The Top 100 Delightful Classical Music Pieces All Children Should Hear
It’s the music that makes you think of an airplane soaring through the fluffy white clouds, or of an excited senior marching down the aisle to graduate. It’s the music that makes you laugh and the music that makes you cry. It’s the music we should all know and at least become somewhat familiar with. And, you can with my list of the Top 100 Delightful Classical Music Pieces All Children Should Hear. Be sure to use the great free printable pack that’s available at the end of the post. Click on the links below to listen.
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Baroque Period (1600-1725)
Bach: Little Fugue in G Minor
Vivaldi: Four Seasons “Spring,” “Summer,” “Autumn,” “Winter”
Pachelbel: Canon in D
Handel: Water Music
Handel: Messiah “He Shall Lead His Flock”, “Comfort Ye, My People,” “For Unto Us a Child is Born,” “Hallelujah Chorus,”
Handel: Rinaldo “Lascia Ch’io Pianga”
Paganini: Caprice No. 24
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Classical Period (1725-1800)
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Mozart: Marriage of Figaro Overture
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Mozart: Divertimento No. 17
Haydn: Surprise Symphony
Haydn: Clock Symphony
Haydn: Farewell Symphony
Beethoven: Pathetique Sonata
Beethoven: Fur Elise
Romantic Period (1800-1899)
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Chopin: Waltz Opus 69, No. 1
Schubert: “Ave Maria”
Rossini: The Barber of Seville Overture
Rossini: William Tell Overture
Bellini: “Casta Diva” from Norma
Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries
Offenbach: Can-Can
Franck: “Panis Angelicus”
J. Strauss: The Blue Danube Waltz
J. Strauss: Tritsch-Tratsch Polka Op. 214
Gottschalk: “The Banjo”
Brahms: “Lullaby”
Brahms: Waltz for Violin
Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5
Brahms: Violin Concerto
Bizet: Habanera from Carmen
Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Rimsky-Korsakov: Procession of the Nobles
Mussorgsky: A Night on Bald Mountain
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
Dvorak: New World Symphony
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Theme
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Russian Dance, Waltz of the Flowers, Chinese Dance, Dance of the Reed Flutes
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
Grieg: Peer Gynt Morning
Saint-Saens: Carnival of Animals “Aquarium,” “Danse Macabre,” and “The Swan,”
Massenet: Meditation
Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
Gilbert and Sullivan: “Major General” from Pirates of Penzance
Satie: Gymnopedie
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Modern Period (1900-present)
Puccini: “Nessun Dorma” from Turnadot
Sousa: Washington Post March
Sousa: Stars and Stripes Forever
Respighi: Pini di Roma
Debussy: Clair de Lune
Debussy: Arabesque
Garland and Razaf: In the Mood
R. Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3
Stravinsky: The Firebird Suite
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
Ravel: Bolero
Sibelius: Finlandia
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2
Bernstein: West Side Story Symphonic Dances
Copland: Simple Gifts
Copland: Hoedown
Vaughan Williams: March Past of the Kitchen Utensils
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Kodaly: Viennese Musical Clock
Barber: Adagio for Strings
John Williams: Star Wars
John Williams: Jurassic Park
John Williams: Schindler’s List
Shore: The Lord of the Rings medley
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How do you print the flashcards? There was no place in which to do this.
Hi Cristee,
After purchasing the course at https://learn.musicinourhomeschool.com/courses/100-delightful-classical-music-pieces-mini-course/, you look for the lesson entitled “Composer Flashcards.” You can download the PDF file there. The directions are included there as well, but I’ll copy them here: Print the composer flashcards double-sided and cut into fourths. You might also want to print on cardstock or use Avery #4750. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks!
Not one woman composer? Clara Schuman, Amy Beach …
I don’t have women composers in this particular course, but I do in lots of others!
See these:
How to Use Music Lessons for Women’s History Month: https://musicinourhomeschool.com/music-lessons-for-womens-history-month/
Maria Theresa Paradis is featured in the Composer Study With 10 Lesser-Known Composers course. See her lesson here: https://learn.musicinourhomeschool.com/courses/1140361/lectures/24481161
Amy Beach is also a part of the Composer Study With 10 Lesser-Known Composers course and her lesson can be found here: https://learn.musicinourhomeschool.com/courses/1140361/lectures/24481149
Women in the Music Appreciation: Middle Ages through Classical Era course
Hildegard of Bingen is one of the earliest women composers we still have music from. See her lesson here: https://learn.musicinourhomeschool.com/courses/music-appreciation-middle-ages-thru-classical-era/lectures/1466062
Women in the Music Appreciation of the Romantic Era course
Clara Schumann was a wonderful composer and musical performer who was married to a great composer (Robert Schumann) and friends with another (Johannes Brahms). See her lesson here: https://learn.musicinourhomeschool.com/courses/183108/lectures/2774000
Fanny Mendelssohn composed over 460 compositions. Learn about her here: https://learn.musicinourhomeschool.com/courses/183108/lectures/2774003
The link for Fur Elise is broken. This is another version we found: https://youtu.be/s71I_EWJk7I
Thanks! I’ll fix it up above.
–Gena