Concerto Essential masterworks
The ones you know or you must know.
Other renowned works
1909 - Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor Sergei Rachmaninoff
1905 - Violin Concerto in D minor Francis Poulenc
1895 - Cello Concerto in B minor Antonín Dvořák
1878 - Violin Concerto in D major Johannes Brahms
1868 - Piano Concerto in A minor Edvard Grieg
1841 - Piano Concerto in A minor Robert Schumann
1808 - Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major Ludwig van Beethoven
1796 - Concerto for trumpet in E-flat Joseph Haydn
1786 - Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1786 - Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
This selection of works is not the result of personal preferences or artistic opinion. Selected works come from an exclusive data analysis method developed by soclassiq.
The dating of the works can be precise or sometimes approximate. It may correspond to the premiere date or publication year or completion of the composition (that can be several years after its first public execution).
1710 .. 1910 : the essential composers
1756-1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart °
1770-1827 Ludwig van Beethoven °
1685-1750 Johann Sebastian Bach °
1810-1849 Frédéric Chopin °
1797-1828 Franz Schubert °
1882-1971 Igor Stravinsky °
1732-1809 Joseph Haydn °
1833-1897 Johannes Brahms °
1860-1911 Gustav Mahler °
1841-1904 Antonín Dvořák °
1678-1741 Antonio Vivaldi °
1843-1907 Edvard Grieg °
° : Masterpieces listed
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Currently, 25000+ works are listed for a small selection of 101 composers among thousands listed here. Many composers are missing of which some are essential: J. Rodriguo, C. Franck, H. Gorecki, C. Nielsen, J.Corigliano, P. Hindemith, C. Ives, A. Webern ... New catalogues will be processed later to complete this experience of the discovery of the classical music masterpieces. Thus this selection of works will be updated.
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The purpose of these pages is to point out few relevant works only among tens of thousands and to provide some chronological references.