Classical Music you never knew you knew! UPDATED

[Jaydoggy]

July 27, 2008! Thank you all for your continuing responses. Let's keep it alive.

Over the years, even people who don't listen to classical music know these pieces because of their popularity in the media such as movies and TV. It's time to list them out for the people to find out exactly what they've been listening to, and maybe find out a little bit more about them.


Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata from Toccata and Fugue in D minor
Sacred Cantata 147 (BWV 147): Chorale- "Jesus bleibet meine Freude"
Double Violin Concerto in D Minor, first movement

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony 5 in C Minor, first movement
Symphony 9 in D minor, last movement
Piano Sonata 14, movement 1
Fur Elise
"Rage Over a Lost Penny"

Georges Bizet
Carmen:
-Overture
-Habanera
-March of the Toreadors

Luigi Boccherini
String Quintet in E Major: Minuet in A

Fr�d�ric Fran�ois Chopin
Sonata 2 in Bb minor: Marche funebre

Claude Debussy
Suite Bergamasque: Claire de Lune
Images Book I: Reflets Dans L'eau

Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Antonin Dvorak
Symphony 9: "From the New World", second movement (specifically English Horn Solo in begining) -Dvorak

Edward Eglar
Five Marches for Orchestra: "Pomp and Circumstance"

George Gershwin
Rhapsody Blue
An American in Pari: Allegretto Grazioso (first few minutes)

Edvard Greig
Peer Gynt Suite #1
-Morning
-In the Hall of the Mountain King
Piano Concerto in A minor, movement 1

Alex Grunfeld
Die Fledermaus

George Frideric Handel
"Hallelujah" from Messaiah

Franz Joseph Haydn
Symphony 101: "Clock Symphony", movement 2

Karl Jenkins
Palladio

Scott Joplin
The Entertainer
Maple Leaf Rag

Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody #2

Felix Mendelssohn
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Weding March

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Piano Sonata in C (K. 545): Allegro
Piano Sonata in A (K. 331): Alla Turca
Symphony # 40 in G Minor: Molto allegro
The Marriage of Figaro: Overture
Requiem: Lacrimosa
Requiem: Dies irae

Petrovich Modest Mussorgsky
A Night on Bald Mountain

Jacques Offenbach
Orpheus in the Underworld: Overture and The Can-Can

Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: O Fortuna

Johann Pachelbel
Cannon in D for 3 violins and basso continuo.

Giacomo Puccini
Gianni Schicchi: "O mio babbino caro"

Sergi Rachmaninoff
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: variation 18

Maurice Ravel
Bolero

Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
The Barber of Seville:
-Overture
-"Largo al factotum"
Overture to William Tell
Overture to La Gazza Ladra

Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov
Flight of the Bumblebee

Erik Satie
Gymnopedie #1

Johann Strauss II
On the Beautifull Blue Danube
Vienna Blood Waltz

Richard Strauss
Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spoke Zoroaster): Introduction

Franz van Supp�
Light Cavalry Overture

Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
Romeo and Juliet Overture
The Swan Lake:
-Introduction
-Danse Espagnole
-Sc�ne Finale
The Nutcracker:
-Miniature Overture
-Dance of the Sugarplum Fairie
-Dance of the Reed Pipes
-Waltz of the Flowers

Giuseppe Verdi
Requiem: "Dies irae"
La Traviata: Drinking Song
Rigoletto: "La donna e mobile"
Il Trovatore: "Vedi! Le fosche notturne spoglie"

Antonio Vivaldi
Spring (first movement) from The Four Seasons

Richard Wagnar
Die Walk�re: Ride of the Valkyries
Lohengrin: Bridal Chorus

Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on "Greensleeves" (the original Greensleeves' author is unknown)

[Just Ari]

Thats so true. Some people just need to look into classical music instead of thinking its so boring.

That being said, I absolutley adore Hungarian Rhapsody. We played it in my symphony this year. heart

[Harvested Sorrow]

I can't believe it...you missed the most obvious one of all....

The Peer Gynt Suite! xp

[Jaydoggy]

AHHH i did miss peer gant didn't I? For people that dont wanna listen to the whole thing and just wanna hear the parts you do know from it (you lazy peeps heh), listen to: Morning, and In the Hall of the Mountain King

Just thought of another!!

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, (specifically variation 21)- Rachmaninoff

[Harvested Sorrow]

....D'OH!

Another obvious one....

The first movement to the Moonlight Sonata and Beethoven's fifth symphony.

[Jaydoggy]

Gah! They keep coming!

Symphony 101: "Clock Symphony", second movement- Haydn
Symphony 9: "From the New World", second movement (specifically English Horn Solo in begining) -Dvorak
Symphony 9 in D minor, last movement, "Ode to Joy" - Beethoven

[YellowSapphire]

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik- Mozart<---LOVE IT SOO MUCH!!!
im a big fan of mozart...any kind of his songs
also, i like "the prelude to the afternoon of the faun" (think it was called that...) by debussy.... even though it might sound off tune or anything
but I JUST LOVE THOSE POST-ROMANTIC ERA MUSIC!!!
lol!! xd

[blossombenson]

Just Ari

Thats so true. Some people just need to look into classical music instead of thinking its so boring.

That being said, I absolutley adore Hungarian Rhapsody. We played it in my symphony this year. heart

I agree, I listen to a lot of different Genre's and Classical i'd say is the most relaxing and the most adventurious music ever made.

It inspires people and takes them into another world when actually listened to relaxed biggrin

[Malemocynt]

Back when I was a little child, I remember playing games from The Learning Company namely of the Super Solver series, Outnumbered and Treasure Mountain. Both of those games incorporated classical tunes that I would recognize years later, particularily:

Bach, J.S. - Prelude in C minor, BWV 999
- 1st movement of Concerto in D minor for Harpsichord and orchestra
Bach, C.P.E. - Solfeggietto
Beethoven - a fusion of two of the 12 Contredanses for orchestra
Mozart - 1st movement of Symphony No. 40 in G minor
Paganini - 24th Caprice for violin

[Jaydoggy]

yay! updating the first post list, and here's three more:
A Night on Bald Mountain- Petrovich Modest Mussorgsky
Flight of the Bumblebee- Rimsky-Korsakov
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Wedding March - Mendelssohn

[Malemocynt]

Other classical pieces that has ingrained themselves into the popular media:

Toccata and Fugue in D minor by J.S. Bach
"Wedding march" from Lohengrin by Wagner
Canon in D by Pachelbel
"Hallelujah" chorus from Messiah by Handel
"Marche funebre" from Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor by Chopin
"Dies irae" from Requiem by Mozart
"O Fortuna" from Carmina Burana by Orff
"March of the Toreadors" and "Habanera" from Carmen by Bizet
"Aquarium" from Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens
the intoduction to Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss

[jkjkat]

Yep, I recently discovered A Night on Bald Mountain was in Disney's Fantasia. I had just received the music so when it came up during a Disney's Scene It trivia game I was like "What? No way!"

[violagoodness]

"Rondo Alla Turka" From piano Sonata no. 11 K 331 ~ Mozart

[Sheilagh]

How about Chopin's 2nd nocturne, in... Eb I believe? its either op 9 no 2 or op 2 no 9, that and the "Minute Waltz"

Also, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty. I'll never forget the first time I heard it after growing up with the Disney movie.

Bach's Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring

I hear Mozart's 40th Symphony and the crazy high coluratura passage that the mother/queen sings in the Magic Flute on people's cell phone ringers all the time

Someone already mentioned that horridly overused Pachabell's cannon

And that Boccherini quintet that gets played all the time

(sorry - I listen to and enjoy classical music but I'm really bad about paying atention to details)

[ichbindada]

W.A. Mozart variations for piano "Ah vous je dirai maman" (theme)
F. Chopin Marche Funebre (3rd movement from the second sonata for piano)
G. Bizet Ouverture and Habanera (L'amour est un oiseau) from Carmen
Richard Strauss Also sprach Zarathustra (beginning)
G. Verdi Egyptian March (2nd act) from Aida
R. Wagner Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin (Act 3, first scene)
J. Offenbach Galop Final from...(?)
J. Offenbach Barcarolle, belle nuit o nuit d'amour from Les Contes D'Hofmann

...
-Malemocynt mentionned some of them allready-