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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

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

Read the profiles of 52 great composers HERE.

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

Fun & Games with Orchestral Music - San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Fun with Music - San Francisco Symphony for Kids

ABRSM Classical 100

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