Classical Music

[Andrea348]

[quote name='daugher-of-Mary' date='Nov 26 2005, 09:11 AM']and Mozart (as long as he wasn't writing for flutes!).
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Mozart hated writing for flutes...even he couldn't stand it. lol.

[argent_paladin]

Required listening for all:
Mozart- Requiem, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Violin Concertos and his other masses
Beethoven- Symphonies (especially 9th)
Bach- just about everything, but especially Art of the Fugue, any organ works
Wagner- Ring Cycle
Handel- Messiah
Haydn- Surprise Symphony
Stravinsky- Rite of Spring, Firebird
Liszt, Schubert, Debussy, Schumann, Berlioz, Schoenberg, Brahms, Chopin are all worth getting to know

for Catholics- Palestrina, Victoria,

My own eclectic favorites- Barber's Adagio for Strings, Rachmaninoff - thanksgiving to the Mother of God, Vivaldi- Four Seasons,
Modern- Holst - The Planets and Orff- Carmina Burana

I lean more toward choral works (Byrd, Stanford, etc) but for symphonic music, you have to know the first dozen on the list.