Minimal Listening List:

17th, 18th, 19th Century

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)

• Goldberg Variations
• Saint Mathew Passion
• Brandenburg Concertos (No. 1 - 6)
• Suites for Orchestra (No. 1 - 4)
• Musical Offering
• The Well-Tempered Klavier (Books 1 & 2)
• The English Suites
• The French Suites
• 3 Sonatas for Viola Da Gamba and Harpsichord
• Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue
• Suites for Solo Violoncello (No. 1 - 6)

Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)

• Symphony 10 (Clock)
• Symphony 22 (Philosopher)
• Symphony 45 (Farewell)
• Symphony 55 (Schoolmaster)
• Symphony 92 (Oxford)
• Symphony 104 (London)
• String Quartet, Op. 74 (Knight Quartet)
• String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 3 (Kaiser Quartet)
• Piano Sonatas

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)

• The Marriage of Figaro
• Don Giovanni
• Symphony 35 (Haffner), 36 (Linz), 39, 40 (Jupiter), 41
• Piano Sonatas (No. 1 - 15)
• String Quartet, No. 3, No. 4
• Quintet in E Flat, K 452
• Piano Concerto in F Major, K 459, No. 19
• Piano Concerto in C Major, K. 503, No. 25
• Piano Concerto in D Minor, K. 466, No. 20

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)

• Symphony No. 1, 5, 6, 7, 9
• Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 for Violin and Orchestra
• Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 37 for Piano and Orchestra
• Concerto No. 5 in E Flat Major for Piano and Orchestra
• Bagatelles, Op. 33, Op. 126
• Piano Sonata No. 30, Op. 102, Op. 106 (Hammerklavier), Op. 101
• Piano Sonata No. 31, Op. 110, Op. 111
• String Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 127
• String Quartet in B Flat Major, Op. 130 (original version with Great Fugue)
• String Quartet in C Sharp Minor, Op. 131
• String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132
• String Quartet in F Major, Op. 135

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

• Symphonie Fantastique
• Harold In Italy
• Roman Carnival

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

• Gianni Schicchi

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

• Polonaises Op. 26, No. 1, 2; Op. 40, No. 1, 2; Op. 44, 53, 61
• Etudes Op. 10, 25
• 24 Preludes, Op. 28
• Waltzes Op. 64, No. 2; Op. 69, No. 2; Op. 70, No. 2

Felix Mendlessohn-Bartholdy (1809 - 1847)

• Symphony No. 3, 4 (Italian)
• Octet in E Flat Major, Op. 20

Jaques Offenbach

• Tales of Hoffman
• Orpheus and Eurydice

Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)

• Carmen

Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)

• Carnaval
• Kinderszenen
• Piano Sonata in F Sharp Minor, Op. 11
• Fantasie in C Major, Op. 17

Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868)

• Barber of Seville
• Sins of My Youth (Late Songs)
• A Masked Ball

Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)

• Piano Sonata in B Flat Major, Op. Posthumous
• Piano QUintet in A Major (The Trout Quintet)
• Symphony No 8 in B Minor (The Unfinished), No. 9 (The Great)
• Songs
• Die Schoen Mullerin
• Die Winterreise
• Dichterliebe
• Fantasy in C Major, D. 760 (The Wanderer)

Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)

• Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
• Die Fliegende Hollander
• Tristan und Isolde

Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)

• Symphony 1, 2, 3, 4
• Piano Concerto No. 1, No. 2
• Piano Quintet
• Intermezzi, Op. 76, 116, 117, 118, 119
• Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120, No. 2
• Variations on a Theme by Haydyn
• Eight Hungarian Waltzes

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)

• Falstaff
• Othello
• Requiem

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893)

• The Nutcracker Suite
• Symphony 4, 5, 6 (Pathetique)
• Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello, Op. 14
• Violin Concerto, D Major, Op. 35

Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881)

• Boris Gudunov (original version)
• Pictures At An Exhibition (piano)
• Pictures At An Exhibition (Ravel orchestration)
• The Nursery
• Seven Songs
• The Song of the Flea
• Songs and Dances of Death

Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)

• Der Rosenkavalier
• Salome
• Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911)

• Symphony 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9
• Das Lied von der Erde
• Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Mark Sullivan: : Courses | Computer Music | Tangents | Transients

Composition: Traces in Writing | Traces In Dscourse | Teaching Composition |Composers | Web Resources