Suggestions for Halloween Pipe Organ Music?

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A fellow church organist and I are considering doing a "Halloween Concert" on the pipe organ and piano to raise money to restore the Steinway Piano at our church. We're looking for some fun suggestions for Halloween appropriate pieces. Doesn't absolutely have to be classical. (Nothing too too crazy difficult though - we'll have to learn all these in addition to the mountains of music we learn for church each week! LOL) We're both fairly proficient players. (For instance, we can handle the Toccata and Fugue in Dm. The list I've started is ...

Toccata and Fugue in Dm (Bach)
Phantom of the Opera Overture (Lloyd Webber)
Prelude in Cm, Op. 28 (Chopin)

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Funeral March of a Marionette by Charles Gounod, Greenwich Witch by Zez Confrey, and No. 8 in Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition for the Piano--No. 8 is "Catacombae (Sepulcrum Romanum) with Con Mortuis in Lingua Mortua."  Please have an uplifting second half!

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Halloween is such a fun Christian holiday, isn't it.

... perhaps you'd be better of thinking along the lines of "Reformation Day" 10/31 was the day that Martin Luther posted his 95 Thesis on the doors of the Schlosskirche in Wittenberg.

Ein Feste Burg is more appropriate than your second and third suggestions, and the first is only appropriate if you as a concert piece in a church setting

Suggestions for Halloween Pipe Organ Music?

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