After my last post, I was asked to create a list of my favorite classical works, symphonies, movements, or songs from each classical artist.

What follows is that list.

A disclaimer here is also very important, any list such as this will leave out a preponderance of great music. Also, this list will change probably by the day, if not by the minute. (How does one choose the best of Mozart or Bach – let alone the others?) As I created this list, I kept changing my mind over any number of songs.

Against my better judgement, I also added some film scores to the list. (We can’t take ourselves too seriously.)

This list is just a start. I will have more to add. I have left off many great artists and songs.

All that being said, the music that follows is undeniably, great.

Johann Sebastian Bach – Brandenburg Concerto No. 2

Ludwig van Beethoven – Sonata Pathétique No. 8, op. 13 (2nd movement)

Leonard Bernstein – West Side Story Overture

Luigi Boccherini – Minuet in A-Major

Johannes Brahms – Waltz in A-Flat Major

Frederic Chopin – Heroic Polonaise (Op. 53 in A Flat Major)

Jeremiah Clarke – Trumpet Voluntary

Bill Conti – Going the Distance

Aaron Copland – Fanfare for the Common Man

Claude Debussy – Clair de Lune

Antonin Dvorak – New World Symphony

Edward Elgar – Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1

George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue

Edvard Grieg – Piano Concerto No. 1

Ferde Grofe – The Grand Canyon Suite

George Frideric Handel – Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: II. Alla Hornpipe

Franz Joseph Hayden – Trumpet Concerto in E-Flat Major

Gustav Holst – The Planets, Jupiter

Scott Joplin – Maple Leaf Rag

Franz Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

Felix Mendelssohn – Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Symphony No. 41 (Jupiter)

Johann Pachelbel – Canon in D

Sergei Rachmaninoff – Prelude in C-Sharp minor

Gioachino Rossini – William Tell Overture

Eric Satie – Gymnopédie No. 1

Franz Schubert – Piano Sonata in A-Major (D 664)

Johann Strauss – The Blue Danube Waltz

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Piano Concerto No. 1

Vangelis – Chariots of Fire

Giuseppe Verdi – Anvil Chorus’ from Il trovatore

Antonio Vivaldi – The Four Seasons

Richard Wagner – Wedding March from Lohengrin

John Williams – Superman March