My daughter is currently practicing a piano version of *Danse Macabre* by Saint-Saens (so I have it in my head). The other day, I heard a baroque piece for violin and recorder. At one point, the violin played what sounded to me to be the opening violin melody of the Saint Saens; same dissonance, same rhythm, etc. Of course I failed to capture the coordinates of the piece. Does anyone out there recognize this so as to be able to identify the baroque piece?
I guess that several passages of the Sonata for violin and continuo in G minor “Il trillo del diavolo” (“Devil’s trill”) by the Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini (1692-1770) can resemble the opening of Saint-Saëns’ “Danse Macabre”.
