Dvořák was a composer and one of the first Czech composers to achieve worldwide recognition. He frequently used rhythms and other aspects of folk music...
New World Symphony by Antonin Dvořák
Category: Classical
Quiet City by Aaron Copland
Copland was a composer, writer, composition teacher and conductor. The open, slowly changing harmonies of his music evoke vast landscapes and the pioneer spirit of America. Best known for his vernacular style of the 1930s and 1940s including the ballets Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid, and Rodeo, and Fanfare for the Common Man and his Third Symphony he also composed many other genres including chamber music, opera and vocal works, and film scores...
1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky was a Romantic composer and the first Russian composer to make a lasting international impression. In 1884 Tsar Alexander III honoured him with a lifetime pension...
Eine Kleine Nachtmuzik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. A child prodigy he was competent on both keyboard and violin from the age of five, performing before European royalty. Mozart was engaged as a musician at the Salzburg court at 17 but grew restless and travelled to find a better position. He was dismissed from his post in 1781 while visiting Vienna where he stayed. During his final years, he composed many of his best-known works, including symphonies, operas, concertos, and parts of the Requiem which was unfinished at the time of his death at just 35
Carnaval by Robert Schumann
Schumann was a composer, pianist, and music critic. Regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era, Schumann left the study of law to pursue a career as a pianist but a hand injury ended his dream. Instead he turned his talents to composing and until 1840 he wrote exclusively for the piano. Later he composed for piano and orchestral works, and many Lieder...
Die Winterreise by Franz Schubert
Schubert is among the last of the Classical composers and among the first of the Romantic ones. His music is noted for its melody and harmony. He received a thorough education in music and won a scholarship...
Violin Concerto by Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven was a composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transition between the classical and romantic eras in classical music, and arguably one of the greatest composers of all time....
Trumpet Concerto by Joseph Haydn
Haydn was a composer of the Classical era and instrumental in the development of chamber music. He spent much of his career as a court musician for the remote estate of the Esterházy family. This isolated him from other composers and music trends. However, Haydn’s music was circulated widely and he was the most celebrated composer in Europe...
Eye Level by The Simon Park Orchestra
Best known for the instrumental ‘Eye Level’, the theme tune for the original Van der Valk television series...
Ave Maria by Franz Schubert
Schubert was a composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras. He left behind a cast oeuvre despite his short life...
Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven
Beethoven was a composer and pianist. He was a crucial figure in the transition between the classical and romantic eras in classical music, and arguably one of the greatest composers of all time...
The Lark Ascending by Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending is a short, single-movement work by Vaughan Williams, inspired by the 1881 poem of the same name by George Meredith.
The Water Goblin by Antonín Dvořák
Antoni Leopold Dvořák was a composer and one of the first to achieve worldwide recognition. In line with the Romantic era’s nationalist idiom he frequently employed rhythms and other aspects of the traditional folk music of Moravia and his native Bohemia.
Minuetto by Luigi Boccherini
Title: Minuetto Date: 1771 Composer: Luigi Boccherini Movement: Classical Born: 19 February 1743, Lucca, Italy Italian Died: 26 May 1805, Madrid, Spain
Gustav Holst: The Planets – Venus
Gustavos Theodore von Holst was an English composer, arranger and teacher. There had been professional musicians on the Holst family and it was noted when he was a young boy he would follow the same calling. Apart from the Planet Suite and a few other pieces his music was largely ignored until the 1980s.
Dance of the Furies by Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck
https://youtu.be/vvVl15XXrOg Title: Dance of the Furies Date: 1776 Composer: Christoph Wilibald Ritter von Gluck Movement: Classical German 1714 - 1767 Christoph Wilibald Ritter von Gluck was a composer of Italian and French opera during the early classical era. With a series of radical works, including Orfeo ed Euridice, he broke into the stranglehold of … Continue reading Dance of the Furies by Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck
Ode to Death
https://youtu.be/73rX1AfaHz0 Title: Ode to Death Date: 1919 Composer: Gustav Holst English 1874 – 1934 Gustav Holst Gustavos Theodore von Holst was an English composer, arranger and teacher. There had been professional musicians on the Holst family and it was noted when he was a young boy he would follow the same calling. Apart from the … Continue reading Ode to Death
Serenade No.13 in G Major
https://youtu.be/j6gP3Lim7_k Title: Serenade No. 13 in G Major Date: 1787 Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Movement: Classical Austrian 1756 – 1791
Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity
https://youtu.be/Gu77Vtja30c Title: Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity Date: 1916 Composer: Gustav Holst English 1874 – 1934
Phantasy Quartet
https://youtu.be/aJQZ6qjn-q4 Title: Phantasy Quartet Date: 1932 Composer: Benjamin Britten Movement: 20th Century Classical English 22 November 1913 – 4 December 1976
Flight of the Bumblebee
https://youtu.be/kAJcVR0n-ek Title: Flight of the Bumblebee Date: 1899 Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Russian 18 March 1844 – 21 June 1908
A Musical Joke IV Presto
https://youtu.be/lLjRDlnbyOw Wolfgang Amdeus Mozart Movement: Classical 27 Jan 1756 – 5 Dec 1791 Austrian
Moonlight Sonata
https://youtu.be/4Tr0otuiQuU Ludwig van Beethoven Movement: Transitional between Classical and Romantic Dec 1770 – 26 Mar 1827
Symphony No 25 in G minor: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
https://youtu.be/OyNi19dceMo Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Era: Classical 27 Jan 1756 – 5 Dec 1791
