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Book I
38 Goldberg Variations
Chaconne
40 Wachet auf, ruft uns die
Stimme
Wie zittern und wanken
Herr, gehe niccht ins
Gericht
St. Matthew Passion
41 Mache dich mein Herze
rein
Mass in B Minor
42 Art of Fugue
Vor deinen Thron tret ich
allhier
45 George Frideric Handel Messiah
Israel in Egypt
47 The Arrival of the Queen of
Sheba from Solomon
Giulio Cesare
48 Water Music
48 Music for the Royal
Fireworks
49 Acis and Galatea
49 Messiah
52 Giacomo Carissimi Jephte
53 Giovanni Gabrieli In ecclesiis
53 Heinrich Schutz Saul, Saul, was verfolgst
du mich? & others
53 Antonio Vivaldi The Four Seasons
Gloria in D Major
53 Domenico Scarlatti
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86 String Quintet No. 3 in G Minor, K. 516
86 Symphony No. 38 in D Major, K. 504 (Th Prague)
87 Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, K. 550
87 The Marriage of Figaro
88 Magic Flute
89 Requiem
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143 Scherzo in B-flat Minor, Op. 31
143 Polonaise Fantasy in A-flat Major, Op. 61
147 Richard Wagner The Flying Dutchman (Dutchman overture)
152 Siegfrieds Funeral March (Twilight of the Gods)
153 Ride of the Valkyries
153 Forest Murmurs
153 Entry of the Gods into Valhalla
153 Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin
154 Prelude and Love-Death from Tristan und Usolde
154 Lohengrin & Die Meistersinger
157 Franz Liszt Faust Symphony
157 Piano Sonata in B Minor
157 Transcendental Studies After Paganini
157 Mephisto Waltzes
157 Hungarian Dances
157 Bagatelle Without Tonality
159 Johannes Brahms Hungarian dances & Lullaby
161 Liebestreu, Op. 3, No. 1
161 Scherzo in E-flat Minor
163 Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major
164 Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor
165 Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)
165 Piano Quintet in F Minor
166 String Sextet in G Major
166 Symphony No. 1 in C Minor
167 The Third Symphony in F Minor
171 Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1
172 1812 Overture
172 Nutcracker
173 Serenade for Strings in C Major
173 Symphony No. 5 (1888)
173 Symphony No. 6 (the Pathetique)
176 Antonin Dvorak Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (From the New World)
String Quartet No. 12 in F Major (American)
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 7
182 Gustav Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn (The Youths Magic Horn)
Symphony No 2 (1888-1895) Resurrection
Fourth Symphony
Das Lied von der Erde (Song of the Earth)
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189 Sir Edward Elgar Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1
Enigma Variations; Cello Concerto (by Jacqueline du
Pre)
189 Jean Sibelius Finlandia, The Swan of Tuonela; Violin Concerto;
Second & Fifth Symphonies
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262 Cantata profana
262 Divertimento for String Orchestra
263 Piano Concerto No. 2
263 Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
264 Concerto for Orchestra
267 Dmitry Shostakovich Symphony No. 5
268 Piano Trio No. 2
269 Violin Concerto No. 1
271 String Quartet No. 8
271 String Quartet No. 13
274 Benjamin Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
274 Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes
275 Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra
275 A Ceremony of Carols
275 The Turn of the Screw
278 Aaron Copland El salon Mexico
278 Billy the Kid
279 Rodeo
279 Appalachian Spring
280 Fanfare for the Common Man
281 GyortgyLigeti Adventures, & New Adventures
283 Mysteries of the Macabre
283 Requiem, & Lux aeterna
283 Violin Concerto
284 Fanfares
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296 Music for 18 Musicians
296 Philip Glass Einstein on the Beach
297 John Adams Nixon in China, others
Notes by R. Hall
The composer is listed once, with blank spaces under his/her name for additional
recommended pieces.
Each piece listed was in bold type in the hard cover edition of the book. Exceptions
include Further Modernist Composers etc.
These tables were prepared in Microsoft Word 2010.
There are some formatting errors, and formatting inconsistencies, neither of which are
critical.
I did not include More [composer] pieces.
I did not insert logical page breaks.
The font is Calibri 10 point.
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