A condensed list of Composers and thier most famous works (for suggested listening)
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Middle Ages:
Vaqueiras:
Renaissance:
Josquin:
- Missa La sol fa re mi, Kyrie
- Ave maria virga serena
- Mille regretz
Susato:
Baroque:
Bach:
- Cantana no. 80,
- Contrapunctus I, Art of the Fugue
- Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
- Rejouissance, from Orchestral Suite No. 4
- Toccata and Fugue in D minor
- Orchestral Suite no. 3, Air
- Prelude and Fugue No. 24 in B minor
- Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C minor
- Suite no. 1 for Unaccompanied Cello
Handel:
- Messiah
- There were shepherds
- Glory to God
- Hallelujah Chorus
- I know that my Redeemer liveth
- Aria, Molto voglio from Rinaldo
Vivaldi
Classical:
Beethoven:
- Symponies 1-9
- Piano Sonata No. 14, "Moonlight,"
- Op. 125 Choral 13:44
- Piano Concertos
- No. 5 in E flat major, Op. 73
- Piano Sonatas
- String Quartet No. 1 in F major, Op. 18, 10:36
Haydn:
- String Quartet, Op. 76
- The Creation
- String Quartet No. 29 in G major, Op. 33
- Trumpet Concerto, E-flat, 3rd mvmt
- Military Symphony No. 100, II 01:09
- London Symphony No. 104
Mozart:
- Marriage of Figaro
- Eine kleine Nachtmusik
- Piano Concerto No. 17, K. 453, first mvmt
- Requiem
- The Magic Flute
Romantic:
Berlioz:
Bizet:
Brahms:
Chopin:
- Nocturne in C minor, Op. 48
- Polonaise
- Mazurka
Dvorák:
- Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96, "American"
- New World Symphony
- Slavonic Dances
Liszt:
- Liebestraum No.3 in A flat-major Op.63
- The Little Bell (La campanella)
THE MIGHTY FIVE:
Borodin
- In the Steppes of Central Asia
- Polovstian Dances
Mussorgsky:
- Pictures at an Exhibition
- Boris Gudonov
Rimsky-Korsakov
- Sheherazade Suite
- Capriccio espagnol
- Russian Easter Festival Overture
- The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Christmas Night, other operas
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Schubert:
- Erlking
- Die Forelle
- Heidenroslein, D. 257 01:58
- Standchen, D. 889 03:04
- Schwanengesang, D. 957 - Der Atlas (Heine) 02:24
Schumann:
- Dichterliebe
- Im wunderschoenen Monat Mai
Tchaikovsky:
- Nutcracker
- Waltz of the Flowers
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
- Trepak (Russian Dance)
- Swan Lake
- Sleeping Beauty
- 1812 Overture
- Eugene Onegin
Verdi
- La donne e mobile
- Rigoletto, Quartet, Un di, se ben rammentomi
- La Traviata, Libiamo ne'lieta
- Requiem
Wagner:
- Das Rheingold (Ring Cycle)
- Die Walkure (Ring Cycle)
- Siegfried (Ring Cycle)
- Gotterdammerung (Ring Cycle)
- The Flying Dutchman
- Tristan und Isolde
20th Century
Bartok:
Britten:
Copland:
Debussy:
Prokofiev:
Rachmaninoff:
Ravel:
-
Bolero
-
Rhapsodie espagnole
Stravinsky:
Richard Strauss:
- Don Juan
- Don Quixote
- Salome's Dance
- Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks