mom: "I'm Bach! what are you doing? " son: "Chopin some Beet-hoven and red pachelBel pepper" mom: "hey, look outside, I have a new Paganini" son: "cool car ma, btw, could you please buy me a Mozartrella cheese and some other gu-Stav? Here's the shopping Liszt" mom: "sure, I'll Handel this" son: " OK, Schu-mann"
It wojld appear A most valid point on your part Jacob; c) But in all faifness, this was a work of fiction, and poetic licence. Although my friend, you had said so yourself when you implied "Chopping" in your original text...
Just a thought: Don't have things like "Bach's Organ Works" as one number. Specify which one. Or Brahms Piano Concertos 1 and 2 should hold separate spots. Don't put 12 Haydn symphonies in one spot or 5 Mozart piano concertos in one spot either.
Wether you agree with it or not, this is the list: 100. Peer Gynt Suite (E. Grieg) 99. The Moldau (B. Smetana) 98. Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 (F. Liszt) 97. The Planets (G. Holst) 96. Lucia di Lammermoor (G. Donizetti) 95. Violin Sonata (C. Franck) 94. Carmina Burana (C. Orff) 93. Clarinet Concerto (W. A. Mozart) 92. Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche (R. Strauss) 91. 1812 Ouverture (P. I. Tchaikovsky) 90. Bolero (M. Ravel) 89. Violin Concerto No. 1 (M. Bruch) 88. Romeo and Juliet (S. Prokofiev) 87. Symphony No. 8 (A. Bruckner) 86. Scheherazade (N. Rimsky-Korsakov) 85. Clarinet Quintet (J. Brahms) 84. Piano Works (C. Debussy) 83. Missa Solemnis (L. v. Beethoven) 82. String Quartet No. 8 (D. Shostakovich) 81. Impromptus (F. Chopin) 80. Music for the Royal Fireworks, Water Music (G. F. Handel) 79. Cello Concerto (A. Dvorak) 78. Symphony No. 1 (G. Mahler) 77. Piano Sonata (F. Liszt) 76. Violin Concertos (J. S. Bach) 75. Symphony No. 3 (J. Brahms) 74. Piano Concerto (R. Schumann) 73. String Quartets Op. 76 (F. J. Haydn) 72. Adagio for Strings (S. Barber) 71. Waltzes & Polkas (J. Strauss II) 70. Das Lied von der Erde (G. Mahler) 69. Violin Sonata No. 9 (L. v. Beethoven) 68. Kreisleriana (R. Schumann) 67. Mass in B Minor (J. S. Bach) 66. Pictures at an Exhibition (M. Mussorgsky) 65. Rigoletto (G. Verdi) 64. Trout Quintet (F. Schubert) 63. Concerto for Orchestra (B. Bartok) 62. Symphonie Fantastique (H. Berlioz) 61. Il Barbiere di Siviglia (G. Rossini) 60. Violin Concerto (P. I. Tchaikovsky) 59. Otello (G. Verdi) 58. Violin Sonatas & Partitas (J. S. Bach) 57. Violin Concerto (J. Sibelius) 56. String Quartets (C. Debussy, M. Ravel) 55. Piano Concerto (E. Grieg) 54. Symphony No. 8 (F. Schubert) 53. Eine kleine Nachtmusik (W. A. Mozart) 52. Rhapsody in Blue (G. Gershwin) 51. Winterreise (F. Schubert) 50. Organ Works (J. S. Bach) 49. Prélude à l’après-midi d’une faune (C. Debussy) 48. Symphony No. 7 (L. v. Beethoven) 47. La Traviata (G. Verdi) 46. Symphony No. 5 (D. Shostakovich) 45. Dichterliebe (R. Schumann) 44. Piano Concertos 1 & 2 (J. Brahms) 43. Symphony No. 6 (L. v. Beethoven) 42. String Quartet No. 14 (F. Schubert) 41. Symphonies 93-104 (F. J. Haydn) 40. The Nutcracker (P. I. Tchaikovsky) 39. Violin Concerto (J. Brahms) 38. Carmen (G. Bizet) 37. Waltzes (F. Chopin) 36. Le Nozze di Figaro (W. A. Mozart) 35. Symphony No. 9 (A. Dvorak) 34. Well-Tempered Clavier (J. S. Bach) 33. Violin Concerto (L. v. Beethoven) 32. Piano Concertos Nos. 20, 21, 23, 24 & 27 (W. A. Mozart) 31. Symphony No. 1 (J. Brahms) 30. La Boheme (G. Puccini) 29. Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 (S. Rachmaninoff) 28. The Four Seasons (A. Vivaldi) 27. Symphony No. 3 (L. v. Beethoven) 26. Aida (G. Verdi) 25. Goldberg Variations (J. S. Bach) 24. Violin Concerto (F. Mendelssohn) 23. The Rite of Spring (I. Stravinsky) 22. Piano Sonata No. 21 (F. Schubert) 21. Vespers of 1610 (C. Monteverdi) 20. Late String Quartets (L. v. Beethoven) 19. Ein deutsches Requiem (J. Brahms) 18. Der Ring des Nibelungen (R. Wagner) 17. Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41 (W. A. Mozart) 16. Piano Concerto No. 1 (P. I. Tchaikovsky) 15. The Magic Flute (W. A. Mozart) 14. Piano Concerto No. 5 (L. v. Beethoven) 13. Tosca (G. Puccini) 12. Symphony No. 6 (P. I. Tchaikovsky) 11. Tristan und Isolde (R. Wagner) 10. Nocturnes (F. Chopin) 9. Requiem (G. Verdi) 8. Brandenburg Concertos (J. S. Bach) 7. Requiem (W. A. Mozart) 6. Symphony No. 5 (L. v. Beethoven) 5. Messiah (G. F. Handel) 4. Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14 & 23 (L. v. Beethoven) 3. Don Giovanni (W. A. Mozart) 2. St. Matthew Passion (J. S. Bach) 1. Symphony No. 9 (L. v. Beethoven)
62. Symphonie Fantastique (H. Berlioz) - Really??? Since all these are time tested masterpieces, any list will be completely subjective as far as order is concerned.
very true, I believe Bach's "Well tempered clavier 1 and 2" and Bach's "Organ works" should be both in top ten, not because im a Bach fan, simply because noone will never write music more perfect than that.
Britannica says "Widely Regarded as the greatest composer who ever lived.. check this out global.britannica.com/biography/Ludwig-van-Beethoven he is the only composer who covers 3 periods..classicism, romantic and with his last quartets jump to post-romantic age...berlioz, schonberg, shostakovich they used the grosse fuge as the model of atonal composition...regards :)
Funny how people take this list the wrong way. This person was trying to make a list of their favorite pieces and everyones criticising it. Sure people have opinions but like having to be like "No WaY iS ThAt BeTtEr ThAn ThIs" like it probably wasnt even meant to rate them in the description it clearly states " MY LIST" not " EVERYONES TOP 100 FAVORITE CLASSICAL PIECES ". Or saying something like " WhErE is blah blah blah". Sorry. It just annoyed me a lot to see so many people criticising the video.
Swan lake and winter isn't classical music swan lake -1800's romantic,victorian Era vivali's winter- 1600's Baroque era this video only showcase's classical era Music 1700's
+Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Holst's Planets is classical music???? Watch the video again. Also, there are another 3 Tchaikovsky's compositions in the video: the nutcracker, 1812 and the Piano Concerto
+Sara Calvo Well im terriblly sorry to inform you that Mozart was actually a comical guy .. and the video this is only bassed on a single persons view of he/shes favorite music you know
My Top 15 Favorites: (1) Bach - The Art of Fugue (2) Beethoven - Quartet 14, op 131 in C#m (3) Bach - Mass in B minor (4) Beethoven - Missa Solemnis, op. 123 (4) Beethoven - Grosse Fuge quartet, op.133 (5) Bach - The Musical Offering (6) Beethoven - Quartet 15, op.132 in Am (7) Beethoven - Symphony # 9 (8) Beethoven - Symphony # 7 (9) Bach - St. Anne Prelude and Fugue (10) Mozart - Symphony # 41 (11) Mozart - Symphony # 40 (12) Mozart - Adagio and Fugue, KV 546 (13) Mozart - Prelude to The Magic Flute (14) Palestrina - Missa Papae Marcelli (15) Bach - St. Matthew Passion
As of today, on RU-vid, Vivaldi's Four seasons have the highest viewing of all classical works, distancing seriously all others. Four seasons is also. considering all the versions available for download the highest viewed video pre 1982, crushing Beatles, Elvis, Abba, Bee gees, Sinatras, Madonna, Mozart, Beethoven, and surely I would not bet that MJ can resist for long. Second in classical comes Nessun dorma (Puccini), and third Adagio (Albinoni/Giazotto). With over 400 other concerts in thousands of versions each with high viewing , Vivaldi doesn't fear to be approached by anybody at the time being. Four seasons is the highest globally viewed long (40 minutes) video till today, so surpasses MJ too.... Just wait and see... Monteverdi (Orfeo) and Gabrieli (Sacrae symphoniae) deserve the highest ratings but are less known. due to the difficulty to collect a suitable ensemble
I know I'm a huge fan of Beethoven. He's one of the greatest artist who ever lived. But I don't agree with some rankings. First, what is the Missa Solemnis doing at #83 ? It should be in the top ten! Then, where the f*ck are the Hammerklavier and Coriolan Overure ??? And also, the Well Tempered Clavier only #34... Blasphemy
+SvartHal I agree with you... In addition I didn´t find there piano sonatas like Waldstein or Les Adieux, Grose fuge, anything from Fidelio and more... But it doesn´t matter, his 9th symphony was the first :DD
Well have you ever listened to music? I mean actual music, not vapid and insignificant little compositions such as Für Elise. Have you ever listened Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas? Do it, then you'll maybe understand what I'm talking about
Ediz Eribac My biggest regret in retrospect. I was a latecomer to Mahler. Today I would keep in Das Lied von der Erde but replace Symphony No 1 with the 9th, 2nd and maybe 5th as well. Not easy to cram so much great music into 100 spots!
Nice effort, but there are some major flaws in this list which require clarification: 1. Rating an *individual piece* of work with a *group of pieces* is bad period! It's bad because it embellishes an individual piece while minimizing a group of pieces (i.e. there is no way Beethoven's 9th symphony alone, is greater than all of Mozart's piano concertos 20, 21, 23, 24 & 27, which you peculiarly put at #32; The same goes for Bach's Brandenburg concertos at #8, Haydn's London symphonies 93-104 at #41, Chopin's waltzes at #37 and Handel's music for the royal fireworks and water works at #80??). Such an error is akin of saying one All-Star baseball player is equal to or greater than an entire All-Star baseball team! 2. Mixing Symphonies, Operas, Waltzes, Oratorios, Concertos, etc. is erroneous as well. One needs to compare "like to like," apples to apples, oranges to oranges and so forth. Only then does a more true picture of actuality reveal itself (although one could argue that even the music eras themselves should be separated for even more clarity)... 3. Ranking lists will always be subjective in nature to one's personal tastes.
Thomas Tallis (renessaice... they were the first and latest), Purcell, Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, Edward Elgar, William Walton, and more modern comosers... like Malcolm Arnold, David Arnold, J.Barry
THX for the video! I can believe how can people (like me brother) like shit modern musics, like dumpstep, or wut! The classical music is the best! Ode to Joy was a good choice for #1!
it's heretic!! :-) where are the prodigious Sibelius' symphonies !!?? especially the 5th and 7th ! and the Italian symphony by Mendelssohn ... and Mahler's 5th..
+Köln Nantes MAHLER'S 5ORITE IS NOT HERE!? If indeed it is not I'm taking off my like. Edit: But then he added Shostakovitch 5th, Dvorak 9th and even the Bramdemburg concertos, surely I'll not deslike but I'm divided between giving a like because of number 1 or not.
+JonatasMonte juste the symphonie "titan" (and at the 78th !...) ; but the most scandalous is that I don't find Sibelius at all .... it s a big crime ! :-) I can't put a "like" :-)
Interesting list, but I mostly disagree with you heh! C'mon, Bach's Mass in B Minor and Beethoven's Missa Sollemnis for example are severely underrated here and deserved a better place... and where are Beethoven late sonatas? I love Tchaikovsky, he is one of my favorite composers, but... his Piano Concerto No. 1 at #16? Isn't it a bit overrated? Brandemburg and Moonlight/Pathetic sonatas are a bit overrated too IMO... :P
So, benefit of hindsight, what would I change 12 years later? Biggest omissions: Mahler, Symphony No. 9 (replace 1st) Schubert, String quintet (replace Trout) Bach, Cello suites Beethoven, Late piano sonatas Strauss, Four last songs Brahms, Symphony No. 3 (replace 1st) Strauss, Also sprach (replace Till Eulenspiegel) Tallis, Spem in alium Ravel, Daphnis et Chloe Bartok, String quartets Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier Mendelssohn, Octet And yes, I’d put the Bach Mass in B minor higher, in the 20s or 30s
@@cziffra-eg9st Thank you for that robust, informative and enlightening interjection. However, given that my view is supported by such luminaries as Stravinsky, Schnittke and Gould, I'm content to stand by my assertion
@@cziffra-eg9st It's a fantastic work and a personal favourite of mine, but Beethoven's great talent was his ability to improve constantly and to transcend the encumbrance of his devastating disability. In many ways, he had achieved the apotheosis of orchestral music with it; a young Wagner, witnessing the 9th for the first time, believed that the future of music was being prophesied by Beethoven: the symphony was dead, long live the music drama. Beethoven's himself chose another route; the concentration, balance and purity of the string quartet. The late quartets are stunning in their range and scope and, while some may regret the development, provided a pathway for Schőnberg's development of serialism. Beethoven was, indeed, working on a prospective 10th Symphony at the time of his death. The fragments we possess serve as testimony of something most interesting. The influence of the late quartets could well have created something so miraculous that my initial assertion would have been utterly stultified. Sadly, we shall never know
@@Cruithneach fair enough. My point is, great works will always be disliked by some. Brahms didn't like Liszt's Sonata in B Minor either. Hanslick hated almost everything Bruckner composed.
Okay i have beef with the exclusion of Mahler 5, Zarathustra, wait...not a single Strauss Opera???? Not Die Frau Ohne Schatten??? And Brahms 3rd Symphony for me just blows away his first. Just my opinion
This is the most complete list of the best classical music ever made. Almost all of my favourite pieces was in there, and I am going to listen to the rest right now :) Thanks!!
For me... my favourite classical work of all time (the planets) it has structure: strong, soft, sherzo, joy, weird scary majestic thing, weird, mystery... all in 50 minuts (the perfect timming) and it is a cicle!
