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Pieces of this collection are rated by their relative level of fame, which depends on right and wrong answers at the Classical music Quiz.
TOP-100 contains the most popular little fragments for each of the melodies.
Gentleman's set of classical music
Classic - a book which people praise and don't read. Mark Twain
You can listen the most famous classical pieces and master the "Gentleman's minimum" of classical music, enough for a conversation in any Beau Monde.
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- № 1: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. "The Nutcracker. Waltz of the Flowers"
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Rating: 351603
The most famous waltz of Tchaikovsky
- № 2: Ludwig van Beethoven. "Sonata No. 14 (Moonlight)"
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Rating: 350437
Thanks to unrequited love of the composer, we can enjoy this wonderful music
- № 3: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. "Swan Lake. Dance of the Little Swans"
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Rating: 348431
Allegro moderato from Act II (this number later became the famous Dance of the Little Swans)
But do you know that there is an original "Dance of the Little Swans: Moderato" at the Act IV ?
- № 4: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. "The Nutcracker. Sugar Plum Fairy Dance"
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Rating: 342446
You can hear it every Christmas so often... almost like "Jingle bells"
- № 5: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. "Flight of the Bumblebee"
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Rating: 341787
Who is quickest
- № 6: Felix Mendelssohn. "Wedding March"
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Rating: 340861
Every day lot of marriages use this music all over the world
- № 7: Aram Khachaturian. "Gayane. Sabre Dance"
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Rating: 339749
Dzhigits with sabres soar above the earth in the rapid dance
- № 8: Ludwig van Beethoven. "Fur Elise"
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Rating: 339340
- № 9: Antonio Vivaldi. "The Four Seasons. "Winter": I. Allegro non molto"
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Rating: 333458
- № 10: Johann Sebastian Bach. "Toccata and Fugue in D minor"
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Rating: 327737
The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565, is a piece of organ music written, according to its oldest extant sources, by Johann Sebastian Bach.
- № 11: Ludwig van Beethoven. "Symphony No. 5"
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Rating: 325654
- № 12: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. "Concerto No. 1"
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Rating: 324150
It is one of the most popular of Tchaikovsky’s compositions and among the best known of all piano concertos.
- № 13: Antonio Vivaldi. "The Four Seasons. "Summer": III. Presto"
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Rating: 321860
- № 14: Richard Wagner. "The Ride of the Valkyries"
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Rating: 318587
- № 15: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. "Rondo Alla Turca"
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Rating: 312358
- № 16: Niccolo Paganini. "A minor Caprice (No. 24)"
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Rating: 297898
- № 17: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. "Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13)"
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Rating: 292248
Eine kleine Nachtmusik[a] (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525, is a 1787 composition for a chamber ensemble by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German title means "a little serenade", though it is often rendered more literally as "a little night
- № 18: Johann Sebastian Bach. "Suite No. 2 (Scherzo)"
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Rating: 289898
- № 19: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. "The Nutcracker. March"
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Rating: 255268
- № 20: Ludwig van Beethoven. "Ode to Joy (Symphony No. 9)"
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Rating: 242976
Comments (2)
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stepin | TOP-100
so wonderful!
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Dashakol | TOP-100
Wow! this is so refreshing. The best rest to put between hours of any mind work. Thank you
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