Classical Music Masterpieces by Composer
One classical music piece per composer that Mike George would like to share.
Albeniz, Isaac / Asturias
Alfven, Hugo / Symphony #3
Albinoni, Tomaso / Oboe Concerto #2
Bach, Karl Philipp Emmanuel / Symphony in C, wq 182,183
Bach, Johan Christian / Quintet for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe, Violin & Cello
Bach, Johan Sebastian / Brandenburg Concerto #3
Barber, Samuel / Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Bartók, Béla / Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Bax, Arnold / Tintagel
Beach, Amy / Summer Dreams for Piano, Four Hands
Berlioz, Hector / Royal Hunt and Storm from “Les Troyens”
Bernstein, Leonard / Overture to “Candide”
Biber, Franz Ignaz / Battalia
Bizet, George / Duet from “The Pearl Fishers”
Bloch, Ernest / Concerto Grosso #1
Boccherini, Luigi / Musica Notturna delle Strade in Madrid
Borodin, Alexandre / String Quartet #2
Brahms, Johannes / Piano Quartet #1 in G
Bruch, Max / Scottish Fantasy
Busoni, Ferruccio / Piano Concerto in C
Butterworth, George / The Banks of Green Willow
Buxtehude, Dietrich / Toccata in F for Organ
Carpenter, John Alden / Adventures in a Perambulator
Chabrier, Emmanuel / Habanera
Chopin, Frederic / Grand Polonaise, op 22
Corelli, Arcangelo / Sonata VIII for Brass
Danzi, Franz / Wind Quintet op 56 #1
Debussy, Claude / The Children’s Corner Suite
Delius, Frederic / Florida Suite
Dowland, John / Music for Lute
Dvorak, Antonin / Symphony #6
Elgar, Edward / Cello Concerto in e
Fabini, Eduardo / Mañana de los Reyes
Field, John / Sonata for Piano #1, Opus 1
Franck, César / Symphony in D minor
Frederick II, King of Prussia “The Great” / Flute Concerto #4 in D
Gardel, Carlos / Tango por una Cabeza
Gershwin, George / Piano Concerto in F
Ginastera, Alberto / “Toccata” from Piano Concerto #1
Glinka, Mikhail / Nocturne “The Separation”
Gottschalk, Louis Moreau / Symphony #1 “A Night in the Tropics”
Gounod, Charles / Funeral March for a Marionette
Grainger, Percy Aldridge / Handel in the Strand
Grieg, Edvard / Wedding Day at Troldhaugen
Grofé, Ferde / Grand Canyon Suite
Händel, George / Organ Concerto #12
Haydn, Franz Josef / Symphony #31 in D “Horn Signal”
Hertel, Johann / Double Concerto for Trumpet and Oboe in E-flat
Holst, Gustav / St Paul’s Suite
Infante, Miguel / Three Andalusian Dances
Joplin, Scott / The Cascades
Janácek, Leos / Sinfonietta
Khachaturian, Aram / Adagio from “Spartacus”
Kodály, Zoltán / Dances from Galanta
Korngold, Erich Wolfgang / Suite “The Sea Hawk”
Larsson, Lars-Erik / Concertino for Viola and Strings
Liszt, Franz / Hungarian Rhapsody #2
Littolf, Henry / Scherzo
Mahler, Gustav / Symphony #1 “Titan”
MacCunn, Hamish / Overture to “Land of the Mountain and the Fog”
Mendelssohn, Felix / The Hebrides Overture
Milhaud, Darius / Le Boeuf Sur Le Toit (The Cow on the Roof)
Mozart, Leopold Mozart / Toy Symphony
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus / Serenade #12 in c K388
Morricone, Ennio / Selections from “Once Upon a Time in the West”
Mussorgsky, Modest / Pictures at an Exhibition (Piano Version)
Nancarrow, Conlon / Study 37 for Player Piano
Nielsen, Carl / Symphony #4 “The Inextinguishable”
Offenbach, Jacques / Entry of the Kings from “La Belle Hélène”
Peterson-Berger, Wilhelm / Song of Summer
Piazzola, Astor / Libertango
Poulenc, François / Sextet for Piano and Winds
Praetorius, Michael / Dances from Terpsichore
Prokofiev, Serge / Cantata “Alexander Nevsky”
Puccini, Giacomo / Capriccio Sinfonico
Purcell, Henry / Suite from “Abdelazer”
Rachmaninoff, Sergei / Symphonic Dances, Op 45
Respighi, Ottorino / Gli Uccelli (The Birds)
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai / Russian Easter Overture
Rodriquez, Joaquin / Concierto de Aranjuez
Rossini, Guillermo / Overture to “William Tell”
Rota, Nino / Selections from “Amarcord”
Rouget De Lisle, Claude Josef / Le Marseillaise
Saint-Saëns, Camille / Piano Concerto #5 “The Egyptian”
Satie Erik / Gymnopedie #1
Schönberg, Arnold /Transfigured Night (Verklarte Nacht)
Schubert, Franz / Quartettsatz
Schumann, Clara / Scherzo #2 in c
Schumann, Robert / Fantasie in C, op 17
Shostakovich, Dmitri / Cello Sonata, op 40
Sibelius, Jean / Finlandia
Sousa, John Phillip / The Stars and Stripes Forever
Spohr, Ludwig / Octet in E major, Op 32
Stamitz, Carl / Piano Concerto in F
Stamitz, Johann / Symphony in E, Op 11 #3
Stockhausen, KarlHeinz / Gruppen
Strauss II, Johan / Roses from the South
Strauss, Richard / Serenade for Winds, Op 7
Telemann, Georg Philipp / Concerto in A for Oboe D’Amore
Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Illych / Serenade for Strings
Van Beethoven, Ludwig / Symphony #6 “Pastoral”
Vaughn-Williams, Ralph / Variations on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
Verdi, Giuseppe /Triumphal March from “Aida”
Villa-Lobos, Heitor / Bachinalas Brasileiras #5 for Soprano & 13 Cellos
Vivaldi, Antonio / Bassoon Concerto in g
Von Bingen, Hildegard / Vox Cosmica
Wagner, Richard / Prelude to Act 1, Der Meistersinger
Walton, William / Viola Concerto
Wieniawski, Henryk / Souvenir du Moscou, op 6
