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Johann Sebastian Bach

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(German 1685 - 1750)
Brandenburg Concertos
The Well-Tempered Clavier

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Samuel Barber

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(American 1910 - 1981)
Overture, School for Scandal
Adagio for Strings

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Bela Bartok

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(Hungarian 1881 - 1945)

Miraculous Mandarin

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Ludwig von Beethoven

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(German 1770 - 1827)
Emperor Concerto
Missa Solemnis
Overtures (Egmont, Fidelio, Leonore)
Symphonies (nine total) (No. 3 “Eroica”, No. 6 “Pastoral”, No. 9 “Choral”)
Operas (Leonore, Fidelio)
[Hearing deteriorated and was almost deaf]

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Hector Berlioz

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(French 1803 - 1869)
Damnation of Faust
Harold in Italy
Romeo and Juliet
Overtures (Beatrice and Benedict, Benvenuto Cellini, King Lear, The Roman Carnival)
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Aaron Copland

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(American 1900 - 1990)

Ballets (Appalachian Song, Billy the Kid, Rodeo)

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Claude Debussy

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(French 1862 - 1918)
Bergamasque (Clair de Lune)
Images
La Mer
Nocturne
Prelude, Afternoon of a Faun
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Antonin Dvorak

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(Czech 1841 - 1904)

Symphony No. 9: “New World”

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Franz Joseph (“Papa”) Hayden

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(Austrian 1732 - 1809)
Symphonies (104 Total):
No. 22: "The Philosopher"
No. 26: "Lamentation"
No. 31: "Horn Signal (Lookout)"
No. 45: "Farewell"
No. 48: "Maria Theresa"
No. 60: "Il Distratto"
No. 82: "L'Ours"
No. 83: "La Poule"
No. 85: "La Reine (the Queen)"
No. 92: "Oxford"
No. 94: "Surprise"
No. 96: "Miracle"
No. 100: "Military"
No. 101: "The Clock"
No. 103: "Drumroll"
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Charles Ives

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(American 1874 - 1954)
Central Park in the Dark
The Unanswered Question

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Franz Liszt

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(Hungarian 1811 - 1886)
A Faust Symphony
Mazeppa

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Gustav Mahler

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(German 1860 - 1911)
Song of the Earth
Symphonies
No. 2: "Resurection"
No. 8: "Symphony of a Thousand"
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Felix Mendelssohn

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(German 1809 - 1847)
Overtures (The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave, Ruy Blas)
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Symphonies
No. 3: "Scottish"
No. 4: "Italian"
No. 5: "Reformation"
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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(Austrian 1756 - 1791)
Symphonies (Kochel numbers)
No. 25: "Little G Minor"
No. 31: "Paris"
No. 35: "Haffner"
No. 36: "Linz"
No. 38: "Prague"
No. 41: "Jupiter"
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Sergei Prokofiev

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(Russian 1891 - 1953)
Peter and the Wolf
Romeo and Juliet
Scythian Suite

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Maurice Ravel

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(French 1875 - 1937)
Bolero
Daphnis and Chloe
Mother Goose
Spanish Rhapsody
La Valse
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Ottorino Respighi

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(Italian 1879 - 1936)
The Pines of Rome
The Fountains of Rome

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Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

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(Russian 1844 - 1908)
Scheherazade
Overture: The Great Russian Easter

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Camille Saint-Saens

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(French 1835 - 1921)
Danse Macabre
Carnival of the Animals
Samson and Delilah

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Franz Schubert

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(Austrian 1797 - 1828)
Symphonies
No. 4: “Tragic”
No. 8: “Unfinished”

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Robert Schumann

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(German 1810 - 1856)
Symphonies
No. 1: “Spring”
No. 3: “Rhenish”

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Richard Strauss

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(German 1864 - 1949)
Don Juan
Don Quixote
Metamorphosis
Salome
Till Eulenspiegel
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Death and Transfiguration
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Igor Stravinsky

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(Russian 1882 - 1971)
Card Game
Firebird
Petrushka
Rite of Spring
Song of the Nightingale
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Peter Tchaikovsky

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(Russian 1840 - 1893)
Capriccio Italien
Symphonies
No. 2: "Little Russian"
No. 6: "Pathetique"
1812 Overture
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George Frideric Handel

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(German 1685 - 1759)

Messiah

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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi

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(Italian 1678 - 1714)

The Four Seasons