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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.

Last Updated: 2010-10-31

Classical Music 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
Ludwig van Beethoven


Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart


Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach


Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner


Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn


Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms

  1. Herbert Von Karajan
  2. Leonard Bernstein
  3. Wilhelm Furtwangler
  4. Karl Bohm
  5. George Szell
  6. Otto Klemperer
  7. Claudio Abbado
  8. Eugene Ormandy
  9. George Solti
10. Bruno Walter
11. Neville Marriner
12. John Eliot Gardner
13. Carlos Kleiber
14. Michael Tilson Thomas
15. Fritz Reiner
16. Leopold Stokowski
17. Colin Davis
18. Charles Dutoit
19. Adrian Boult
20. Bernard Haitink
21. Andre Previn
22. James Levine
23. Rafael Kubelick
24. Christoph Von Dohnanyi
25. Leonard Slatkin

  1. Vladimir Horowitz
  2. Arthur Rubinstein
  3. Sergei Rachmaninoff
  4. Joseph Hoffman
  5. Sviatoslav Richter
  6. Van Cliburn
  7. Arthur Schnabel
  8. Claudio Arrau
  9. Alfred Cortot
10. Vladimir Ashkenazy
11. Maurizio Pollini
12. Alfred Brendel
13. Martha Argerich
14. Glenn Gould
15. Emil Gilels
16. Georges Cziffra
17. Aldo Ciccolini
18. Leif Ove Andsnes
19. Krystian Zimerman
20. Jean-Yves Thibaudet

  1. Jascha Heifetz
  2. Yehudi Menuhin
  3. Itzhak Perlman
  4. Nathan Milstein
  5. Joseph Szigeti
  6. Isaac Stern
  7. Salvatore Accardo
  8. Maxim Vengerov
  9. Joshua Bell
10. Anne-Sophie Mutter





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