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Medieval Composers
The plus (+) sign indicates "essential" pieces.
ALFONSO X "El Sabio"
Cantigas de Santa Maria
CICONIA, Johannes
Motets, Virelais, Ballate and Madrigals
GREGORIAN CHANT
+ Chants: Dies Irae
HILDEGARD von Bingen
+ Symphoniae (Responsoria, Antiphons, Sequences)
LANDINI, Francesco
Viralai, Madrigals and Ballata
MACHAUT, Guillaume de
+ Notre-Dame Mass
+ Chansons
PEROTIN
+ Sequences
VITRY, Philippe de
Chansons and Motets
WOLKENSTEIN, Oswald von
Ballads and Songs
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Renaissance Composers
The plus (+) sign indicates "essential" pieces.
AGRICOLA, Alexander
Chansons
Sacred Choral Music
ALLEGRI, Georgio
Miserere Mei, Deus
ARCADELT, Jacob
Madrigals
BRUMEL, Antoine
Mass "Et ecce terra motus" (Earthquake Mass)
BUSNOYS, Antoine
Sacred Choral Music (In hydraulis, etc.)
BYRD, William
Consort Music (Fantasias, In Nomines, etc.)
+ Keyboard Music (Pavans and Galliards)
Sacred Choral Music (Mass in 4 Parts, etc.)
+ The Battle (Suite for Harpsichord)
CABEZON, Antonio de
Organ Music
DES PREZ, Josquin
+ Masses (Pange Lingua, Ave Maris Stella, etc.)
+ Motets (+ Ave Maria gratia plena, etc.)
DOWLAND, John
Ayres, Lute Music
Lachrimae for Viol Consort
Hymns, Chansons
DUFAY, Guillaume
Masses (Missa Se la face ay pale, etc.)
Motets (Alma redemptoris mater, etc)
GABRIELI, Giovanni
+ Canzoni for Brass Choirs
+ Intonations
GESUALDO, Don Carlo
Madrigals
Tenebrae Responsories
GIBBONS, Orlando
Church Music (Anthems and Services)
Fantasias for Viol Consort
GOMBERT, Nicholas
Sacred Choral Music
ISAAC, Heinrich
Sacred Choral Music
JANEQUIN, Clément
Chansons
LA RUE, Pierre de
+ Requiem
LASSUS, Orlandus
+ Madrigals
+ Motets
Requiem
MONTEVERDI, Claudio
Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
+ La Favola d' Orfeo (opera)
+ L'Incoronazione di Poppea (opera)
+ Madrigals
+ Masses
+ Vespro della Beata Vergine
MORALES, Christobal de
Masses (Requiem, etc.)
OCKEGHEM, Johannes
+ Requiem
Masses (Missa Prolationum, etc.)
Chansons
PALESTRINA, Giovanni Pierluigi da
Motets
Hodie Christus natus est (Christmas Mass)
+ Masses (+ Missa Papae Marcelli, etc.)
PEÑALOSA, Francisco de
Sacred Choral Music (Masses, Motets)
PHILIPS, Peter
Motets
Keyboard Music
PRAETORIUS, Micheal
+ Terpsichore
SWEELINCK, Jan Pieterszoon
Keyboard Music
TALLIS, Thomas
+ Sacred Choral Music (Spem in alium, Lamentations of Jeremiah, Masses)
TAVERNER, John
Festal Masses (Gloria Tibi Trinitas, O Michael, Corona Spinea)
TYE, Christopher
Sacred Choral Music
Consort Music
VICTORIA, Tomás Luis de
Motets
Masses (O Magnum Mysterium, etc)
Requiem "Officium defunctorum"
WEELKES, Thomas
Sacred Choral Music
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Baroque Composers
The plus (+) sign indicates "essential" pieces.
ABEL, Carl Friedrich
Symphonies Op. 7
ALBINONI, Tomaso
Adagio in G minor
Concertos a cinque Op. 5
+ Concertos for Oboe Op. 7 and 9
ARNE, Thomas Augustine
Keyboard Concertos
Symphonies
BACH, Johann Sebastian
+ The Art of Fugue BWV 1080
+ Brandenburg Concertos BWV 1046-1051
Cantatas (BWV 4, 78, 82, 140, 202)
Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue for Harpsichord BWV 903
+ Concertos for Harpsichord(s) (BWV 1052, +1056)
+ Concertos for Violin BWV 1041, 1042
+ Concerto in D for 2 Violins BWV 1043
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor for Organ BWV 542
+ Goldberg Variations for Harpsichord BWV 988
Inventions for Harpsichord BWV 772-8013-Part Invention #1, BWV 787
Italian Concerto for Harpsichord BWV 971
+ Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (from Cantata BWV 147)
Magnificat BWV 243
+ Mass in B minor BWV 232
Musical Offering BWV 1079
Organ Music (Choral Preludes, Toccatas and Fugues)
Partitas for Harpsichord BWV 825-830
+ Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor for Organ BWV 582
+ St. Matthew Passion BWV 244
Sonatas and Partitas for Violin BWV 1001-1006
Sonatas and Partita for Flute and Continuo BWV 1030-1035, 1013
Suites for Cello BWV 1007-1012
Suites for Harpsichord (English and French) BWV 806-817
+ Suites for Orchestra BWV 1066-1069
Toccatas for Harpsichord BWV 910-916
Trio Sonatas BWV 525-530 and 1036-1040
+ Toccata and Fugue in D minor for Organ BWV 565
Well-Tempered Clavier BWV 846-893
BIBER, Heinrich Ignaz
Battalia
+ Sonatas "Rosary" for Violin and Continuo
Sonatas "Fidicinium Sacro-Profanum"
BOYCE, William
Symphonies Op. 2
BUXTEHUDE, Dietrich
Organ Music (Chorales)
CHARPENTIER, Marc-Antoine
Musique de Theatre
Sacred Music (Masses, motets, etc.)
CORELLI, Arcangelo
+ Concerti Grossi Op. 6
Sonatas Op. 5
Trio Sonatas Op. 1-4
CORRETTE, Michel
Organ Concertos Op. 26
COUPERIN, François
d'Apotheose de Corelli
d'Apotheose de Lully
+ Concerts Royaux
Les Gouts-renuis ou Nouveaux
Les Nations
+ Pièces de Clavecin (Nightingale in Love)
DELALANDE, Michel Richard
Caprices (Symphonies for the King)
D'ANGLEBERT, Jean-Henri
Pièces de Clavecin
FASCH, Johann Friederich
Sonatas (Trio and Quadro)
FISCHER, Johann Caspar
Pièces de Clavecin
FRESCOBALDI, Girolamo
Instrumental Canzoni
+ Harpsichord/Organ Music (Toccatas, Variations)
FROBERGER, Johann Jakob
Works for Harpsichord
GAY and PEPUSCH
Beggar's Opera
GEMINIANI, Francesco
Concerti Grossi Op. 3 and 7
GOLDBERG, Johann Gottlieb
Concertos for Harpsichord
GRIGNY, Nicolas de
Organ Music
HANDEL, George Frideric
Acis and Galatea (oratorio)
Arias
Concerti Grossi Op. 3
+ Concerti Grossi Op. 6
Concertos for Organ Op. 4 and 7
Concerto for Organ "Cuckoo and Nightingale"
+ Harmonious Blacksmith for Harpsichord
+ Messiah (oratorio)
Operas (Flavio, Tamerlano)
+ Royal Fireworks Music
Solomon (oratorio)
Sonatas for Flute or Recorder and Harpsichord
Suites for Harpsichord
Susanna (oratorio)
Trio Sonatas Op. 2 and 5
+ Water Music
HEBDEN, John
Concertos Op. 2a
JENKINS, John
Consort Music (Fantasias, Ayres, Pavanes, etc.)
LAWES, William
Chamber Music (Consort Sets, Fantasia-Suites, etc.)
LECLAIR, Jean Marie
Concertos for Violin
Sonatas for Flute or Violin
LOCATELLI, Pietro
Concertos for Violin Op. 3 and 7
Sonatas for Flute Op. 2
Sonatas for Violin Op. 6
LOCKE, Matthew
Anthems
Chamber Music (Consorts)
LOEILLET, Jean Baptiste
Sonatas for Recorder and Harpsichord
LULLY, Jean Baptiste
Atys (opera)
+ Theatre Music (incidental music to plays by Moliere)
MANFREDINI, Francesco
Concerto Grosso Op. 3 #12 "Christmas"
MARAIS, Marin
+ Suites and Pieces for Viola da Gamba
MARCELLO, Alessandro
Concerto for Oboe
Concertos "La Cetra"
MUFFAT, Georg
Concerti Grossi
String Sonatas "Armonico Tributo"
Suites "Florilegium" I and II
Toccatas "Apparatus Musico-Organisticus"
PACHELBEL, Johann
+ Canon and Gigue in D Major
Hexachordum Apollinis for Harpsichord or Organ
+ Organ Music (Choral Preludes, Fantasias, etc.)
PERGOLESI, Giovanni Battista
Stabat Mater
+ La Serva Padrona
PURCELL, Henry
Anthems
+ Dido and Aeneas (opera)
Fantasies
King Arthur (opera)
Rondos
The Fairy Queen (opera)
+ Trio Sonatas for Strings and Continuo
QUANTZ, Johann Joachim
Concertos for Flute
RAMEAU, Jean Philippe
Ballet Music
Les Indes Galantes for Harpsichord
+ Pièces de Clavecin -Le Rappel des Oiseaux-
Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts
Zoroastre (Lyrique Tragedy)
ROMAN, Johan Helmich
Sinfonias
The Drottningholm Music
The Golovin Music
SCARLATTI, Alessandro
Concerti Grossi
SCARLATTI, Domenico
+ Sonatas for Harpsichord -K.1-
SCHÜTZ, Heinrich
Sacred Works (Symphoniae Sacrae, Motets, etc.)
SEIXAS, Jose Antonio
Sonatas for Harpsichord
SOLER, Padre Antonio
Concertos for 2 Organs
Fandango
+ Sonatas for Harpsichord
STANLEY, John
Organ Concertos Op. 10
String Concertos Op. 2
Voluntaries for Organ
TARTINI, Giuseppe
Concertos for Violin
+ Sonata for Violin "Devil's Trill"
TELEMANN, Georg Philipp
Concertos (oboe, flute, violin, viola, etc.)
Essercizii musici
Fantasias for Oboe or Flute
+ Musique de Table
Paris Quartets
Sonatas for Flute, Oboe and Continuo
+ Suite in A minor for Flute and Strings
Sonatas for Recorder and Harpsichord
Water Music Suites ("Hamburg Tides")
TORELLI, Giuseppe
Concertos
VIVALDI, Antonio
+ The Four Seasons
+ Concertos (for violin, bassoon, cello, oboe, flute, etc.)
Gloria
Sonatas for Flute or Oboe and Continuo Op. 13
Sonatas for Cello and Continuo Op. 14
WASSENAER, Unico Wilhelm
Concertos Armonici
WEISS, Sylvius Leopold
Lute Suites and Sonatas
ZELENKA, Jan Dismas
Trio Sonatas
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Classicism Composers
The plus (+) sign indicates "essential" pieces.
BACH, Carl Philipp Emanuel
Magnificat
Concerto for 2 Harpsichords Wq. 46
+ Concertos for Cello Wq. 170-172
Concertos for Flute Wq. 166-169
Concertos for Oboe Wq. 164 and 165
Hamburg Concertos Wq. 43
Sonatas for Flute and Continuo
+ Sonatas for Keyboard
+ Symphonies Wq. 174, 175, 178-183
BACH, Johann Christian
Concertos for Keyboard Opp. 1, 6 and 7
Overtures
Quintets for Flute, Oboe and Strings Op. 11
Symphonies Op. 3
BACH, Wilhelm Friedemann
Concertos for Keyboard and Orchestra
Keyboard Music (Sonatas, Polonaises, Fugues)
Sinfonias
BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van
+ Concertos for Piano (1-3, +4, +5)
+ Concerto for Violin Op. 61
+ Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello Op. 56
Diabelli Variations for Piano Op. 120
Eroica Variations for Piano Op. 35
Fidelio Op. 72 (opera)
+ Missa Solemnis Op. 123
Overtures (Leonore, Coriolan, Egmont. etc.)
+ Quartets #7-16 (+ 8, +14)
Quintet for Piano and Strings Op. 16
Serenade and Trios for Strings Op. 3, 8 and 9
Sextet for Winds Op. 71
+ Sonatas for Piano (All, especially + #8, +Piano Sonata #14, Op.27 #1 (first movement), 21, +23, +29)
Sonatas for Cello and Piano (1-5)
+ Sonatas for Violin and Piano (5, 9)
+ Symphonies (Symphony #1, Op.21, Symphony #2, Op.36, +Symphony #3, Op.55, Symphony #4, Op.60, +Symphony #5, Op.67, +Symphony #6, Op.68, Symphony #7, Op.92, Symphony #8, Op.93, +Symphony #9, Op.125
+ Trios for Piano and Strings (+ #7 "Archduke")
BELLINI, Vincenzo
Norma (opera)
I Puritani (opera)
La Sonnambula (opera)
BOCCHERINI, Luigi
Concertos for Cello
+ Quintets for Guitar and Strings (3, +4, 5, 6)
Quintets for Strings
Symphonies
BOIELDIEU, François-Adrien
Concerto for Harp
CIMAROSA, Domenico
Concerto for Oboe in C Major
DANZI, Franz
Quintets for Winds
DITTERSDORF, Karl Ditters von
Concerto for Contrabass
Symphonies "Metamorphoses"
FIELD, John
Concertos for Piano (7)
Nocturnes
GLUCK, Christoph Willibald
Iphigénie en Tauride (opera)
Orfeo ed Euridice (opera)
HAYDN, Franz Joseph
Concertos in C and D for Cello Hob VIIb:1 and 2
Concertos for Horn Hob VIId:3 and 4
Concertos for Keyboard
+ Concerto in E flat for Trumpet Hob VIIe:1
The Creation (oratorio)
Mass #10 ("Paukenmesse")
Mass #11 ("Nelson")
+ Quartets Op. 71, 74, +76 and 77 (76/3 "Emperor")
The Seasons (oratorio)
Sonatas (miscellaneous) for Piano
+ Symphonies (6-8, +45, 88, +94, 100, +101, 103, +104)
Trios for Flute and Strings (various)
Trios for Piano and Strings (various)
HUMMEL, Johann Nepomuk
Concertos for Piano
Septets for Piano, Winds and Strings
Sonatas for Piano
KROMMER, Franz
Wind Concertos
Wind Serenades
MERCADANTE, Giuseppe
Concertos for Flute
MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus
Arias (opera and concert arias) + Queen of the Night aria from The Magic Flute
+ Concerto for Clarinet K. 622
+ Concertos for Flute, K.313 and 314
+ Concertos for Horn #1-4 K. 412, 417, 447 and 495
+ Concertos for Piano (7-19, +20, +21, +23, 24, 25, 27)
Concertos for Violin (#3-5)
Cosí fan tutte (opera)
Divertimenti #1-3, K. 136-138 and #10, K. 247
+ Don Giovanni (opera)
+ Exsultate, Jubilate (motet)
Idomeneo (opera)
La Clemenza di Tito (opera)
+ Magic Flute (opera) esp. Queen of the Night aria
+ Marriage of Figaro (opera)
Mass in C minor "The Great"
+ Opera Overtures: Overture from Marriage of Figaro
Quartets for Flute and Strings
Quartet for Oboe and Strings K. 370
+ Quartets for Strings(+ 8-13, 14, 16, +17, 18, +19, 23)
+ Quintet for Clarinet and Strings K. 581
Quintet for Piano and Strings
+ Quintets for Strings (+ K. 515, 516, 593 and 614)
Requiem K. 626 Confutatis
Serenade #6 "Serenata notturna" K. 239
+ Serenade #7 "Haffner" K. 250
Serenade #9 "Posthorn" K. 320
+ Serenades #10 "Gran Partita", 11 and 12 for Winds
+ Serenade #13 "Eine kleine Nachtmusik" K. 525
+ Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola K. 364
Sonatas for Piano (8, 11, 13, 15)
Sonatas for Violin (K. 296 and 454)
+ Symphonies (29, 35, 36, +38, 39, +40, +41)
+ Trio for Strings K. 563
Trios for Piano and Strings
ROSSINI, Gioachino
Barber of Seville (opera)Overture
L' Italiana in Algeri (opera)
+ Overtures
Semiramide (opera)
SCHOBERT, Johann
Chamber Music
STAMITZ, Carl
Octets for Winds
Quartet in E flat for Woodwinds Op. 8 #2
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Romantic Composers
The plus (+) sign indicates essential pieces
ADAM, Adolphe-Charles
Giselle (ballet)
ALBENIZ, Isaac
Ibéria for Piano
Rapsodia espanola Op. 70 for Piano and Orchestra
Suite espanola Op. 47 for Piano
ALKAN, Charles-Valentin
Piano Music (Preludes, Impromptus, Études, Concerto, etc.)
AUBER, Daniel-François
Overtures
BERLIOZ, Hector
Damnation of Faust Op. 24
Harold in Italy for Viola and Orchestra Op. 16
L'enfance du Christ Op. 25
Overtures (Rob Roy, King Lear, La Corsaire, etc.)
Requiem Op. 5
+ Symphonie fantastique Op. 14
Les Troyens (opera)
BERWALD, Franz
Chamber Music (Piano Trios, Piano Quintet)
Symphonies (1-4)
BIZET, Georges
+ Carmen (opera)
Suites: L'Arlesienne and Carmen
BOITO, Arrigo
Mefistofele (opera)
BORODIN, Alexander
Prince Igor: Polovtsian Dances
+ Quartets (1, +2)
Symphony #2
BRAHMS, Johannes
Alto Rhapsody for Alto, Male Chorus and Orchestra Op. 53
+ Academic Festival Overture Op. 80
+ Concertos for Piano (1, +2)
+ Concerto for Violin Op. 77
Concerto for Violin and Cello Op. 102
Ein Deutsches Requiem (German Requiem) Op. 45
Hungarian Dances for Piano or Orchestra
Piano Music (FantasiasCappricio Op 116 #3, Intermezzos, Ballades, WaltzesWaltz Op. 39 #1, Rhapsodies, etc.)
Quartets for Strings (1-3)
Quartets for Piano and Strings (1-3)
+ Quintets for Strings
+ Quintet for Clarinet and Strings Op. 115
Quintet for Piano and Strings Op. 34
+ Serenades for Orchestra (+ 1,2)
Sextets (1,2)
Sonatas for Cello and Piano
Sonatas for Viola or Clarinet Op. 120
Sonatas for Violin and Piano
+ Symphonies (+ 1, 2, +3, +4)
Tragic Overture Op. 81
Trio for Clarinet and Strings Op. 114
+ Trios for Piano and Strings (+ 1, 2, 3)
Trio for Horn, Violin and Piano Op. 40
+ Variations on a Theme by Haydn Op. 56a
BRUCH, Max
+ Concerto for Violin #1 Op. 26
-Kol Nidrei- for Cello and Orchestra Op. 47
Symphonies (1-3)
BRUCKNER, Anton
Quintet for Strings
+ Symphonies (1-3, +4, 5, 6, 7, 8, +9)
CARULLI, Ferdinando
Works for Flute and Guitar (Serenades, Duos, etc.)
CHABRIER, Emmanuel
+ Espana
CHARPENTIER, Gustave
Louise (opera)
CHAUSSON, Ernest
Concert for Violin, Piano and String Quartet Op. 21
-Poeme- for Violin and Orchestra Op. 25
Symphony Op. 20
CHOPIN, Frédéric
Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise Op. 22
Concertos for Piano (1, 2)
Krakowiak Op. 14
+ Piano Music (Ballades, Études, Nocturnes:Nocturne #2 Op. 9 #2, Preludes:Prelude Op. 28 #2, Scherzi:Scherzo #1 Op. 20, etc.)
Sonata for Cello and Piano Op. 65
Sonatas for Piano (2, 3)
Les Sylphides (Ballet arranged by Douglas from Chopin’s Piano Music)
Variations on -La ci darem la mano- Op. 2
CILEA, Francesco
Adriana Lecouvreur (opera)
CRUSELL, Bernhard Henrik
Concertos for Clarinet
Quartets for Clarinet and Strings
DEBUSSY, Claude
+ Clair de lune (Suite Bergamasque) for Piano
Études for Piano
+ Images for Piano
Images for Orchestra (including Ibéria)
+ La Mer (Symphonic Sketches) for Orchestra
L'Isle joyeuse for Piano
Nocturnes for Orchestra and Chorus
Pelléas et Mélisande (opera)
+ Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
+ Preludes for Piano
Quartet for Strings
Sonata for Cello and Piano
Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
Sonata for Violin and Piano
DELIBES, Léo
Coppelia (ballet suite)
Lakme (opera)
Sylvia (ballet suite)
DELIUS, Frederick
Brigg Fair (English Rhapsody)
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Tone Poems
DONIZETTI, Gaetano
Lucrezia Borgia (opera)
Lucia di Lammermoor (opera)
La Fille du Regiment (opera)
Don Pasquale (opera)
DUKAS, Paul
Sorcerer's Apprentice
DVOŘÁK, Antonín
Carnival Overture Op. 92
+ Concerto for Cello Op. 104
Concerto for Piano Op. 33
Concerto for Violin Op. 53
+ Quartets (+ 10, 11, 12, +14)
+ Quartets for Piano and Strings
Quintets for Piano and Strings
Rusalka (opera)
Serenades for Orchestra
Slavonic Dances
+ Symphonies (+ 7, +8, +9 -New World-)
+ Trios for Piano and Strings (1-3, +4)
ELGAR, Edward
+ Concerto for Cello Op. 85
Concerto for Violin Op. 61
Enigma Variations Op. 36
Pomp and Circumstance Marches Op. 39
+ Symphonies (+ 1, 2)
ERKEL, Ferenc
Bank Ban (opera)
FALLA, Manuel de
La Vide Breve (opera)
El Amor brujo (ballet)
Nights in the Gardens of Spain for Piano and Orchestra
+ Three-Cornered Hat Dances
FAURÉ, Gabriel
+ Chamber Music w/ Piano (+ Quartets and + Quintets)
+ Pavane for Orchestra Op. 50
Pelléas et Mélisande for Orchestra Op. 80
Piano Music (Barcarolles and Nocturnes)
Requiem Op. 48
Songs
FRANCK, César
+ Organ Music (Chorales)
Quintet for Piano and Strings
+ Sonata for Violin and Piano
Symphonic Poems (Le Chasseur Maudit, Les Eolides, Psyche, etc.)
Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra
+ Symphony in D minor
GADE, Niels
Chamber Music (Quartets, Quintets, Octet, etc.)
Symphonies
GILBERT and SULLIVAN
Mikado
Pirates of Penzance
GIORDANO, Umberto
Andrea Chenier (opera)
GIULIANI, Mauro
Concertos for Guitar and Strings
Music for Flute and Guitar
GLAZUNOV, Alexander
Quartets (2, 4, 7)
Quintet
Raymonda (ballet)
The Seasons (ballet)
+ Symphonies (+ 4, +5, 7)
GLIÈRE, Reinhold
Symphonies (1, 2)
GLINKA, Mikhail
A Life For The Tsar (opera)
Russlan and Ludmilla Overture
GOUNOD, Charles
Faust (opera)
Petite Symphonie for 9 Wind Instruments
Roméo et Juliette (opera)
GRANADOS, Enrique
+ Goyescas for Piano
Spanish Dances for Piano
GRIEG, Edvard
+ Concerto for Piano Op. 16
Lyric Pieces for PianoLyric Piece - Little Bird
+ Peer Gynt Suites
HUMPERDINCK, Engelbert
Hansel and Gretel (opera)
d'INDY, Vincent
Symphony on a French Mountain Air
LALO, Édouard
Concerto in D minor for Cello
Symphony in G minor
Symphonie españole for Violin and Orchestra
LEHÁR, Franz
Merry Widow (opera)
LEONCAVALLO, Ruggero
Pagliacci (opera)
LISZT, Franz
Annees de Pelerinage for Piano
+ Concertos for Piano (+ 1, 2)
+ Hungarian RhapsodiesHungarian Rhapsody #2
+ Les Préludes for Orchestra
Mephisto Waltz for PianoMephisto Waltz
Paganini Études for Piano
+ Sonata in B Minor for Piano
Totentanz for Piano and Orchestra
+ Transcendental Études for Piano
MacDOWELL, Edward
Concertos for Piano
MASCAGNI, Pietro
Cavalleria Rusticana (opera)
MASSENET, Jules
Le Cid (ballet suite)
Operas (Manon, Esclarmonde, Werther)
MENDELSSOHN, Felix
+ Andante and Rondo Capriccioso for Piano
Concertos for Piano
+ Concerto for Violin Op. 64
Elijah (oratorio)
+ Midsummer Night's Dream (incidental music)
+ Octet for Strings Op. 20
Quartets for Strings
Quintet for Strings #2 Op. 87
Sonatas for Organ (1, 6)
Songs Without Words for PianoOp. 30 #4
+ Symphonies (3, +4, 5)
+ Trios for Piano, Violin and Cello
MEYERBEER, Giacomo
L'Africaine (opera)
Les Huguenots (opera)
Les Patineurs (ballet)
Les Prophète (opera)
MOSZKOWSKI, Moritz
Piano Music (Etincelles, Virtuoso Études, etc.)
MUSSORGSKY, Modest
Operas (Boris Godounov, Chovantsjina)
+ Night on Bald Mountain
+ Pictures at an Exhibition
OFFENBACH, Jacques
+ Gaîté Parisienne
Les Contes d' Hoffmann (opera)
+ Orpheus in Hades Overture
PAGANINI, Niccolò
Caprices Op. 1 (24)
Concerto for Violin #1 Op. 6
Quartets for Guitar and Strings
PAINE, John Knowles
Chamber and Piano Music
Symphonies (1, 2)
PONCHIELLI, Amilcare
+ La Gioconda: Dance of the Hours
PUCCINI, Giacomo
Il Trittico (3 short operas)
+ La Boheme (opera)
La Fanciulla del West (opera)
+ Madame Butterfly (opera)
Manon Lescaut (opera)
La Rondine (opera)
+ Tosca (opera)
+ Turandot (opera)
RACHMANINOV, Sergei
+ Concertos for Piano (1, +2, +3, 4)
+ Études and Preludes for Piano
+ Morceaux de Fantasie (+ Op. 3/2Prelude in C# minor, Op. 3 #2 )
+ Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Sonatas for Piano
Suites for Piano Four Hands
Symphonic Dances
Symphony #2
Trios for Piano and Strings
RAVEL, Maurice
Alborada del Gracioso for Orchestra
+ Boléro for Orchestra
Chansons Medacasses for Soprano and Orchestra
+ Concerto in D for Piano (Left Hand)
Concerto in G for Piano
+ Daphnis et Chloé (ballet)
+ Ma mère l'Oye (ballet)
+ Piano Music (Miroirs, Gaspard de la nuit, Le Tombeau de Couperin, etc.)
+ Pavane pour une Infante Defunte
Quartet for Stringa
+ Rhapsodie españole for Orchestra
Tzigane for Violin and Orchestra
La Valse for Orchestra
Valses nobles et Sentimentales
REGER, Max
Organ Music
+ Chamber Music (+ Violin Sonatas)
Orchestral Music (Concertos + Variations)
Piano Music
REICHA, Anton
Wind Quintets
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Nikolai
+ Capriccio españole for Orchestra
Coq d'Or (ballet suite)
Russian Easter Overture
+ Schéhérazade (symphonic suite)
Symphony #2 -Antar-
+ Tsar Sultan (ballet suite) Flight of the Bumblebee
ROUSSEL, Albert
Bacchus et Ariane, Suite 2
Symphony #3
SAINT-SAËNS, Camille
+ Carnival of the Animals
Concertos for Cello
Concertos #2 and 5 for Piano
+ Danse macabre for Orchestra
+ Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso for Violin and Orchestra
Samson et Dalila (opera)
+ Symphony #3 -Organ-
SARASATE, Pablo de
Zigeunerweisen for Violin and Orchestra
SCHUBERT, Franz
Impromptus for Piano D. 899 and D. 935
Moments musicaux for Piano D. 780
Octet D. 803
+ Quartets #12, 13 and #14 -Death and the Maiden-
+ Quintet for Strings D. 956
+ Quintet in A -Trout- D. 667
Rosamunde: Incidental Music D. 797
+ Sonatas for Piano (D. + 664, +959, +960)
Sonata -Arpeggione- D. 821
+ Songs (Die Schone Mullerin, D. 795 and Schwanengesang, D. 957) Hark, Hark, the Lark!
+ Symphonies (2, 4, 5, +8, +9)
Trios for Piano and Strings D. 898 and 929
+ Wanderer Fantasie for Piano D. 760
SCHUMANN, Robert
+ Carnaval for Piano Op. 9
Concerto for Cello Op. 129
+ Concerto for Piano Op. 54
Dichterliebe Op. 48 (song cycle)
+ Kinderscenen for Piano Op. 15
Kreisleriana for Piano Op. 16
Quartet for Piano and Strings Op. 47
+ Quintet for Piano and Strings Op. 44
Songs (Dichterliebe Op. 48 and Liederkreis Opp. 24 and 39)
Symphonic Études for Piano Op. 13
+ Symphonies (+ 1, 2, +3, 4)
Trios for Piano and Strings
SMETANA, Bedrich
+ Ma Vlast (A cycle of 6 symphonic poems including -The Moldau-)
Bartered Bride: Overture and Dances
+ Quartets (1, 2)
SOR, Fernando
Music for Guitar
SPOHR, Louis
Concertos for Clarinet
Concertos for Violin
Quartets and -Double- Quartets for Strings
STRAUSS, Johann Sr.
Radetzsky March
STRAUSS, Johann II
+ Die Fledermaus (opera)
+ Waltzes: On The Beautiful Blue Danube
SUPPÉ, Franz von
Overtures
TCHAIKOVSKY, Peter Ilyitch
+ Capriccio italien for Orchestra Op. 45
+ Concerto #1 for Piano Op. 231st movement
+ Concerto for Violin Op. 35
Eugen Onegin (opera)
Manfred Symphony Op. 58
Marche slave for Orchestra Op. 31
+ Nutcracker Op. 71 (full ballet)
+ Overture 1812 Op. 49
Quartets for Strings
Roméo and Juliet Fantasy Overture, Love Theme
+ Serenade for Strings Op. 48
Sleeping Beauty Op. 66 (ballet)
+ Swan Lake Op. 20 (ballet)
+ Symphonies (2, 4, +5, +6)
Trio for Piano and Strings Op. 50
Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra Op. 33
THOMAS, Ambroise
Mignon: Overture
VERDI, Giuseppe
+ Aïda (opera)
Falstaff (opera)
Macbeth (opera)
Otello (opera)
+ Requiem Mass
+ Rigoletto (opera)
+ La Traviata (opera)
+ Il Trovatore (opera)
WAGNER, Richard
Der fliegende Holländer (opera)
Götterdämmerung (opera)
+ Rhine Journey and Funeral Music
Lohengrin (opera)
Die Meistersinger (opera)
+ Parsifal (opera): Prelude and Good Friday Music
+ Der Ring des Nibelungen (Four Opera Cycle)
+ Das Rheingold
+ Die Walküre
+ Siegfried
+ Götterdämmerung
+ Siegfried Idyll
+ Tannhäuser (opera): Overture and Venusberg Music
+ Tristan und Isolde (opera): Prelude and Liebestod
WEBER, Carl Maria von
Concertos and Concertino for Clarinet
Concertos for Piano
-Grand Duo Concertant- for Clarinet and Piano
Invitation to the Dance
+ Overtures
Piano Music
Quintet for Clarinet and Strings
WOLF, Hugo
Songs (Lied)
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The plus (+) sign indicates essential pieces
BARBER, Samuel
+ Adagio for Strings Op. 11/2
Concerto for Piano Op. 38
Concerto for Violin Op. 14
Knoxville: Summer of 1915 (song cycle)
Sonata for Piano Op. 26
Symphonies (#1 Op. 9 and #2 Op. 19)
BARTÓK, Béla
+ Concerto for Orchestra
+ Concertos for Piano (+ 3)
Concertos for Violin
Dance Suite for Orchestra
Miraculous Mandarin
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Piano Music
+ Quartets (+ 3, + 4, 5)
Sonata for Solo Violin
BAX, Arnold
Symphonic Poems
Symphonies
BERG, Alban
Concerto for Violin
Lyric Suite for String Quartet
Wozzeck (opera)
BERNSTEIN, Leonard
Chichester Psalms
Mass
West Side Story (ballet music)
BLOCH, Ernest
Schelomo
BRIAN, Havergal
Symphonies
BRITTEN, Benjamin
Peter Grimes Op. 33 (opera)
+ Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings Op. 31
Sinfonia da Requiem Op. 20
War Requiem Op. 66
Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Op. 34
BUSONI, Ferruccio
Concerto for Piano Op. 39
Piano Music (Fantasia contrappuntistica, etc.)
COPLAND, Aaron
+ Appalachian Spring (suite or complete ballet)
Concerto for Piano
+ Fanfare for the Common Man
Rodeo (Dance episodes or complete ballet)
El Salón México
Symphony #3
DAVIES, Peter Maxwell
Strathclyde Concertos
DURUFLÉ, Maurice
+ Requiem
ENESCO, Georges
Oedipe (opera)
+ Roumanian Poem
+ Roumanian Rhapsodies
Sonatas for Violin and Piano
GERSHWIN, George
American in Paris
Porgy and Bess (opera - selections)
+ Rhapsody in Blue
GINASTERA, Alberto
Concerto for Piano #1
GÓRECKI, Henryk
Symphony #3
HANSON, Howard
Symphonies (1, 2, 3)
HARRIS, Roy
Symphonies #3 and 5
HINDEMITH, Paul
+ Mathis der Maler (symphony)
Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Weber
HOLST, Gustav
+ The Planets (suite)
HONEGGER, Arthur
Pacific 231
Symphonies #3-5
IBERT, Jacques
Divertissement
IVES, Charles
Piano Sonatas (#2 Concord)
+ Three Places In New England
Symphonies (1-3)
JANÁČEK, Leos
Cunning Little Vixen (opera)
Glagolitic Mass (Slavonic Mass)
Jenůfa (opera)
Piano Music
+ Quartets (1, 2)
+ Sinfonietta
Taras Bulba
KHACHATURIAN, Aram
Concerto for Piano
Concerto for Violin
Gayne (ballet)
KODÁLY, Zoltán
Hary Janos: Suite
Peacock Variations
Sonata for solo cello
MAHLER, Gustav
Kindertotenlieder
+ Das Lied von der Erde
+ Symphonies (+ 1, 2-8, +9)
MARTIN, Frank
Concertos
Mass for Double Chorus
MARTINU, Bohuslav
Concertos (String Quartet, Cello, Violin, Piano, etc.)
+ Double Concerto for 2 String Orchestras, Piano and Timpani
Frescos of Piero della Francesca
Symphonies
MENOTTI, Gian Carlo
Amahl and the Night Visitors
MESSIAEN, Olivier
Organ Music (La Nativité)
Quatuor pour la fin du temps
Turangalîla-Symphony
Vingt Regards for Piano
MILHAUD, Darius
La Creation du Monde
MOMPOU, Federico
Cancions y Danzas for Piano (1-6)
NIELSEN, Carl
Clarinet Concerto Op. 57
+ Symphonies (1-5)
ORFF, Carl
Carmina Burana (scenic cantata)
PISTON, Walter
Incredible Flautist (ballet suite)
Symphony #2
POULENC, Francis
Chamber Music
Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani
Piano Music
Songs
PROKOFIEFF, Sergei
+ Classical Symphony
+ Concerto #3 for Piano
Concertos for Violin (1, 2)
Lieutenant Kije Suite
+ Peter and the Wolf
Roméo and Juliet (excerpts)
+ Sonatas for Piano (2, 6, 7, 8)
+ Symphony #5
RESPIGHI, Ottorino
Ancient Airs and Dances
Gli Ucelli (The Birds)
Brazilian Impressions
Feste Romane
+ Fountains of Rome
+ Pines of Rome
RODRIGO, Joaquín
+ Concierto de Aranjuez for Guitar and Orchestra
+ Concierto par une Gentihombre for Guitar and Orchestra
RUBBRA, Edmund
Symphonies
SATIE, Erik
Piano Music
SCHMIDT, Franz
Symphony #2
SCHOENBERG, Arnold
+ Chamber Symphony No. 1
Five Pieces for Orchestra
Piano Music
+ Pierrot Lunaire
String Quartets
+ Verklärte Nacht
SCHULLER, Gunther
Chamber Music
SCHUMAN, William
A Song of Orpheus
Symphonies (3-5, 7, 10)
SCRIABIN, Alexander
+ Piano Music (Études, Preludes, Sonatas (+ 5))
SESSIONS, Roger
Black Maskers Suite
Concerto for Orchestra
Symphonies
SHOSTAKOVICH, Dmitri
Concertos for Violin, Cello or Piano
Preludes and Fugues for Piano Op. 87
+ String Quartets (+ 8)
+ Symphonies (1, 4, +5, 6, +7, 8, +10, 11, 12, 14)
SIBELIUS, Jean
+ Concerto for Violin Op. 47
+ Finlandia Op. 26
Four Legends From The Kalevala Op. 22 (including the + Swan of Tounela)
+ Symphonies (1, +2, 3, 4, +5, 6, 7)
SIMPSON, Robert
String Quartets
Symphonies (6, 7, 9)
STRAUSS, Richard
Alpine Symphony Op. 64
+ Also Sprach Zarathustra Op. 30 (Symphonic Poem)Also Sprach Zarathustra
Concertos (Horn, Oboe)
Don Juan Op. 20(Symphonic Poem)
Ein Heldenleben Op. 40 (Symphonic Poem)
Electra (opera)
+ Four Last Songs for Soprano and Orchestra
Metamorphosen (Symphonic Poem)
Rosenkavalier (opera)
Salome (opera)
+ Till Eulenspiegel Op. 28 (Symphonic Poem)
STRAVINSKY, Igor
Apollo (ballet)
Concerto Dumbarton Oaks
+ Firebird (ballet suite)
l'Histoire du soldat: Suite
+ Pétrouchka (ballet)
+ Sacre du printemps
Symphony in C
Symphony of Psalms
SZYMANOWSKI, Karol
Concertos for Violin (#1)
String Quartets
THOMPSON, Randall
Alleluia
THOMSON, Virgil
Plow That Broke The Plains (suite)
TIPPETT, Michael
Child of our Time (oratorio)
TOURNEMIRE, Charles
Organ Music
TUBIN, Eduard
Symphonies
TURINA, Joaquín
Piano Music
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph
+ Fantasia on a Theme by Tallis
Fantasia on Greensleeves
The Lark Ascending for Violin and Orchestra
+ Serenade to Music
+ Symphonies (+ 3, 4, 5, 6)
VILLA-LOBOS, Heitor
+ Bachianas Brasileiras (#4, 5)
Chôros
Guitar Concerto
String Quartets
WALTON, William
Concertos (for Violin, Viola, Cello)
Facade
Belshazzar's Feast
Symphony No. 1
WEILL, Kurt
Three Penny Opera
ZWILICH, Ellen Taaffe
Concerto Grosso
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