The greatest film scores
The ones you know or you must know.
Other renowned works
1985 - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters Philip Glass
1977 - Mark di Suvero, sculptor Philip Glass
1960 - Something Wild Aaron Copland
1957 - The World of Nick Adams Aaron Copland
1948 - The Heiress Aaron Copland
1945 - The Cummington Story Aaron Copland
1943 - North Star Aaron Copland
1942 - Kotovsky Sergei Prokofiev
1942 - Tonya Sergei Prokofiev
1931 - The Bells Gustav Holst
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).
1910 .. 1950 : the essential composers
1882-1971 Igor Stravinsky °
1860-1911 Gustav Mahler °
1865-1957 Jean Sibelius °
1862-1918 Claude Debussy °
1875-1937 Maurice Ravel °
1873-1943 Sergei Rachmaninoff °
1858-1924 Giacomo Puccini °
1864-1949 Richard Strauss °
1857-1934 Edward Elgar °
1928-2020 Ennio Morricone
1863-1945 Pietro Mascagni
1906-1975 Dmitri Shostakovich °
° : 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.