Music Everyone Should Know

By Tresta Neil

Called to Learn, Curiosity, Influence, Music

Music has been important throughout history. Here is a music list you and your children can get to know at just the sound of the piece.

While attending a Humanities class in college I learned to really love classical music and its many facets. Enjoy.

Title	Author	Period
Prelude to Lohengrin	Wagner	Romantic
Four Seasons	Vivaldi	Baroque
Nutcracker suite – sugar Plum Fairy	Tchaikovsky	Romantic
Nutcracker suite – Russian Dance	Tchaikovsky	Romantic
Surprise symphony	Haydn	Classical
Piano concerto #21	Mozart	Classical
Women are fickle	Verdi	Romantic
1812 Overture	Tchaikovsky	Romantic
William Tell Overture	Rossini	Romantic
Revolutionary Etude	Chopin	Romantic
Pilgrims chorus	Wagner	Romantic
Adgio for strings	Barber	Romantic
Rhapsody on the theme of Paganini	Rachmaninov	Romantic
Invention	Bach	Baroque

Mars from Planet Suite	Gustav Holst, 1915	20th century
Violin concerto in D major	Tchaikovsky	Romantic
Toccata and Fugue in D minor	Bach	Baroque
Piano Concerto no. 2 in C minor	Rachmaninov	Romantic
Caprice No. 24 in A minor	Niccolò Paganini	Romantic
Aria of the Queen of the Night from The Magic Flute	Mozart	Classical
Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor	Brahms	Romantic
Symphonie No. 9 in D minor	Beethoven	Romantic
Christe Redemptor omnium, a Christmas Hymn sung at Vespers on Christmas Day	Gregorian Chant	Medieval
Symphony No. 2 in C Minor or ‘Resurrection’ Symphony	Gustav Mahler, 1895	Romantic
Don Juan Op. 20	Richard Strauss	Romantic
Ride of the Valkyries	Richard Wagner	Romantic