The greatest ballets
The ones you know or you must know.
Other renowned works
1944 - Cinderella Sergei Prokofiev
1943 - Appalachian Spring Aaron Copland
1925 - Love, the Magician Manuel de Falla
1918 - The Miraculous Mandarin Béla Bartók
1917 - The Wooden Prince Béla Bartók
1917 - The Soldier's Tale Igor Stravinsky
1917 - The Wedding Igor Stravinsky
1912 - Daphnis et Chloé Maurice Ravel
1889 - The Sleeping Beauty Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1735 - Les Indes galantes Jean-Philippe Rameau
This selection of works is not the result of personal preferences or artistic opinion. Selected works come from an exclusive data analysis method developed by soclassiq.
The dating of the works can be precise or sometimes approximate. It may correspond to the premiere date or publication year or completion of the composition (that can be several years after its first public execution).
1860 .. 1940 : the essential composers
1882-1971 Igor Stravinsky °
1833-1897 Johannes Brahms °
1860-1911 Gustav Mahler °
1840-1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky °
1843-1907 Edvard Grieg °
1813-1883 Richard Wagner °
1838-1875 Georges Bizet °
1841-1904 Antonín Dvořák °
1813-1901 Giuseppe Verdi °
1865-1957 Jean Sibelius °
1862-1918 Claude Debussy °
1875-1937 Maurice Ravel °
° : Masterpieces listed
On stage or recorded, listen these essential works
Meet the greatest works of classical music
Currently, 25000+ works are listed for a small selection of 101 composers among thousands listed here. Many composers are missing of which some are essential: J. Rodriguo, C. Franck, H. Gorecki, C. Nielsen, J.Corigliano, P. Hindemith, C. Ives, A. Webern ... New catalogues will be processed later to complete this experience of the discovery of the classical music masterpieces. Thus this selection of works will be updated.
Vocal music
Incidental music
Through the ages
Some major genres or forms among the 150 listed
Concerto, Symphony, Rhapsody, Sonata, Lied, Mass, Suite, Trio, Quartet, Quintet, Waltz, March, Operetta, ...
Composed for piano, harpsichord, organ, violin, cello, viola, flute, oboe, bassoon, clarinet, string orchestra, string quartet, ...
The purpose of these pages is to point out few relevant works only among tens of thousands and to provide some chronological references.