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  3. The greatest works of theatrical music

The greatest works of theatrical music

1660

The ones you know or you must know.

1880
110+ works listed
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Peer Gynt

E. Grieg

1865
1670

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

JB. Lully

L'Arlésienne

G. Bizet

1872

Egmont

L. Beethoven

1810
1692

Oedipus

H. Purcell

Ascanio in Alba

WA. Mozart

1771

Incidental Music to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

F. Mendelssohn

1826

Il sogno di Scipione

WA. Mozart

1772

Choruses and Entr'actes for Thamos, König in Ägypten

WA. Mozart

1779

Rosamunde, Fürstin von Cypern, “Nr. 3b, Der Vollmond strahlt”

F. Schubert

1823

Other renowned works

1947 - L’invitation au château Francis Poulenc

1933 - Perséphone Igor Stravinsky

1925 - The Tempest Jean Sibelius

1914 - Carillon Edward Elgar

1911 - Le Martyre de Saint-Sébastien Claude Debussy

1908 - Swanwhite Jean Sibelius

1905 - Pelléas et Mélisande Jean Sibelius

1891 - Hamlet, incidental music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

1695 - Pausanius, the Betrayer of his Country Henry Purcell

1695 - Abdelazer or The Moor's Revenge Henry Purcell

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).

1660 .. 1880 : the essential composers

1756-1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart °

1770-1827 Ludwig van Beethoven °

1685-1750 Johann Sebastian Bach °

1810-1849 Frédéric Chopin °

1797-1828 Franz Schubert °

1732-1809 Joseph Haydn °

1833-1897 Johannes Brahms °

1860-1911 Gustav Mahler °

1841-1904 Antonín Dvořák °

1678-1741 Antonio Vivaldi °

1843-1907 Edvard Grieg °

1685-1759 George Frideric Handel °

° : 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.

Composers with listed works ...


Vocal music

  • Work for choir
  • Song, lied
  • Opera

Incidental music

  • Ballet
  • Theatrical music
  • Film score

Instrumental music

  • Work for soloist
  • Work for chamber orchestra
  • Work for orchestra
  • Work for orchestra with soloist

Through the ages

10 centuries of classical music

  • 20th century
  • Romantic
  • Classical
  • Baroque
  • Renaissance

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.

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