EDDIE KONCZAL: Favorite classical composers and works

 






Here is a list of my favorite classical composers and their works I like the best.  As I discover more classical works I will update the list.


Medieval | Renaissance | Baroque | Classical | Romantic | Contemporary

Medieval (c. 800-1400)
Favorite works
Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377)
"Rose, liz, printemps, verdure"
"Douce Dame Joliet"
Johannes Ciconia (1370-1412)
"O rosa bella"
"Sus une fontayne"
Renaissance (1400-1600)
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John Dunstable (c. 1390-1453) "Quam pulchra es"
Guillaume Dufay (1397-1477)
"Resveilles vous chiere et lye"
"Nuper rosarum flores"
"Se la face ay pale"
"Missa Se la face ay pale"
"Missa L'homme arme"
"Ave regina caelorum"
Gilles Binchois (1400-1460)
"Dueil angoisse"
"De plus en plus"
Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410-1497)
"Fors Seulement"
"Missa Fors Seulement"
"Missa Prolationum"
Josquin Desprez (c. 1450-1521)
"Miserere me Deus"
"Ave Maria, virgo serena"
Heinrich Isaac (c. 1450-1517)
"Missa de apostolis"
"Innsbruck, Ich muss dich lassen"
Pierre Attaingnant (c. 1494 – c.1552)
"Bransle De Poictou"
Luis Milan (c. 1500 – 1561) "Pavana No. 6" (from El Maestro)
William Byrd (c. 1543-1623) "Mass for Four Voices"
"Mass for Five Voices"
"The Firste Pavian"
"My Lady Nevelle's Book"
"Infelix Ego"
John Dowland (1563-1626) "Come Again"
"Flow My Teares (Lachrimae)"
"Queen Elizabeth's Galliard"
"Melancholy
Galliard"
Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) Terpsichore
"Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming"
Baroque (1600-1750)
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Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643)
"Toccata avanti la messa della Domenica"
Fiori Musicali
"Recercar con obligo dicantare la quinta parte senza tocarla
"
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Concerto Grosso in C Minor, Op.6, No.3
Henry Purcell (1659-1695) Dido and Aeneas (Opera)
George Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)
Messiah
"Water Music"
"Music for the Royal Fireworks"
"Serse: Largo"
"Solomon: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"
"Zadok the Priest: Coronation Anthem"
"Chaconne in G"
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
"Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring"
"Brandenburg Concerto No. 2"
"Brandenburg Concerto No. 3"
"Brandenburg Concerto No. 5"
"'Little Fugue' in g minor"
"Prelude and Fugue in a minor"
"Cello Suite No. 1 Prelude"
"Double Violin Concerto in d minor"
"Sinfonia no. 2"
Classical (1750-1825)
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Franz Josef Haydn (1732-1809)
"Symphony No. 34 in D Minor/Major"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
"Symphony No. 40 in g minor"
Ludwig von Beethoven (1770-1827)
"Bagatelle in a Minor for Piano, 'Für Elise'"
"Moonlight Sonata (Op. 27, No. 2)"
"Piano Concerto No. 3"
"Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor)"
"Sonata No. 8, Op. 13 in c minor, 'Pathetique'"
"Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major (Eroica)"
"Symphony No. 5 in c Minor, Op. 67"
"Symphony No. 9 No. 9 in d Minor, Op. 125 (Choral)"
Romantic (1825-1900)
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Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)
"Ballade in G minor"
"Polonaise in C# minor"
"Prelude in G major"
"Nocturne in Eb Major"
Jean Sibelius (1865-1957) "Finlandia"
"Karelia Suite"
Erik Satie (1866-1925) Trois Gymnopedies
"Gnossiene No. 1"
"Gnossiene No. 2"
"Gnossiene No. 3"
Contemporary (1900-present)
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Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
"Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis"
"Fantasia on Greensleeves"
Aaron Copland  (1900-1990)
"Fanfare for the Common Man"
"Appalachian Spring"
Classical Gallery
From top
: Guillaume Dufay,
Gilles Binchois, Johannes
Ockeghem, Josquin Desprez,
William Byrd, Girolamo
Frescobaldi, Johann Sebastian
Bach, Ludwig von Beethoven,
Frederic Chopin, and Erik Satie.

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Updated 11-Apr-2009