Entertainment Music The Best Scary Classical Music for Halloween Share PINTEREST Email Print Oil painting: Public Domain/Wikimedia Commons Music Classical Music Lyrics Basics Operas Rock Music Pop Music Alternative Music Country Music Folk Music Rap & Hip Hop Rhythm & Blues World Music Punk Music Heavy Metal Jazz Latin Music Oldies Learn More By Aaron Green Music Expert B.A., Classical Music and Opera, Westminster Choir College of Rider University Aaron M. Green is an expert on classical music and music history, with more than 10 years of both solo and ensemble performance experience. our editorial process Aaron Green Updated March 15, 2017 No one ever said classical music is all rainbows and sunshine. In fact, there is plenty of dark and brooding classical music out there if you know where to look. Lucky for you, I've done a bit of searching for you and put together a small, but exciting, list of haunting classical music. Beware! You mustn't listen to this music alone in the dark (unless you're strange and unusual). For you social butterflies, if you want to throw a truly frightening and memorable Halloween party, use the scary classical music below in combination with your Halloween decor and typical spooky sound effects. Recommended Classical Music for Halloween Allan Pettersson - Symphony No. 7 (listen on YouTube) Bach - Toccata and Fugue in d minor, BWV 565 (listen on YouTube) Bartok - Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta (mvmt. 3, adagio) (listen on YouTube) Chopin - Marche Funebre (listen on YouTube) George Crumb - Vox balaenae (listen on YouTube) Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King (listen on YouTube) Ligeti - Atmospheres (listen on YouTube) Mozart - Requiem "Dies Irae" (listen on YouTube) Mussorgsky - A Night on Bald Mountain (listen on YouTube) Orff - Carmina Burana, O Fortuna (listen on YouTube) Prokofiev - Dance of the Knights (listen on YouTube) Prokofiev - Etude Op.2 No.1 (listen on YouTube) Rachmaninoff - Prelude, Op. 3 No. 2 In C Sharp Minor (listen on YouTube) Saint-Saëns - Dance Macabre (listen on YouTube) Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10, mvmt. 2 (listen on YouTube) Tchaikovsky - The Witch, Op. 39 No. 20 (listen on YouTube) Webern - Variations Op. 27 - Ruhig fliessend (listen on YouTube)