Greatest Classical Music Pieces

Honestly, this is the best thing I've ever heard! It's a masterpiece. If I don't feel good, I just listen, and it takes all the stress away, clears my mind, and helps me think. So if you haven't listened yet, you really missed something big. Listen to it right now!

The most romantic, melodramatic masterpiece ever. Some theories say that the Moonlight Sonata (the notes) is compatible with the mathematical structure of electricity.

It filled my heart when I first heard it and it took all my sadness away. It sounds like I'm really under the moonlight.

The classical piece par excellence. I'm listening to it right now.

Vivaldi is a beautiful musician and a person I wish I knew.

Let's be honest and in simple terms, what's not to love about this epic apotheosis of music?

This is one of the most well-known pieces of all time. I highly recommend listening to this piece as it shows passion. This is an example of music at its finest.

The-the-the-daaa. The-the-the-daaa. This four-note motif is literally known by everyone. I think this piece should receive a higher position.

My favorite classical piece by far. Possibly the most beautiful music ever written in any genre. Whenever I feel sad or angry, I play Canon, and it just makes me feel better. I tear up every time I listen to it.

It leaves such an impression after listening to it the first time. It leaves even more after the second time. No matter how many times you have listened to it, it will continue to inspire you forever.

This is the only classical music piece that even non-connoisseurs of classical music recognize. Most of all, it is the most haunting, moving, captivating, and inspirational music I've ever heard.

I learned to play this at school. Unfortunately, I don't think I could still do it now. I still think it's one of the greatest classical pieces (as if I have any authority to say that), and making it the European anthem was a stroke of genius.

That choir part is absolutely mind-blowing! It makes me feel truly joyful every time I hear it! This is the best classical piece ever!

This is a very great song. Go to YouTube and listen. My friend visiting cried... weird.

It is indeed a legendary composition. Listening to the intro makes me feel as if I am witnessing the Big Bang, something huge, massive, and spectacular. The transition in the music is as smooth as butter. It needs to be ranked much higher!

Wow. Many people know this better as "The Vampire Song" or Toccata and Fugue in D "Dracula" minor. This piece is so intense yet so beautiful.

This music proves that from chaos, order emerges, and yet, they are the same.

This music is suspenseful and really cool. If you've never heard this piece, you should!

This one puts a smile on your face and gets you all charged up with its amazing intensity!

Really powerful! I love this piece.

Why is this so low? Hasn't anybody heard it?

This is as popular on piano as Smoke On The Water is on guitar. It's a beginner's favorite. Everyone thinks they are cool if they can play either SOTW or Für Elise.

This piece is a grandiose masterpiece. It is the greatest classical piece ever, in my opinion. It is suspenseful, lively, and energetic.

The best arrangement of the piece was performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It is still a masterpiece in general, but the LPO version is beyond words. I added this, by the way.

As someone with a background in classical, jazz, and metal, I think this is one of the greatest musical pieces of all time, in any genre - arguably number one, although that spot is impossible to determine.

Although, Tchaikovsky, being Tchaikovsky, didn't like this piece at all.

Surprised this is ranked so low. It's one that everyone has heard at one point or another, and it really gets you pumped.

Truly empowering and magnificent. It contains such power within it.

I don't know how this piece could be so low. Yes, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and 5th Symphony are incredible. But this is, in my opinion, better. It's so beautiful and well-rounded, and I could listen to it on repeat for the rest of my life.

The antithesis of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Beautiful piece, has a vibe that's not as dark. The mood conjured can only be summed up as immersive.

Better than that overplayed "Moonlight Sonata." This piece is the best music about the moon ever written.

Incredible at the end of the film "Brassed Off," like a force of nature!

The last piece of music Mozart ever wrote, he put all of his knowledge he gained throughout his years into writing it on his deathbed. Only when someone is in such a situation can they truly convey real emotions into a piece of music, and that's exactly what Wolfgang did in Requiem.

He made some very pretty classical music. He is also very interesting.

It is said that it's his best work, but he didn't finish it. A pupil did.

It is an insult that this, the most beautiful piece of music ever written, is at #130. It should at least be in the top 5. The best violin version is played by Yueun Gema Kim. It is on YouTube.

If this masterpiece was created in any of the Western or elegant societies, the world would know it as the best classical music piece ever composed. And so well do we now.

I've listened to this masterpiece countless times, and I've even won a musical competition performing it solo on piano. However, before you can fully appreciate Gershwin, you need to understand who he was and listen to some of his other orchestral works, such as An American in Paris, Piano Concerto, Cuban Overture, Second Rhapsody, Girl Crazy Overture, and his piano preludes.

Some people claim that American composers Aaron Copland (1900-1990) and Gershwin have similar music, but that isn't true! Regarding Rhapsody in Blue: it's a rhapsody akin to a piano concerto, composed in 1924. In my opinion, it ranks between 15th and 20th in my personal top 40 classical pieces and is Gershwin's best work.

The most famous version today was arranged by American Ferde Grofé. The original jazz band version was composed by Gershwin, with the piano solo performed by Gershwin himself (there's still an audio recording of his performance). The piece was conducted by Paul Whiteman. Gershwin's recording lasts 10 minutes, while the full version is 16-19 minutes long. Occasionally, certain motives are skipped in performances, such as in Leonard Bernstein's rendition. In Fantasia 2000, a few piano solos are also omitted.

Rhapsody in Blue is a combination of jazz and classical music. It evokes the feeling of being in America and is the first jazzy concerto ever written (as I've mentioned elsewhere).

In my opinion, Rhapsody in Blue has three parts:
- Part one (0:00-4:40) feels like the morning.
- Part two (4:40-11:10) reflects the afternoon.
- Part three (everything after 11:10) captures the evening.

The entire piece, in my eyes, represents a whole day in New York City.

Beautiful, just beautiful, especially the 2nd movement. This one piece inspired three of the greatest film scores of all time: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, and Jaws. What other pieces here can you say that about?

I love the whole symphony! My favorite part is the second movement. It has a cor anglais solo, and I love cor anglais solos. The second movement is my favorite piece out of all music in the world.

The second movement has an amazingly beautiful English horn solo.

Such joy and excitement are shown in this piece. The orchestration is pure magic.