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Boléro
Maurice Ravel, composed in 1928 and is known for its unique crescendo and relentless rhythm.
The Four Seasons
Antonio Vivaldi, a set of four violin concertos that give musical expression to the seasons of the year and was composed in the Baroque era.
The Rite of Spring
Igor Stravinsky, the ballet score is famous for its avant-garde nature and caused a riot at its 1913 premiere.
Canon in D
Johann Pachelbel, a Baroque piece of music for three violins and basso continuo, commonly played at weddings.
Clair de lune
Claude Debussy, the third and most famous movement of Suite bergamasque, composed in the impressionist style around 1890.
Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2
Frédéric Chopin, one of his most famous pieces, it is typical of his lyrical and expressive style as a Romantic era composer.
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K. 467 ('Elvira Madigan')
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, completed in 1785, the Andante movement became famous through its use in the 1967 Swedish film 'Elvira Madigan'.
West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein, an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet as a 20th-century American musical with lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.
Carmen
Georges Bizet, a French opera with the libretto written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, set in Spain.
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
Johann Sebastian Bach, a Baroque organ piece with a disputed attribution, known for its dramatic opening and intricate fugue.
The Nutcracker
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891–92, this two-act ballet is based on E. T. A. Hoffmann's story 'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King'.
The Magic Flute
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an opera composed in 1791, notable for its prominent Masonic elements.
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 ('Choral')
Ludwig van Beethoven, completed in 1824, it includes a final movement with a chorus and vocal soloists setting the 'Ode to Joy'.
Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an Italian opera composed in 1787 with a libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte.
Night on Bald Mountain
Modest Mussorgsky, although composed in 1867, it became famous in its revised version by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
Carmina Burana
Carl Orff, a scenic cantata composed in 1935–36, based on 24 poems from the medieval collection of the same name.
Peer Gynt Suite
Edvard Grieg, incidental music composed in 1875 for Henrik Ibsen's play of the same name.
Requiem Mass in D minor, K. 626
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a completion of the work was attempted by Franz Xaver Süssmayr after the composer's death in 1791.
Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, composed in Vienna in 1787, during the Classical period.
Pictures at an Exhibition
Modest Mussorgsky, a suite of ten pieces plus a recurring, varied Promenade theme, composed in 1874.
Swan Lake
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, a ballet composed in 1875–76, one of the most popular ballets of all time.
Messiah
George Frideric Handel, an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 and first performed in Dublin.
Brandenburg Concertos
Johann Sebastian Bach, a collection of six instrumental works presented by Bach to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, in 1721.
Rhapsody in Blue
George Gershwin, composed in 1924, this piece merged elements of classical music with jazz influences for piano and orchestra.
Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor 'Quasi una fantasia', Op. 27, No. 2 ('Moonlight Sonata')
Ludwig van Beethoven, composed in 1801 and dubbed the 'Moonlight Sonata' by poet Ludwig Rellstab in 1832.
La Traviata
Giuseppe Verdi, an Italian opera in three acts set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the novel 'La Dame aux Camélias' by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2
Sergei Rachmaninoff, composed in 1892 and is one of the composer's most famous compositions.
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Ludwig van Beethoven, composed during his early period of hearing loss and the Napoleonic Wars.
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, KV 550
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, one of his last three symphonies composed in a prolific summertime in 1788.
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