Mysterious Dracula music

There is a piece of music so famous, that you will know it immediately. You won’t know its name, or its composer, but you will be immediately filled with images of dread, horror and Dracula. We don’t even know for sure who wrote it, but its many uses have made it famous.

It was probably written between 1704 and 1740 and it was probably by Johann Sebastian Bach, but even in his lifetime it was largely ignored. But there is enough evidence it may not even have been by Bach, so its origins are truly as mysterious as it sounds! A hundred years later it was performed and published for the first know time, mostly through the efforts of another famous composer, Felix Mendelssohn.

But it wasn’t until the 20th century that it really started to break in the wider world. It was used in the 1931 film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and the 1934 film The Black Cat. Disney’s classic Fantasia in 1940 made the piece even more famous. Now it is used in all kinds of horror, comedy and more!

Check out the link today — you can hear this song in several audio versions! Another part of the power of Wikipedia!