What are your top ten favorite classical music pieces?!
Question: I'm doing a project on the classical period and I need help with song names. I know how a lot of songs sound, but I don't know their names.
Some good composers are Beethoven, Clementi, Haydn, Mozart, and Bach
Try and list some normal pices, not pieces that only you have heard of (please)
Answers: I'm doing a project on the classical period and I need help with song names. I know how a lot of songs sound, but I don't know their names.
Some good composers are Beethoven, Clementi, Haydn, Mozart, and Bach
Try and list some normal pices, not pieces that only you have heard of (please)
If you said "classical music", I would list off about 100 pieces I love. However, you wanted a specific period, so I'll tell you my favorites of the classical period. On a side note, Bach was a Baroque composer, not a Classical one. Also, I am a pianist, so my pieces will mostly be piano pieces.
1. Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 - Not my favorite, but it comes to my mind first, because everyone should recognize the last movement's choral section, more popularly known as "Ode to Joy."
2. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 - I'm 50 percent sure that you will cry if you hear its first movement. A favorite of mine.
3. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 - A moderately easy piece to play, but it has some background. Beethoven in this period wasn't developing his "own" style, so his music sounds light and airy, like Mozart and Haydn.
4. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 - You can tell by now that I really love Beethoven's Piano Concertos. You're right! This piece was my first concerto I learned, and remains one of my favorites. Don't be fooled by its slow, intensely beautiful first movement, for it is extremely hard to play correctly. The second movement of this Piano Concerto... I'm 70 percent sure that you will cry. (If you don't, you are a not-so-moody person.)
5. Mozart: Piano Sonata in C major, K 330 - I should stop putting Beethoven pieces and be more balanced. Yes, this is one of my favorite Mozart Sonatas. This piece is cheerful, brilliant, happy, and etc.
6. Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro - Lots of popular melodies rose from this opera, and many of those melodies you should recognize easily when listening to this piece. This was the first opera I watched, and I know that it still is my favorite.
7. Haydn: Surprise Symphony - I don't know this piece well. However, I know that this piece is a funny piece, in that at least two people listening to this piece in a concert faint because of heart attack. Listen to it, and be "surprised..." I won't tell you why.
8. Beethoven: Apassionata - One of the greatest of all classical works. This is one of the middle period sonatas by Beethoven, and is one of the most well known. Beethoven considered this his best sonata ever composed. Need I say more?
9: Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata - Also one of the most popular sonatas. I can be you my life that you heard the second movement before/
10: Mozart: Variations on "Ah Vous dirai-je maman... i forgot how to spell it. More commonly known as the "twinkle twinkle little star variaions - A delightful set of variations that always puts a smile onto my face.
I'm really sorry that I couldn't add lots of diverse works, but you need to understand that I, like Schroeder from Peanuts, am a crazy Beethoven fan, and a pianist. Oh well, I'm sure that you will LOVE every one of these pieces. Contact me for more info, because I consider myself an EXPERT in romantic - era pieces, as well as contemporary (early 20th century).
3. Beethoven Piano Concerto No.
The Blue Danube
Moonlight Sonata
Beethoven's 5th
The Flight of the Bumblebee
that's all i can think of!
1) Boccherini cello concerto
http://youtube.com/watch?v=brBWHyjipBs
2) Haydn Cello Concerto in D
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NOcOOoqI290
(one of the most brilliant celllists who ever lived!!!)
3) Bach Partitas for Violin
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ruu1JqRPPic
(Heifitz...masterful player!)
4) Try Mozart's "The Magic Flute" (kinda popular but still good)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=DvuKxL4LOqc
(Talk about hellish mother! Very popular aria. This woman is AMAZING! Talk about killer soprano. Each note is right on.)
5) Beethoven's 7th Symphony. Gorgeous
http://youtube.com/watch?v=s1qAWcd4rr0
(one of the best conductor's who ever lived)
6) Beethoven's cello sonata in A (definitely considered classical, unlike his later works)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GchB9unYkOE
(i wanted the Gminor but I couldnt' find it. so here's amajor. these are two amazing musicians. Glenn Gould is GOD on piano. Leonard Rose is one of the best known names on cello)
7) Bach double violin concerto (AMAZING!)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uXRlnO3K3hk
(so pretty, very popular, but prettttty)
(I edited it. I thought you were referring to classical music, not the period. Sorry! I did keep Bach in there though.)
Most of the classical music fans on hear will have heard of anything that the other has listed. The anonymous ones are sometimes worth the effort of looking into them. There is no such thing as a 'normal' piece. (They're also not songs. Songs have words). I'm not trying to be rude, just trying to share some info. Classical music is great. I'm glad you're working on it. Good luck girl!
~Lisa
Sorry I don't think they are all well known and I don't have 10 but:
Minuet (you know it right? not a fav but it's ok)
Stamitz Concerto by Carl Stamitz (sorry not really well known)
Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A
Mozart's Sinfonia concertante in E flat
Theme from "Symphony No. 9" --Beethoven (trust me you know it)
1. Hummel Piano Concerto No. 2 in A minor, movement 3**
2. Poulenc Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
3. Scheherazade- Rimsky Korsakov
4. Mozart Quintet for Clarinet and Strings**
5. Brahms Trio for Cello, Clarinet, and Piano
6. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Mozart**
7. Bach Suites for Solo Cello
8. Holst Suite in E flat for Military Band
9. 1812 Overture- Tchaikovsky
10. Irish Tune from County Derry, Grainger
While all these pieces are considered classical music, they do not all date from the classical period. (Approx. 1750-1825). The ones with ** next to them are from the classical period. Be very careful. BACH WAS NOT FROM THE CLASSICAL PERIOD.
Good luck.
1)Requiem---Mozart
2)Alleluia---Thompson, Randall
3)Carmina Burana (O Fortuna)---Orff, Carl (Even though he was a Nazi)
4)1812 Overture---Tchaikovsky
5)9th Symphony---Beethoven
6)Hungarian Dance No. 5---Brahms
7)Waltz from Jazz Suite No. 2---
8)Symphony No. 9---Dvorak, Andrew
9)Overture to Nabucco---Verdi, Guiseppe
10)March Militaire Francais---St. Saens, Camille
It was so hard to limit it down to just 10!!!!
Beethoven's ; 5 th Symphony
Massenet ; Meditation from " Thais" ,
Shcubert ; Ave Maria
Saint-Saens ; Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso
Sarasate ; Zigeunerweisen, op 20
Tchaikovsky ; Violin concerto third movement
Kreisler ; Caprice viennois
Weiniawski ; Violin concerto no.2 Second movement
Bruch ; Violin Concerto No.1 Third movement
Paganini ; Violin Concerto No1 Second and third Movements
Bruckner ; Symphony N 8
Mahler ; Symphony N.5 Ades Asyla
KmJ , by the looks of things there are some Beethoven fanatics in here ha,ha,ha,haaa! jstjkg