GREAT COMPOSERS OF MUSIC FOR ORCHESTRA

• Bach - (Toccata and Fugue)
• Beethoven - (5th Symphony)
• Blake - (The Snowman)
• Brahms
• Britten - (Peter Grimes - Storm)
• Cage
• Chopin
• Debussy - (Clair de Lune)
• Dvorak - (From the New World)
• Elgar
• Gershwin - (Rhapsody in Blue)​
• Grieg - (In the Hall of the Mountain King)
• Handel - (Zadok the Priest)
• Haydn
• Holst - (Planets - Mars - Bringer of War)
• Jenkins - (Adiemus)
• ​Kodaly

• Mahler
• ​Meredith - (Body Percussion)
• Mozart - (Opera / Horn Concerto #4)
• Mussorgsky - (A Night On A Bare Mountain)
• Orff
• Prokofiev
• (Peter and the Wolf)
• Pachelbel - (Canon in D)​
• Rachmaninov
• Rutter
• Satin-Saens - (Carnival of the Animals / Danse Macabre)
• Shostakovic - (Piano Concerto #2)
• Stravinsky - ​(Firebird / The Rite of Spring)
• Tchaikovsky - (Nutcracker / Swan Lake)
• Verdi
• Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
• ​Wagner

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YouTube user 'Smalin' (Stephen Malinowski) has created some incredible videos, visually illustrating the patterns of classical composition using bar-graph scores.

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Read the profiles of 52 great composers HERE.

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Here's another great site with lots of information about composers through the ages…
(www.sinfinimusic.com)

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Fun & Games with Orchestral Music - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

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Fun with Music - San Francisco Symphony for Kids

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ABRSM Classical 100

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