Rhapsody Essential masterworks
The ones you know or you must know.
Other renowned works
1931 - Second Rhapsody George Gershwin
1928 - Rhapsody No. 1 for violin, piano and orchestra Béla Bartók
1928 - Rhapsody No. 2 for violin and orchestra Béla Bartók
1909 - First Rhapsody for clarinet in B-flat Claude Debussy
1904 - Rhapsody for piano Béla Bartók
1870 - Rhapsody from “Harzreise im Winter” (Goethe), “Alto Rhapsody” Johannes Brahms
1863 - Rhapsody Franz Liszt
1853 - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 Franz Liszt
1851 - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 1 Franz Liszt
1847 - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 Franz Liszt
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).
1830 .. 1940 : the essential composers
1810-1849 Frédéric Chopin °
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 °
° : Masterpieces listed
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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.
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The purpose of these pages is to point out few relevant works only among tens of thousands and to provide some chronological references.