variations Op. 27 – Ruhig fliessend
16. Williams – Devil’s Dance (composed by the same guy who did the music for Star Wars!)

If you would rather not hunt down the music, Devil’s Dance and Classics from the Crypt are fantastic CDs that will set the mood perfectly.

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