Classical Music Compositions
34 entries in the Classical Music Compositions compendium.
Má vlastSix symphonic poems depicting Bohemia's countryside, history, and legends.Night on Bald MountainA witches' sabbath on St. John's Eve, immortalized in music.Nocturnes (Chopin)Chopin's 21 nocturnes: short solo piano works that popularized and expanded the nocturne form.Pachelbel's CanonPachelbel's Canon: a Baroque masterpiece of canon and chaconne, rediscovered in the 20th century.Partita for Violin No. 2 (Bach)A solo violin partita culminating in a monumental Chaconne.Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582An influential organ work by Johann Sebastian Bach.Peer Gynt (Grieg)Incidental music for Ibsen's play, later two famous suites.Peter and the WolfA symphonic tale introducing children to orchestral instruments.Petrushka (ballet)Ballet by Stravinsky about a puppet's tragic love and jealousy.Piano Concerto (Grieg)Grieg's only piano concerto, completed at age 24.Piano Concerto No. 1 (Chopin)Frédéric Chopin composed his Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11, in 1830 at the age of twenty. Despite…Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)Tchaikovsky's popular concerto premiered in Boston after Rubinstein's harsh criticism.Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff)Concerto that restored Rachmaninoff's confidence and compositional output.Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)A technically demanding piano concerto premiered in 1909.Piano Concerto No. 5 (Beethoven)Heroic piano concerto with military symbolism and novel orchestral interplay.Piano Sonata No. 11 (Mozart)A three-movement sonata featuring the famous Turkish Rondo.Piano Sonata No. 14 (Beethoven)Piano sonata by Beethoven, nicknamed Moonlight Sonata.Piano Sonata No. 2 (Chopin)Chopin's second piano sonata, featuring the famous funeral march.Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, commonly known as the Pathétique, was composed…Piano Sonata in B minor (Liszt)The Piano Sonata in B minor (Klaviersonate h-moll), S. 178, is a single-movement work for piano by Franz…Piano sonatas (Beethoven)Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas form a bridge between salon and concert hall.Pictures at an ExhibitionPiano suite in ten movements plus Promenade, inspired by an exhibition of Viktor Hartmann's works.Pierrot lunaireAtonal melodrama for reciter and chamber ensemble.Prelude in C-sharp minor (Rachmaninoff)A famous prelude that became both a triumph and a burden.Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faunePrélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune (L. 86) is a roughly ten-minute orchestral symphonic poem by Claude…Radetzky MarchMarch composed by Johann Strauss Sr. for a military victory.Requiem (Fauré)Choral-orchestral setting of the shortened Catholic Mass for the Dead.Requiem (Mozart)Mozart's unfinished Requiem, completed by Süssmayr and others, features a Tuba mirum movement introduced by…Requiem (Verdi)Verdi's dramatic setting of the Catholic funeral mass, composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni.Rhapsody in BlueRhapsody in Blue is a 1924 composition for solo piano and jazz band by George Gershwin, commissioned by…Rhapsody on a Theme of PaganiniA virtuosic piano-and-orchestra work based on Paganini's Caprice No. 24.Ride of the ValkyriesPrelude to the third act of Wagner's Die Walküre.Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)Prokofiev's ballet based on Shakespeare's tragedy.Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky)Tchaikovsky's orchestral work based on Shakespeare's tragedy.
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