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  • Johann Sebastian BachBaroque master
  • Ludwig van Beethoven9th Symphony
  • Wolfgang Amadeus MozartClassical era genius
  • Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskySwan Lake / 1812
  • Johannes BrahmsGerman Romantic
  • Frederic ChopinPolish Romantic piano
  • Franz SchubertLieder / 9th symphony
  • Richard WagnerRing Cycle / opera
  • Igor StravinskyRite of Spring
  • Claude DebussyFather of modern
  • Antonio VivaldiThe Four Seasons
  • George Frideric HandelMessiah / Baroque
  • Joseph HaydnFather of Symphony
  • Gustav Mahler9 symphonies / Romantic
  • Dmitri ShostakovichSoviet symphonist
  • Sergei RachmaninoffPiano Concerto No 2
  • Maurice RavelBolero / impressionism
  • Felix MendelssohnViolin Concerto / Romantic
  • Hector BerliozSymphonie Fantastique
  • Franz LisztPiano virtuoso
  • Giuseppe VerdiLa Traviata / Aida
  • Giacomo PucciniLa Boheme / Tosca
  • Bela BartokHungarian modernist
  • Aaron CoplandAppalachian Spring
  • Edvard GriegNorwegian Romantic
  • Jean SibeliusFinlandia / symphonies
  • Antonin DvorakNew World Symphony
  • Bedrich SmetanaThe Moldau / Czech
  • Robert SchumannGerman Romantic
  • Clara SchumannRomantic pianist
  • Camille Saint-SaensCarnival of Animals
  • Cesar FranckSymphony in D minor
  • Gabriel FaureRequiem / French
  • Erik SatieGymnopedies / French
  • Modest MussorgskyPictures at Exhibition
  • Nikolai Rimsky-KorsakovScheherazade
  • Sergei ProkofievPeter and the Wolf
  • Alexander ScriabinMystical Russian
  • Anton BrucknerAustrian symphonies
  • Richard StraussAlso sprach Zarathustra
  • Arnold SchoenbergTwelve-tone technique
  • Alban BergWozzeck / Second Viennese
  • Anton WebernSerialism / Second Viennese
  • Charles IvesAmerican modernist
  • George GershwinRhapsody in Blue
  • Leonard BernsteinWest Side Story
  • Benjamin BrittenPeter Grimes / English
  • Edward ElgarEnigma Variations
  • Ralph Vaughan WilliamsLark Ascending
  • Gustav HolstThe Planets
  • Henry PurcellDido and Aeneas
  • Domenico Scarlatti555 keyboard sonatas
  • Christoph Willibald GluckOrfeo ed Euridice
  • Carl Maria von WeberDer Freischutz
  • Niccolo PaganiniViolin virtuoso
  • Gioachino RossiniBarber of Seville
  • Gaetano DonizettiLucia di Lammermoor
  • Vincenzo BelliniNorma / bel canto
  • Olivier MessiaenQuartet for End of Time
  • Pierre BoulezLe Marteau / serialism
  • Karlheinz StockhausenAvant-garde German
  • Gyorgy Ligeti2001 / Atmospheres
  • Arvo PartSpiegel im Spiegel
  • Philip GlassMinimalism / Einstein
  • Steve ReichMusic for 18 Musicians
  • John AdamsNixon in China / post-min
  • Krzysztof PendereckiThrenody / Polish
  • Witold LutoslawskiPolish modernist