200 Greatest Classical Music Works

Criteria: Classical Music Works are ranked for their innovation and influence, as well as their aesthetic importance, historical significance and lasting popularity.
Greatest Classical Works
1. Mass In B Minor
• Johann Sebastian Bach
2. Der Ring des Nibelungen
• Richard Wagner
3. Symphony No. 9 in D minor "Choral"
• Ludwig van Beethoven
4. Symphony No. 5 in C minor
• Ludwig van Beethoven
5. St Matthew's Passion
• Johann Sebastian Bach
6. Tristan und Isolde
• Richard Wagner
7. Don Giovanni
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
8. String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor
• Ludwig van Beethoven
9. Messiah
• George Frideric Handel
10. Rite of Spring
• Igor Stravinsky
11. Symphony No. 3 in E flat major "Eroica"
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
12. Symphony No. 6 in B minor "Pathetique"
• Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
13. Otello
• Giuseppe Verdi
14. Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor "Appassionata"
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
15. The Marriage of Figaro
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
16. Symphony No. 41 in C major "Jupiter"
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
17. Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
18. Well-Tempered Clavier
• Johann Sebastian Bach
19. Symphony No. 9 in E minor "From the New World"
• Antonín Dvořák
20. Winterreise
• Franz Schubert
21. Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major
• Johannes Brahms
22. Piano Concerto in A minor
• Robert Schumann
23. String Quintet in C major
• Franz Schubert
24. Aida
• Giuseppe Verdi
25. Piano Concerto No. 5 in E flat major "Emperor"
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
26. The Nutcracker
• Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
27. Symphony No. 6 in F major "Pastorale"
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
28. Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor
• Johann Sebastian Bach
29. Symphony No. 40 in G minor
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
30. Symphony No. 4 in E minor
• Johannes Brahms
31. The Goldberg Variations
• Johann Sebastian Bach
32. A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Felix Mendelssohn
33. Violin Concerto in E minor
• Felix Mendelssohn
34. Symphony No. 9 in C major "The Great"
• Franz Schubert
35. Pictures at an Exhibition
• Modest Mussorgsky (orch. by Maurice Ravel)
36. Clarinet Quintet in A major "Stadler"
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
37. Prelude A L'apres Midi D'un Faune
• Claude Debussy
38. Symphonie Fantastique
• Hector Berlioz
39. Clarinet Quintet in B minor
• Johannes Brahms
40. Petrouchka
• Igor Stravinsky
41. Violin Concerto in D major
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
42. La Boheme
• Giacomo Puccini
43. Piano Sonata in B minor
• Franz Liszt
44. Cello Concerto in B minor
• Antonín Dvořák
45. The Four Seasons
• Antonio Vivaldi
46. Swan Lake
• Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
47. Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor
• Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
48. Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat
• Franz Schubert
49. Till Eulenspiegel
• Richard Strauss
50. Symphony No. 8 in B minor "Unfinished"
• Franz Schubert
51. Missa Solemnis
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
52. Messa Da Requiem
• Giuseppe Verdi
53. Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor "Moonlight"
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
54. Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor
• Gustav Mahler
55. Symphony No. 2 in D minor
• Jean Sibelius
56. Requiem
• Gabriel Fauré
57. Madama Butterfly
• Giacomo Puccini
58. String Quartet No. 14 in D minor "Death & the Maiden"
• Franz Schubert
59. Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
60. La Mer
• Claude Debussy
61. 24 Preludes
• Frederic Chopin
62. Water Music
• George Frideric Handel
63. Violin Concerto in D major
• Johannes Brahms
64. Piano Quintet in A major "The Trout"
• Franz Schubert
65. String Quartet No. 13 in B flat major and Grosse Fugue
• Ludwig van Beethoven
66. Also Sprach Zarathustra
• Richard Strauss
67. Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor
• Johann Sebastian Bach
68. Préludes, Book 1
• Claude Debussy
69. Piano Concerto in A minor
• Edvard Grieg
70. Symphony No. 7 in A major
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
71. Polonaise No. 6 in A flat major "Heroic"
• Frederic Chopin
72. Symphony No. 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
• Gustav Mahler
73. Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
74. Symphony No. 10 in E minor
• Dmitri Shostakovich
75. String Quartet No. 15 in A minor
• Ludwig van Beethoven
76. Symphony No. 5 in D minor
• Dmitri Shostakovich
77. String Quintet No. 4 in G minor, K516
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
78. Parsifal
• Richard Wagner
79. Finlandia
• Jean Sibelius
80. Ein Heldenleben
• Richard Strauss
81. Der Rosenkavalier
• Richard Strauss
82. Appalachian Spring
• Aaron Copland
83. Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
84. Boris Godunov
• Modest Mussorgsky
85. Symphony No. 3 in F major
• Johannes Brahms
86. La Traviata
• Giuseppe Verdi
87. Carmen
• Georges Bizet
88. Scheherazade
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
89. Die Zauberflote
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
90. Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
91. Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
92. Requiem
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
93. Missa Papae Marcelli
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
94. Die Meistersinger
• Richard Wagner
95. Symphony No. 39 in E flat major
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
96. The Creation
• Franz Joseph Haydn
97. Sleeping Beauty
• Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
98. Symphony No. 7 in E major
• Anton Bruckner
99. Romeo and Juliet
• Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
100. Concerto for Orchestra
• Béla Bartók
101. German Requiem
• Johannes Brahms
102. Symphony No. 4 in F minor
• Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
103. Symphony No. 1 in C minor
• Johannes Brahms
104. Piano Quintet in F minor
• Johannes Brahms
105. Serenade No. 13 in G major "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
106. String Quartet No. 12 in F major "American"
• Antonín Dvořák
107. String Quartet No. 19 in C major "Dissonance"
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
108. Clarinet Concerto in A major
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
109. Violin Concerto in D major
• Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
110. Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor
• Johann Sebastian Bach
111. Symphony No. 9 in D minor
• Gustav Mahler
112. Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major
• Johann Sebastian Bach
113. Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major
• Johann Sebastian Bach
114. Firebird Suite
• Igor Stravinsky
115. Toccata and Fugue in D minor
• Johann Sebastian Bach
116. Symphony No. 4 in E flat major "Romantic"
• Anton Bruckner
117. Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
118. Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers of 1610)
• Claudio Monteverdi
119. Symphony No. 4 in A major "Italian"
• Felix Mendelssohn
120. Piano Trio No. 7 in B flat major, Op. 97 "Archduke"
• Ludwig van Beethoven
121. Requiem Grande Messe des Morts
• Hector Berlioz
122. War Requiem
• Benjamin Britten
123. Tosca
• Giacomo Puccini
124. Falstaff
• Giuseppe Verdi
125. Die Schone Mullerin
• Franz Schubert
126. Carmina Burana
• Carl Orff
127. String Quartet No. 2 in D major "Nocturne"
• Alexander Borodin
128. Rigoletto
• Giuseppe Verdi
129. Glagolitic Mass
• Leos Janácek
130. The Barber of Seville
• Gioacchino Rossini
131. Rhapsody in Blue
• George Gershwin
132. Cello Concerto in E minor
• Edward Elgar
133. Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
134. Symphony No. 38 in D major "Prague"
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
135. Cantata No. 140, Wachet Auf
• Johann Sebastian Bach
136. Octet for Strings in E flat major
• Felix Mendelssohn
137. String Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 "Emperor"
• Joseph Haydn
138. Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
139. Violin Sonata in A major
• César Franck
140. Symphony No. 3 in C minor "Organ"
• Camille Saint-Saëns
141. Missa Pange Lingua
• Josquin des Prez
142. Dichterliebe
• Robert Schumann
143. Symphony No. 94 in G major "Surprise"
• Franz Joseph Haydn
144. Symphony No. 101 in D major "The Clock"
• Franz Joseph Haydn
145. Les Preludes
• Franz Liszt
146. Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
• Serge Prokofiev
147. Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major "Waldstein"
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
148. Cavalleria Rusticana
• Pietro Mascagni
149. Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
150. Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major
• Sergei Prokofiev
151. Piano Quintet in E flat major
• Robert Schumann
152. Enigma Variations
• Edward Elgar
153. Das Leid von der Erde
• Gustav Mahler
154. Fantasy in C major "Wanderer"
• Franz Schubert
155. Symphony No. 104 in D major "London"
• Franz Joseph Haydn
156. Piano Concerto No. 1 in E flat major
• Franz Liszt
157. Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
158. The Art of the Fugue
• Johann Sebastian Bach
159. Symphony No. 5 in E minor
• Peter Ilitch Tchaikovsky
160. Daphnis et Chloe
• Maurice Ravel
161. Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
• Franz Joseph Haydn
162. Il Trovatore
• Giuseppe Verdi
163. Ballade No. 1 in G minor
• Frederic Chopin
164. Night on Bald Mountain
• Modest Mussorgsky
165. Carnaval
• Robert Schumann
166. Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat major "Hammerklavier"
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
167. Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
• Johannes Brahms
168. Adagio for Strings
• Samuel Barber
169. Violin Concerto in D minor
• Jean Sibelius
170. Turandot
• Giacomo Puccini
171. Belshazzar's Feast
• William Walton
172. Symphony No. 9 in D minor
• Anton Bruckner
173. Faust
• Charles Gounod
174. Symphony of Psalms
• Igor Stravinsky
175. Lohengrin
• Richard Wagner
176. Symphony No. 5 in E-flat major
• Jean Sibelius
177. Mathis der Maler
• Paul Hindemith
178. Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor
• Frederic Chopin
179. Sinfonietta
• Leos Janácek
180. Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor
• Max Bruch
181. Peer Gynt Suite No. 1
• Edvard Grieg
182. Symphony No. 1 in D major
• Serge Prokofiev
183. Symphony No. 8 in C minor
• Anton Bruckner
184. The Royal Fireworks Music
• George Frideric Handel
185. Violin Concerto No. 2 in B minor
• Béla Bartók
186. Rapsodie Espagnole
• Maurice Ravel
187. Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat major
• Franz Schubert
188. The Planets
• Gustav Holst
189. String Quartet No. 4 in C major
• Béla Bartók
190. Romeo and Juliet
• Serge Prokofiev
191. Canon
• Johann Pachelbel
192. The Blue Danube
• Johann Strauss II
193. Four Coronation Anthems
• George Frideric Handel
194. String Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110
• Dmitri Shostakovitch
195. Verklärte Nacht
• Arnold Schoenberg
196. 24 Caprices
• Niccolo Paganini
197. Pelléas et Mélisande
• Claude Debussy
198. Trois Gymnopédies
• Erik Satie
199. Symphony No. 2 in G major "London"
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
200. Three Places in New England
• Charles Ives
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastian Bach
Richard Wagner
Joseph Haydn
Johannes Brahms

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Last Updated: 2010-10-31