If you really want to throw a truly scary and memorable Halloween party, use classical music in combination with your Halloween decor and your typical scary music soundtracks of howling wolves and creaking doors. Below, you will find my recommended track listing of scary classical music along with YouTube videos for you to watch and listen.
Recommended Classical Music for Halloween
- Allan Pettersson - Symphony No. 7
- Rachmaninoff - Prelude, Op. 3 No. 2 In C Sharp Minor
- Rachmaninoff - Etude Tableaux Op.33 No.5
- Prokofiev - Etude Op.2 No.1
- Chopin - Marche Funebre
- Prokofiev - Dance of the Knights
Previously Recommended Classical Music for Halloween
- Bach - Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565
- Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King
- Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (mvmt. 3, adagio)
- Mozart - Requiem "Dies Irae"
- Orff - Carmina Burana, O Fortuna
- Webern - Variations Op. 27 - Ruhig fliessend
- Mussorgsky - A Night on Bald Mountain
- George Crumb - Vox balaenae
- Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10, mvmt. 2
- Saint-Saëns - Dance Macabre
