32 Really Famous Classical Pieces You’ve Heard and Don’t Know the Name!
32 Really Famous Classical Pieces You’ve Heard and Don’t Know the Name!
Everyone has heard one of these pieces before! But did you know the name and the author?

Included Pieces

  • 0:00 Symphony Nr 9, Opus 125, Movement IV Ludwig van Beethoven
  • 0:14 Serenade Nr 13,  "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  • 0:25 "An der Schönen Blauen Donau", Opus 314, Johann Strauss (Sohn)
  • 0:40 Suite for Variety Orchestra Nr 1, Movement VII, Dmitri Shostakovich
  • 0:51 Peer Gynt, Act 2, Scene 6, "I Dovregubbens Hall", Edvard Grieg
  • 1:05 Swan Lake, Act 2, "Enchanted Lake", Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • 1:18 Les Contes d'Hoffman, Act 3, "Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour", Jacques Offenbach
  • 1:33 Carmen, Act 1, Scene 5, "L'amour est un oiseau rebelle", Georges Bizet
  • 1:54 La Traviata, Act 1, "Libiamo ne' lieti calici", Guiseppe Verdi
  • 2:12 Suite Nr 3, Movement II, "Air"(Bwv 1068), Johann Sebastian Bach
  • 2:32 The Tale of the Tsar Saltan, Act 3, Scene I, Interlude, "Flight of the Bumblebee", Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  • 2:49 Die Walküre, Act 3, Scene I, Prelude, "Walkürenritt", Richard Wagner
  • 3:01 "Night on Bald Mountain", Modest Mussorgsky(Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
  • 3:23 "Radetzky March", Opus 228, Johann Strauss (Vater)
  • 3:37 A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act 4 Intermezzo, "Hochzeitsmarsch", Felix Mendelssohn
  • 3:56 Lohengrin, Act 3, Scene 1, "Treulich Geführt", Richard Wagner
  • 4:10 Nutcracker, Act 2, Scene 2, "Grand Ballabile", Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • 4:26 Symphony Nr 5, Opus 67, Movement I, "Schicksals-Motiv", Ludwig van Beethoven
  • 4:37 Concerto Nr 1, Opus 9, Movement I, "La Primavera(Spring)", Antonio Vivaldi
  • 4:48 "Frühlingsstimmen", Opus 410, Johann Strauss (Sohn)
  • 5:01 Orphée aux Enfer, Act 2, Scene 2, "Galop Infernal", Jacques Offenbach
  • 5:17 "Danse Macabre", Opus 40, Camille Saint-Saëns
  • 5:40 Messa a Requiem, Movement II, "Dies Irae", Guiseppe Verdi, 
  • 5:57 Carmen, Act 1, Prelude, Georges Bizet
  • 6:12 Carmina Burana, Movement 1/25, "O Fortuna", Carl Orff
  • 6:36 Turandot, Act 3, Scene 1, "Nessun Dorma", Giacomo Puccini
  • 7:00 Nabucco, Act 3, Scene 2, "Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate", Guiseppe Verdi
  • 7:22 Peer Gynt, Act 4, Prelude, "Morgenstemning(i ørkenen)", Edvard Grieg
  • 7:39 Pomp and Circumstance March Nr 1, "Land of Hope and Glory", Edward Elgar
  • 8:00 Guglielmo Tell, Act 1, Overture, "March of the Swiss Soldiers", Gioachino Rossini
  • 8:12 Also Sprach Zarathustra, Movement I, "Sonnenaufgang", Richard Strauss
  • 8:40 "L'Apprenti Sorcier", Paul Dukas
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