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100 Greatest Classical Music Works
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Classical Music Works are ranked for their innovation and influence, as well as their aesthetic importance, historical significance and lasting popularity.
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Edited By: Guy
Last Updated 06-13-04
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1. Symphony No. 9 "Choral" – Ludwig Van Beethoven
2. Mass In B Minor – Johann Sebastian Bach
3. Symphony No. 6 "Pathetique" – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
4. Symphony No. 41 "Jupiter" – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
5. Rite Of Spring – Igor Stravinsky
6. Symphony No. 9 – Gustav Mahler
7. The Ring of the Nibelungs – Richard Wagner
8. Symphony No. 3 "Eroica" – Ludwig Van Beethoven
9. Pictures At An Exhibition – Modest Mussorgsky (orch. by Maurice Ravel)
10. Symphony No. 5 – Ludwig Van Beethoven
11. Symphony No. 9 "From The New World" – Antonin Dvorak
12. Piano Concerto No. 5 "Emperor" – Ludwig Van Beethoven
13. Also Sprach Zarathustra – Richard Strauss
14. Violin Concerto – Ludwig Van Beethoven
15. St Matthew's Passion – Johann Sebastian Bach
16. Piano Concerto No. 2 – Sergei Rachmaninoff
17. Symphony No. 4 – Johannes Brahms
18. Piano Concerto – Robert Schumann
19. Symphonie Fantastique – Hector Berlioz
20. Piano Sonata No. 2 – Frederic Chopin
21. Symphony No. 9 – Anton Bruckner
22. Piano Concerto No. 1 – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
23. Requiem – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
24. The Planets – Gustav Holst
25. Symphony No. 8 "Unfinished" – Franz Schubert
26. Piano Sonata – Franz Liszt
27. Aida – Giuseppe Verdi
28. Messiah – George Frideric Handel
29. Piano Concerto No. 2 – Johannes Brahms
30. Messa Da Requiem – Giuseppe Verdi
31. Scheherazade – Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov
32. The Four Seasons – Antonio Vivaldi
33. Enigma Variations – Edward Elgar
34. Don Giovanni – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
35. The Goldberg Variations – Johann Sebastian Bach
36. Symphony No. 40 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
37. Symphony No. 7 – Ludwig Van Beethoven
38. Symphony No. 94 "Surprise" – Franz Joseph Haydn
39. Piano Concerto No. 20 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
40. Symphony No. 5 – Dmitri Shostakovich
41. Firebird Suite – Igor Stravinsky
42. Piano Concerto No. 2 – Franz Liszt
43. Lohengrin – Richard Wagner
44. Violin Concerto – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
45. Piano Quintet "The Trout" – Franz Schubert
46. Cello Concerto – Antonin Dvorak
47. Symphony No. 1 – Gustav Mahler
48. Appalachian Spring – Aaron Copland
49. Madama Butterfly – Giacomo Puccini
50. Missa Solemnis – Ludwig Van Beethoven
51. Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" – Ludwig Van Beethoven
52. Serenade No. 13 "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
53. Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini – Sergei Rachmaninoff
54. Symphony No. 5 – Serge Prokofiev
55. La Mer – Claude Debussy
56. Symphony No. 2 – Jean Sibelius
57. Don Quixote – Richard Strauss
58. Piano Concerto No. 2 – Frederic Chopin
59. The Barber Of Seville – Gioacchino Rossini
60. Symphony No. 5 – Ralph Vaughan Williams
61. Symphony No. 4 – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
62. Falstaff – Giuseppe Verdi
63. 24 Preludes – Frederic Chopin
64. Symphony No. 3 "Scotch" – Felix Mendelssohn
65. Carmen – Georges Bizet
66. Symphony of Psalms – Igor Stravinsky
67. Canon – Johann Pachelbel
68. Toccata and Fugue – Johann Sebastian Bach
69. Boris Godunov – Modest Mussorgsky
70. Romeo And Juliet – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
71. Symphony No. 2 – Johannes Brahms
72. Otello – Giuseppe Verdi
73. Piano Concerto No. 21 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
74. Water Music – George Frideric Handel
75. Piano Concerto No. 3 – Sergei Rachmaninoff
76. Symphony No. 4 – Charles Ives
77. Carmina Burana – Carl Orff
78. Symphony No. 35 "Haffner" – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
79. "Little" Fugue – Johann Sebastian Bach
80. Piano Concerto No. 4 – Ludwig Van Beethoven
81. The Marriage Of Figaro – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
82. Symphony No. 6 "Pastorale" – Ludwig Van Beethoven
83. Carnavel – Robert Schumann
84. A Midsummer Night's Dream – Felix Mendelssohn
85. Symphony No. 9 "The Great" – Franz Schubert
86. Symphony No. 3 "Rhenish" – Robert Schumann
87. Violin Concerto – Felix Mendelssohn
88. Hungarian Rhapsodies – Franz Liszt
89. Tristan Und Isolde – Richard Wagner
90. String Quartet No. 14 – Ludwig Van Beethoven
91. Night On Bald Mountain – Modest Mussorgsky
92. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 – Edvard Grieg
93. Concerto for Orchestra – Bela Bartok
94. Symphony No. 5 – Jean Sibelius
95. Verklaerte Nacht – Arnold Schoenberg
96. Symphony No. 1 – Dmitri Shostakovich
97. Clarinet Quintet "Stadler" – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
98. German Requiem – Johannes Brahms
99. Piano Sonata No. 15 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
100. Violin Concerto – Johannes Brahms
101. Symphony No. 4 – Gustav Mahler
102. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis – Ralph Vaughan Williams
103. 24 Caprices – Niccolo Paganini
104. Fantasy in C major – Robert Schumann
105. String Quintet No. 1 "Spring" – Johannes Brahms
106. Symphony No. 7 – Anton Bruckner
107. Faust – Charles Gounod
108. Symphony No. 3 – Johannes Brahms
109. Symphony No. 8 – Anton Bruckner
110. Violin Concerto No. 1 – Max Bruch
111. Symphony No. 3 "Organ" – Camille Saint Saens
112. La Boheme – Giacomo Puccini
113. Symphony No. 5 – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
114. Requiem – Hector Berlioz
115. Rhapsody In Blue – George Gershwin
116. The Royal Fireworks Music – George Frideric Handel
117. Symphony No. 104 "London" – Franz Joseph Haydn
118. Prelude A L'apres Midi D'un Faune – Claude Debussy
119. Fur Elise – Ludwig Van Beethoven
120. Requiem – Maurice Durufle
121. Symphony No. 5 – Gustav Mahler
122. The Swan Lake – Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
123. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 – Johann Sebastian Bach
124. Petrouchka – Igor Stravinsky
125. Symphony No. 10 – Dmitri Shostakovich
126. Romance No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra – Ludwig Van Beethoven
127. The Blue Danube – Johann Strauss II
128. Symphony No. 2 – Alexander Borodin
129. Adagio For Strings – Samuel Barber
130. Symphony No. 100 "Military" – Franz Joseph Haydn
131. Piano Concerto No. 1 – Franz Liszt
132. War Requiem – Benjamin Britten
133. Symphony No. 1 – Edward Elgar
134. Symphony No. 4 – Jean Sibelius
135. Requiem – Gabriel Faure
136. The Sorcerer's Apprentice – Paul Dukas
137. Poem of Ecstacy – Alexander Scriabin
138. Symphony No. 3 "Pastoral" – Ralph Vaughan Williams
139. Tosca – Giacomo Puccini
140. Symphony No. 4 "Italian" – Felix Mendelssohn
141. Parsifal – Richard Wagner
142. Piano Concerto No. 1 – Frederic Chopin
143. Il Trovatore – Giuseppe Verdi
144. Symphony in D minor – Cesar Franck
145. Violin Concerto – Niccolo Paganini
146. Violin Concerto – Edward Elgar
147. Symphonie Espangole – Edouard Lalo
148. Scherzo No. 2 – Frederic Chopin
149. String Quartet No. 3 – Robert Schumann
150. Trois Gymnopedies – Erik Satie
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1. Herbert Von Karajan
2. Leonard Bernstein
3. Wilhelm Furtwangler
4. Karl Bohm
5. George Szell
6. Otto Klemperer
7. Claudio Abbado
8. Eugene Ormandy
9. George Solti
10. Bruno Walter
11. Neville Marriner
12. John Eliot Gardner
13. Carlos Kleiber
14. Michael Tilson Thomas
15. Fritz Reiner
16. Leopold Stokowski
17. Colin Davis
18. Charles Dutoit
19. Adrian Boult
20. Bernard Haitink
21. Andre Previn
22. James Levine
23. Rafael Kubelick
24. Christoph Von Dohnanyi
25. Leonard Slatkin
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1. Vladimir Horowitz
2. Arthur Rubinstein
3. Sergei Rachmaninoff
4. Joseph Hoffman
5. Sviatoslav Richter
6. Van Cliburn
7. Arthur Schnabel
8. Claudio Arrau
9. Alfred Cortot
10. Vladimir Ashkenazy
11. Maurizio Pollini
12. Alfred Brendel
13. Martha Argerich
14. Glenn Gould
15. Emil Gilels
16. Georges Cziffra
17. Aldo Ciccolini
18. Leif Ove Andsnes
19. Krystian Zimerman
20. Jean-Yves Thibaudet
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1. Jascha Heifetz
2. Yehudi Menuhin
3. Itzhak Perlman
4. Nathan Milstein
5. Joseph Szigeti
6. Isaac Stern
7. Salvatore Accardo
8. Maxim Vengerov
9. Joshua Bell
10. Anne-Sophie Mutter
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