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1001 Classical Recordings you must hear before you die (2007) – ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1844035794 – ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1844035793

A brief History of Classical Music

AOTY Album of the year

Chronologie de la musique classique occidentale

Classical.Net with lists and timelines

Composers of the 20th and 21st Centuries

Cronologia dei compositori e dei principali artisti, scrittori e librettisti

Dubal David, The essential canon of classical music (2001)

Enciclopedia della Musica De Agostini (1995) – ISBN-10: ‎ 8841520558 – ISBN-13‏: ‎ 978-8841520550

Gramophone’s Recordings of the Year: 2000 to 2024

Hit Parade Italia

List of 21st-century classical composers

Phillips Rick, The essential classical recordings. 101 CDs (2004)

Wikipedia: Timeline of musical events


1100 Anonymous, Carmina Burana

1100 Hildegard of Bingen, Antiphons

1300 Guillaume de Machaut, Ballades

1300 Francesco Landini, Ballatas and Songs

1447 Guillaume Dufay, Motets

1460 Antoine Busnoys, Motets

1497 Jean de Ockeghem, Alma redemptoris mater

1502 John Browne, Stabat mater

1514 Josquin des Prez, Missa Pange lingua

1530 John Taverner, The Western Wynde Mass

1546 Nicolas Gombert, Motets

1547 Cristóbal de Morales, Motets

1555-1604 Orlande de Lassus, Motets

1563 Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Papae Marcelli

1564 Antonio de Cabezón, Diferencias

1565 Thomas Tallis, Lamentations of Jeremiah

1567 Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina, Missa Papae Marcelli

1569 Thomas Tallis, Spem in alium

1572 Tomás Luis de Victoria, O magnum mysterium

1582 Francisco Guerrero, Battle Mass

1587-1651 Claudio Monteverdi, Madrigals

1591 William Byrd, My Ladye Nevells Book

1592-1595 William Byrd, Masses

1594 Carlo Gesualdo, Terzo libro di madrigali a cinque voci

1594-1611 Carlo Gesualdo, Madrigals

1597-1612 John Dowland, Lute Songs

1597-1615 Giovanni Gabrieli, Sacrae symphoniae

1598-1609 John Wilbye, Madrigals

1600 Orlando Gibbons, Anthems

1600-1621 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Organ Works

1604 John Dowland, Lachrimae or Seaven Teares

1607 Claudio Monteverdi, Orfeo

1607 Claudio Monteverdi, Orfeo

1608-1637 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Keyboard Works

1610 Claudio Monteverdi, Vespers

1610 Thomas Weelkes, Anthems

1613-1617 Thomas Campion, Books of Ayres

1619 Claudio Monteverdi, Settimo libro di madrigali

1620 Thomas Tomkins, Anthems

1624 Claudio Monteverdi, Combattimento

1630 John Jenkins, Fantasias

1630 William Lawes, Consort Setts

1636 Heinrich Schütz, Musikalische Exequien

1637 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Primo libro di toccate

1640 Claudio Monteverdi, Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria

1640 Gregorio Allegri, Miserere mei Deus

1643 Claudio Monteverdi, L’incoronazione di Poppea

1645 Heinrich Schütz, Le sette parole di Cristo dalla croce

1649 Giacomo Carissimi, Jephte

1650 Barbara Strozzi, Cantatas

1650 Giacomo Carissimi, Jephte

1651 Francesco Cavalli, La Calisto

1660 Heinrich Schütz, The Christmas Story

1668-1707 Dietrich Buxtehude, Organ Music

1674 Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, Mystery Sonatas

1676-1694 Henry Purcell, Anthems

1678 Henry Purcell, Chacony in G minor

1680 Henry Purcell, Fantasias

1680-1700 Michel-Richard de Lalande, Grand Motets

1682 Arcangelo Corelli, Concerto grosso op.6 n.8

1683 John Blow, Venus and Adonis

1683-1689 Henry Purcell, Dido and Aeneas

1686 Jean-Baptiste Lully, Armide

1688-1720 Alessandro Scarlatti, Cantatas

1689 Juan de Araujo, Dixit Dominus

1690 Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Te Deum

1692 Henry Purcell, The Fairy Queen

1694 Henry Purcell, Come Ye Sons of Art, Away

1698 Antonio Caldara, Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo

1700 Antonio Vivaldi, Gloria, RV 589

1700 Arcangelo Corelli, Twelve Concerti Grossi, op. 6

1705-1748 Johann Sebastian Bach, Preludes, Fantasias, Toccatas & Fugues

1706-1747 Jean-Philippe Rameau, Pièces de clavecin

1708-1714 Georg Philipp Telemann, Trumpet Concerto in D major

1711 Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto for Two Trumpets

1711 Antonio Vivaldi, L’estro armonico

1712 Antonio Vivaldi, Stabat mater

1713-1730 François Couperin, Twenty-seven Ordres

1715-1740 Johann Sebastian Bach, Orgelbüchlein

1716 Antonio Vivaldi, Juditha triumphans

1716 François Couperin, Secondo libro, 11° ordine

1717 Georg Friedrich Händel, Water Music

1717 George Frideric Handel, Water Music

1717 Marin Marais, Pièces de viole, quatrième livre

1717-1723 Johann Sebastian Bach, Concerto for Two Violins

1717-1723 Johann Sebastian Bach, Violin Concertos

1717-1742 Johann Sebastian Bach, Orchestral Suites

1718 Johann Sebastian Bach, Prima sonata per violino in sol minore

1720 Alessandro Scarlatti, Messa di Santa Cecilia

1720 Johann Sebastian Bach, Six Suites for Solo Cello

1720 Johann Sebastian Bach, Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin

1720-1733 George Frideric Handel, Keyboard Suites

1721 Johann Sebastian Bach, Brandenburg Concertos

1721 Johann Sebastian Bach, Concerto brandeburghese n°6

1722 Johann Sebastian Bach, Clavicembalo ben temperato

1723 Johann Sebastian Bach, Magnificat

1723-1729 Johann Sebastian Bach, Great Cantatas

1724 George Frideric Handel, Guilio Cesare

1724 Johann Sebastian Bach, St. John Passion

1725 Antonio Vivaldi, The Four Seasons

1725 George Frideric Handel, Rodelinda

1725 Johann Sebastian Bach, Six English Suites

1725 Johann Sebastian Bach, Six Violin Sonatas

1726-1731 Johann Sebastian Bach, Keyboard Partitas

1726-1735 Johann Sebastian Bach, Motets

1727 George Frideric Handel, Coronation Anthems

1727 Johann Sebastian Bach, St. Matthew Passion

1728 John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera

1729 Johann Sebastian Bach, Passione secondo Matteo

1730 Domenico Scarlatti, Sonate per clavicembalo

1730 Georg Philipp Telemann, Paris Quartets

1730 Jean-Philippe Rameau, Terza raccolta (Secondo libro di pezzi per clavicembalo)

1730 Johann Sebastian Bach, French Suites

1731 Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantata n°4

1733 Georg Philipp Telemann, Tafelmusik

1733 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, La serva padrona

1734-1735 Johann Sebastian Bach, Christmas Oratorio

1735 George Frideric Handel, Ariodante

1735 Jean-Philippe Rameau, Les Indes galantes

1735-1751 George Frideric Handel, Organ Concertos

1736 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat mater

1736 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Stabat Mater

1737-1754 Jean-Philippe Rameau, Castor et Pollux

1738 George Frideric Handel, Serse

1739 George Frideric Handel, Concerti grossi, op. 6

1739 Johann Sebastian Bach, Harpsichord Concertos

1740 Domenico Scarlatti, Keyboard Sonatas

1740-1742 Johann Sebastian Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier

1741 Antonio Vivaldi, Le quattro stagioni

1741 Johann Sebastian Bach, Goldberg Variations

1742 Georg Friedrich Händel, Il Messia

1742 George Frideric Handel, Messiah

1742-1744 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Keyboard Sonatas

1747 George Frideric Handel, Judas Maccabaeus

1747 Johann Sebastian Bach, A Musical Offering

1749 George Frideric Handel, Music for the Royal Fireworks

1749 Johann Sebastian Bach, Mass in B minor

1750 George Frideric Handel, Theodora

1750 Johann Sebastian Bach, The Art of Fugue

1760 William Boyce, Eight Symphonies, op. 2

1761 Joseph Haydn, Symphonies nos. 6-8

1762 Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice

1762 Christoph Willibald Gluck, Orfeo ed Euridice

1762 Leopold Mozart, Trumpet Concerto

1762-1783 Joseph Haydn, Cello Concertos

1763-1788 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Violin Sonatas

1765 Giuseppe Tartini, Violin Sonata in G minor, “The Devil’s Trill”

1767 Christoph Willibald Gluck, Alceste

1771 Andre-Ernest-Modeste Grétry, Zémire et Azor

1771-1795 Joseph Haydn, Keyboard Sonatas

1772 Joseph Haydn, Symphony no. 45, “Farewell”

1772-1803 Luigi Boccherini, String Quintets

1773-1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, String Quintets

1775 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Violin Concerto no. 5, “Turkish”

1775-1789 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Sonatas

1777 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 9, “Jeunehomme”

1779 Christoph Willibald Gluck, Iphigénie en Tauride

1780 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sinfonia concertante in E flat major

1781 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Idomeneo, re di Creta

1782 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail

1782-1785 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, “Haydn” Quartets

1783 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mass in C minor “Great”

1783 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Serenade in B flat major, “Gran partita”

1783 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony no. 36, “Linz”

1785 Joseph Haydn, Symphony no. 83, “La poule”

1785 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 20

1785 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 21

1785 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 22

1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Concerto per pianoforte in do maggiore K. 503

1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Horn Concerto no. 4

1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 23

1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 24

1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 25

1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Quartet in E flat major

1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony no. 38, “Prague”

1786 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro

1787 Joseph Haydn, Seven Last Words

1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni

1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Don Giovanni

1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Eine kleine Nachtmusik

1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Quintetto in sol minore K. 516

1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sinfonia n°38 in re maggiore “Praga” K. 504

1788 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 26, “Coronation”

1788 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony no. 39

1788 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony no. 40

1788 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Symphony no. 41, “Jupiter”

1789 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Quintet

1789-1790 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, “Prussian” String Quartets

1790 Joseph Haydn, String Quartets, op. 64

1790 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Così fan tutte

1791 Joseph Haydn, Symphony no. 94, “Surprise”

1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ave verum corpus

1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Concerto

1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Il flauto magico

1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, La clemenza di Tito

1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto no. 27

1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Requiem

1791 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Magic Flute

1792 Domenico Cimarosa, Il matrimonio segreto

1792 Domenico Cimarosa, Il matrimonio segreto

1792 Franz Joseph Haydn, Quartetto in do maggiore op.74 n°1

1794 Franz Joseph Haydn, Sinfonia n°101

1794 Franz Joseph Haydn, Sonata per pianoforte in mi bemolle maggiore n°62

1794 Joseph Haydn, Symphony no. 104, “London”

1795 Joseph Haydn, Trumpet Concerto

1796 Luigi Cherubini, Médée

1797 Joseph Haydn, String Quartets, op. 76

1797 Joseph Haydn, Trumpet Concerto

1797 Luigi Cherubini, Medea

1798 Franz Joseph Haydn, La Creazione

1798 Joseph Haydn, Mass in D minor, “Nelson”

1798 Joseph Haydn, The Creation

1798 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C minor, op. 13, “Pathétique”

1799 Joseph Haydn, String Quartets, op. 77

1799-1832 John Field, Piano Concertos

1800 Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartets, op. 18

1800 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 1

1800 Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Sonata in F major, op. 24, “Spring”

1801 Joseph Haydn, The Seasons

1801 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, op. 27, no. 2, “Moonlight”

1802 Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata per pianoforte in sol diesis minore op.27 n°2 “Al chiaro di luna”

1802 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 2

1803 Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Trumpet Concerto

1803 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concertos no. 3

1803 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 3, “Eroica”

1803 Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Sonata in A major, op. 47, “Kreutzer”

1805 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in F minor, op. 57, “Appassionata”

1805 Ludwig van Beethoven, Triple Concerto

1806 Ludwig van Beethoven, Concerto per violino in re maggiore op.61

1806 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 4 in G major

1806 Ludwig van Beethoven, String Quartets, op. 59, “Razumovsky”

1806 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 4

1806 Ludwig van Beethoven, Violin Concertos

1807 Gaspare Spontini, La Vestale

1807 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 5

1808 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio in D major, op. 70, no. 1, “Ghost”

1808 Ludwig van Beethoven, Sinfonia n°5 in do minore op.67

1808 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 6, “Pastoral”

1809 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto no. 5 in E flat major

1810 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in E flat major, op. 81A, “Les adieux”

1810-1830 Fernando Sor, Guitar Works

1811 Carl Maria von Weber, Clarinet Concertos nos. 1 & 2

1811 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Trio in B flat major, op. 97, “Archduke”

1812 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 7

1812 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 8

1812-1862 Carl Lowe, Ballads

1813 Gioachino Rossini, L’italiana in Algeri

1813 Gioachino Rossini, Tancredi

1813 Louis Spohr, Nonet in F major

1814 Ludwig van Beethoven, Fidelio

1814-1828 Franz Schubert, Lieder

1815 Ludwig van Beethoven, Cello Sonatas, op. 102

1815-1830 Nicolò Paganini, Violin Concertos nos. 1-6

1816 Franz Schubert, Symphony no. 5

1816 Gioacchino Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia

1816 Gioachino Rossini, The Barber of Seville

1816 Luigi Cherubini, Requiem in re minore

1817 Franz Schubert, Violin Sonata in A major

1817 Gioachino Rossini, La cenerentola

1817 Nicolò Paganini, Twenty-four Caprices

1818 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in B flat major, op. 106 “Hammerklavier”

1819 Franz Schubert, Piano Quintet in A major, “Trout”

1820 Franz Schubert, Quintetto in la maggiore “la Trota” op.114

1820 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in E major, op. 109

1820-1847 Frédéric Chopin, Mazurkas

1821 Carl Maria von Weber, Der Freischütz

1821 Carl Maria von Weber, Il franco cacciatore

1821 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in A flat major, op. 110

1822 Franz Schubert, Fantasy in C major, “Wanderer”

1822 Franz Schubert, Sinfonia n°8 in si minore “Incompiuta”

1822 Franz Schubert, Symphony no. 8, “Unfinished”

1822 Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C minor, op. 111

1823 Franz Schubert, Die schöne Müllerin

1823 Ludwig van Beethoven, Diabelli Variations

1823 Ludwig van Beethoven, Missa solemnis

1824 Franz Schubert, Arpeggione Sonata

1824 Franz Schubert, Octet in F major, D803

1824 Franz Schubert, String Quartet in D minor, D810, “Death and the Maiden”

1824 Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga, String Quartets

1824 Ludwig van Beethoven, Sinfonia n°9 in re minore op.125

1824 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 9, “Choral”

1825 Felix Mendelssohn, Octet

1825 Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata in D major, D850

1825 Gioachino Rossini, Il viaggio a Reims

1825-1826 Ludwig van Beethoven, Late String Quartets

1825-1845 Felix Mendelssohn, Songs without Words

1826 Felix Mendelssohn, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

1826 Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata in G major, D894

1826 Franz Schubert, Sonata n°18 in sol maggiore op. 78

1826 Franz Schubert, String Quartet in G major, D887

1827 Franz Schubert, Fantasy in C, D934

1827 Franz Schubert, Impromptus

1827 Franz Schubert, Piano Trio in B flat major

1827 Franz Schubert, Piano Trio in E flat major, D929

1827 Franz Schubert, Winterreise

1827 Gioacchino Rossini, Mosé

1827-1829 Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartets nos. 1 & 2

1828 Franz Schubert, Fantasy in F minor for piano duet, D940

1828 Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata in A major, D959

1828 Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata in B flat major, D960

1828 Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata in C minor, D958

1828 Franz Schubert, Quintetto in do maggiore op.163

1828 Franz Schubert, Schwanengesang

1828 Franz Schubert, String Quartet in C major

1828 Franz Schubert, Symphony no. 9, “Great”

1828 Franz Schubert, Winterreise

1828 Ludwig van Beethoven, Quartetto n°16 in fa maggiore op.135

1829 Gioachino Rossini, Guillaume Tell

1829-1830 Frédéric Chopin, Piano Concertos

1829-1847 Frédéric Chopin, Nocturnes

1829-1847 Frédéric Chopin, Waltzes

1830 Felix Mendelssohn, The Hebrides, “Fingal’s Cave”

1830 Gaetano Donizetti, Anna Bolena

1830 Hector Berlioz, Sinfonia fantastica

1830 Hector Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique

1830-1837 Frédéric Chopin, Études

1831 Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto no. 1

1831 Vincenzo Bellini, La sonnambula

1831 Vincenzo Bellini, Norma

1831 Vincenzo Bellini, Norma

1832 Gaetano Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore

1832 Gaetano Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore

1832-1841 Gioachino Rossini, Stabat mater

1833 Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony no. 4, “Italian”

1834 Hector Berlioz, Harold in Italy

1835 Fryderyk Chopin, Prima ballata in sol minore op.23

1835 Gaetano Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor

1835 Robert Schumann, Carnaval

1835 Robert Schumann, Piano Sonata no. 1

1835 Vincenzo Bellini, I puritani

1835-1841 Frédéric Chopin, Ballades

1835-1852 Robert Schumann, Études symphoniques

1836 Fryderyk Chopin, Studi op.10 n°6 e n°12

1836 Fryderyk Chopin, Studi op.25 n°7

1836 Giacomo Meyerbeer, Les Huguenots

1837 Hector Berlioz, Grande messe des morts

1837 Robert Schumann, Davidsbündlertänze

1837 Robert Schumann, Pezzi fantastici op.12

1837-1838 Felix Mendelssohn, String Quartets, op. 44

1837-1877 Franz Liszt, Années de pèlerinage

1838 Robert Schumann, Fantasy in C major

1838 Robert Schumann, Kinderszenen

1838 Robert Schumann, Kreisleriana

1839 Frédéric Chopin, Piano Sonata no. 2 in B flat minor, “Funeral March”

1839 Frédéric Chopin, Preludes

1839 Hector Berlioz, Roméo et Juliette

1839-1845 Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Trios nos. 1 & 2

1840 Franz Liszt, Paraphrases & Transcriptions

1840 Robert Schumann, Dichterliebe

1840 Robert Schumann, Frauenliebe und -leben

1840 Robert Schumann, Liederkreis

1840 Robert Schumann, Liederkreis, op. 24

1840 Robert Schumann, Liederkreis, op. 39

1841 Felix Mendelssohn, Variations sérieuses

1841 Fryderyk Chopin, Notturni op.48 n°1, 2

1841 Robert Schumann, Sinfonia n°4 in re minore op.120

1841 Robert Schumann, Symphony no. 1, “Spring”

1841-1860 Richard Wagner, Der fliegende Holländer

1842 Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony no. 3, “Scottish”

1842 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Sinfonia n°3 in la minore op.56 “Scozzese”

1842 Giuseppe Verdi, Nabucco

1842 Mikhail Glinka, Ruslan and Lyudmila

1842 Robert Schumann, Piano Quartet

1842 Robert Schumann, Piano Quintet

1842 Robert Schumann, String Quartets

1842-1845 Franz Berwald, Symphonies

1843 Gaetano Donizetti, Don Pasquale

1844 Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E minor

1844 Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Concerto per violino n°2 in mi minore op.64

1844 Frédéric Chopin, Piano Sonata no. 3 in B minor

1844 Hector Berlioz, Le carnaval romain

1845 Robert Schumann, Concerto per pianoforte in la minore op.54

1845 Robert Schumann, Piano Concerto

1845-1861 Richard Wagner, Tannhäuser

1846 Felix Mendelssohn, Elijah

1846 Robert Schumann, Symphony no. 2

1847-1851 Robert Schumann, Piano Trios

1848 Charles-Valentin Alkan, Grande sonate “Les quatres âges”

1848 Johann Strauss the Elder, Radetzky March

1848 Richard Wagner, Lohengrin

1848-1885 Franz Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsodies

1849 Otto Nicolai, The Merry Wives of Windsor

1849 Robert Schumann, Concertstück for Four Horns

1849 Robert Schumann, Fantasiestück, op. 73

1850 Robert Schumann, Cello Concerto in A minor

1850 Robert Schumann, Symphony no. 3, “Rhenish”

1851 Franz Liszt, Transcendental Studies

1851 Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto

1851 Robert Schumann, Symphony no. 4

1851-1896 Johannes Brahms, Lieder

1853 Franz Liszt, Piano Sonata in B minor

1853 Franz Liszt, Sonata in si minore

1853 Giuseppe Verdi, Il trovatore

1853 Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata

1853 Giuseppe Verdi, La Traviata

1853 Robert Schumann, Scenen aus Goethes Faust

1854 Franz Liszt, Les préludes

1854 Hector Berlioz, La damnation de Faust

1854-1891 Johannes Brahms, Piano Trio no. 1

1856 Hector Berlioz, Les nuits d’été

1856-1861 Franz Liszt, Piano Concertos nos. 1 & 2

1856-1864 César Franck, Six Pièces, opp. 16-21

1857 Franz Liszt, Dante-Symphonie

1857 Richard Wagner, La Valchiria

1857-1881 Giuseppe Verdi, Simon Boccanegra

1858 Hector Berlioz, Les troyens

1858 Richard Wagner, Wesendonck Lieder

1858-1874 Jacques Offenbach, Orpheus in the Underworld

1859 Charles Gounod, Faust

1859 Giuseppe Verdi, Un ballo in maschera

1859 Johannes Brahms, Piano Concerto no. 1

1859 Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde

1860-1865 Johannes Brahms, String Sextets nos. 1 & 2

1860-1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Songs

1861 Franz Liszt, A Faust Symphony

1861 Henry Vieuxtemps, Violin Concerto no. 5

1861-1874 Johannes Brahms, Piano Quartets nos. 1 & 3

1861-1905 Edvard Grieg, Songs

1861-1921 Gabriel Fauré, Mélodies

1862 Henryk Wieniawski, Violin Concerto no. 2

1862-1864 Johannes Brahms, Piano Quintet in F minor

1862-1869 Giuseppe Verdi, La forza del destino

1863 Camille Saint-Saëns, Introduction and Rondo capriccioso

1863 Georges Bizet, The Pearl Fishers

1863 Gioacchino Rossini, Petite Messe solennelle

1863-1867 Gioachino Rossini, Petite messe solennelle

1864 Jacques Offenbach, La belle Hélène

1864-1868 Anton Bruckner, Masses nos. 1-3

1864-1901 Edvard Grieg, Lyric Pieces

1865 Richard Wagner, Tristano e Isotta

1865-1886 Johannes Brahms, Cello Sonatas nos. 1 & 2

1866 Max Bruch, Concerto per violino e orchestra n°1 op.26

1866-1870 Bedrich Smetana, The Bartered Bride

1867 Johann Strauss II, The Blue Danube

1867 Modest Mussorgsky, A Night on the Bare Mountain

1867 Richard Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

1867-1886 Giuseppe Verdi, Don Carlos

1868 Ambroise Thomas, Hamlet

1868 Camille Saint-Saëns, Piano Concerto no. 2

1868 Edvard Grieg, Piano Concerto

1868 Johannes Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem

1868 Max Bruch, Violin Concerto no. 1

1868-1876 Arrigo Boito, Mefistofele

1868-1884 Henri Duparc, Mélodies

1869-1880 Johannes Brahms, Hungarian Dances

1869-1880 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

1869-1902 Mily Alekseyevich Balakirev, Islamey

1869-1908 Modest Mussorgsky, Boris Godunov

1870 Léo Delibes, Coppélia

1870 Richard Wagner, Siegfried Idyll

1871 Giuseppe Verdi, Aida

1871 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, String Quartet no. 1

1872 Camille Saint-Saëns, Cello Concerto no. 1

1873-1875 Johannes Brahms, String Quartets

1873-1889 Anton Bruckner, Symphony no. 3

1874 Edouard Lalo, Symphonie espagnole

1874 Georges Bizet, Carmen

1874 Giuseppe Verdi, Messa da requiem

1874 Giuseppe Verdi, Requiem

1874 Johann Strauss II, Die Fledermaus

1874 Modest Musorgskij, Boris Godunov

1874 Modest Musorgskij, Quadri di un’esposizione

1874 Richard Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen

1874-1888 Anton Bruckner, Symphony no. 4, “Romantic”

1874-1922 Modest Mussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition

1875 Edvard Grieg, Peer Gynt

1875 George Bizet, Carmen

1875 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Piano Concerto no. 1

1875-1878 Anton Bruckner, Symphony no. 5

1875-1897 Hugo Wolf, Lieder

1875-1921 Gabriel Fauré, Nocturnes

1876 Alexander Borodin, Symphony no. 2

1876 Amilcare Ponchielli, La Gioconda

1876 Bedrich Smetana, String Quartet no. 1, “From My Life”

1876 Gabriel Fauré, Violin Sonata no. 1

1876 Johannes Brahms, Symphony no. 1

1876 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Rococo Variations

1876 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Swan Lake

1876 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Seasons

1877 Camille Saint-Saëns, Samson et Dalila

1877 Johannes Brahms, Symphony no. 2

1878 Arthur Sullivan, H.M.S. Pinafore

1878 Johannes Brahms, Violin Concerto

1878 Pablo de Sarasate, Zigeunerweisen

1878 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovksy, Violin Concerto

1878 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Eugene Onegin

1878 Pyoty Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 4

1878-1886 Antonín Dvorák, Slavonic Dances

1879 Bedrich Smetana, Má vlast

1879 Gabriel Fauré, Piano Quartets 1 & 2

1879-1888 Johannes Brahms, Violin Sonatas

1880 Bedrich Smetana, From the Homeland

1880 Camille Saint-Saëns, Violin Concerto no. 3

1880 Charles-Marie Widor, Symphony no. 5

1880 Gabriel Fauré, Élégie

1880 Hans Rott, Symphony in E major

1880 Jacques Offenbach, The Tales of Hoffmann

1880 Modest Mussorgsky, Khovanshchina

1880 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, 1812 Overture

1880 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Serenade for Strings

1881 Alexander Borodin, String Quartet no. 2

1881 Anton Bruckner, Symphony no. 6

1881 Johannes Brahms, Piano Concerto no. 2

1881 Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij, Concerto per violino e orchestra in re maggiore op.35

1881 Richard Wagner, Parsifal

1882 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Piano Trio in A minor

1882 Richard Wagner, Parsifal

1883 Anton Bruckner, Sinfonia n°7 in mi maggiore

1883 Anton Bruckner, Symphony no. 7

1883 Emmanuel Chabrier, España

1883 Franz Liszt, Années de pèlerinage

1883 Johannes Brahms, Sinfonia n°3 in fa maggiore op.90

1883 Johannes Brahms, Symphony no. 3

1883 Léo Delibes, Lakmé

1883 Pablo de Sarasate, Concert Fantasy on Carmen

1884 Anton Bruckner, Te Deum

1884 César Franck, Prélude, choral et fugue

1884 Jules Massenet, Manon

1885 Antonín Dvorák, Symphony no. 7

1885 Arthur Sullivan, The Mikado

1885 César Franck, Symphonic Variations

1885 Gustav Mahler, Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen

1885 Johann Strauss II, Der Zigeunerbaron

1885 Johannes Brahms, Symphony no. 4

1885 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Manfred Symphony

1885-1933 Richard Strauss, Lieder

1886 Camille Saint-Saëns, Carnival of the Animals

1886 Camille Saint-Saëns, Symphony no. 3, “Organ”

1886 César Franck, Violin Sonata in A major

1887 Alexander Borodin, Prince Igor

1887 Giuseppe Verdi, Otello

1887 Giuseppe Verdi, Otello

1887 Johannes Brahms, Double Concerto

1887 John Stainer, The Crucifixion

1887 Jules Massenet, Werther

1887 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Capriccio espagnol

1887 Richard Strauss, Violin Sonata

1887-1892 Anton Bruckner, Symphony no. 8

1887-1947 Reynaldo Hahn, Mélodies

1888 César Franck, Symphony in D minor

1888 Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 1

1888 Hugo Wolf, Mörike Lieder

1888 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Easter Festival Overture

1888 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Sheherazade

1888 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Symphony no. 5

1888-1897 Erik Satie, Gymnopédies & Gnossiennes

1888-1914 Alexander Scriabin, Preludes

1889 Antonín Dvorák, Symphony no. 8

1889 Hugo Wolf, Goethe Lieder

1889 Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov, Shéhérazade, op.35

1889 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Sleeping Beauty

1889 Richard Strauss, Don Giovanni

1889 Richard Strauss, Don Juan

1889 Richard Strauss, Tod und Verklärung

1890 Ernest Chausson, Poème de l’amour et de la mer

1890 Hugo Wolf, Spanisches Liederbuch

1890 Pietro Mascagni, Cavalleria rusticana

1890 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Queen of Spades

1890-1893 Gabriel Fauré, Requiem

1891 Johannes Brahms, Clarient Quintet

1891 Johannes Brahms, Quintetto per clarinetto ed archi in si minore op.115

1891-1904 Claude Debussy, Fêtes galantes

1891-1917 Jean Sibelius, Songs

1892 Jean Sibelius, Kullervo

1892 Johannes Brahms, Tre intermezzi per pianoforte op.117

1892 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Nutcracker

1892 Ruggero Leoncavallo, Pagliacci

1892-1893 Johannes Brahms, Klavierstücke, opp. 116-19

1892-1902 Jean Sibelius, En saga

1892-1910 Sergei Rachmaninov, Twenty-Four Preludes

1892-1913 Alexander Scriabin, Piano Sonatas

1893 Antonín Dvorák, String Quartet in F major, “American”

1893 Antonín Dvorák, Symphony no. 9

1893 Claude Debussy, String Quartet

1893 Engelburt Humperdinck, Hänsel und Gretel

1893 Erik Satie, Vexations

1893 Giacomo Puccini, Manon Lescaut

1893 Giuseppe Verdi, Falstaff

1893 Jean Sibelius, Karelia Suite

1893 Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij, Sinfonia n°6 in si minore, «Patetica», op. 74

1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovksy, Symphony no. 6, “Pathétique”

1894 Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Piano Trio no. 1

1894 Claude Debussy, Prelude a l’après-midi d’un faune

1894 Claude Debussy, Prélude à L’après-midi d’un faune

1894 Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 2, “Resurrection”

1894 Johannes Brahms, Clarinet Sonatas

1895 Antonín Dvorák, Cello Concerto in B minor

1895 Richard Strauss, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

1895 Serge Rachmaninov, Symphony no. 1

1896 Anton Bruckner, Symphony no. 9

1896 Camille Saint-Saëns, Piano Concerto no. 5, “Egyptian”

1896 Ernest Chausson, Poème

1896 Giacomo Puccini, La bohème

1896 Giacomo Puccini, La Bohème

1896 Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 3

1896 Gustave Charpentier, Louise

1896 Hugo Wolf, Italienisches Liederbuch

1896 Richard Strauss, Also sprach Zarathustra

1896 Umberto Giordano, Andrea Chénier

1896-1939 Jean Sibelius, Lemminkäinen Suite

1897 Paul Dukas, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

1897 Richard Strauss, Don Quixote

1898 Richard Strauss, Ein Heldenleben

1899 Alexander Glazunov, The Seasons

1899 Arnold Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht

1899 Edward Elgar, Enigma Variations

1899 Edward Elgar, Sea Pictures

1899 Giacomo Puccini, Tosca

1899 Jean Sibelius, Symphony no. 1

1899-1930 Louis Vierne, Organ Symphonies

1900 Antonín Dvorák, Rusalka

1900 Edward Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius

1900 Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 4

1900 Jean Sibelius, Finlandia

1901 Sergei Rachmaninov, Cello Sonata

1901 Sergei Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto no. 2

1901 Sergej Rachmaninov, Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra in do minore op.18

1901-1939 Roger Quilter, Songs

1902 Carl Nielsen, Symphony no. 2, “The Four Temperaments”

1902 Claude Debussy, Pelléas et Mélisande

1902 Francesco Cilea, Adriana Lecouvreur

1902 Gustav Mahler, Rückert Lieder

1902 Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 5

1902 Hubert Parry, I Was Glad

1902 Jean Sibelius, Symphony no. 2

1903 Alexander Zemlinsky, Die Seejungfrau

1903 Arnold Schoenberg, Pelleas und Melisande

1903 Eugen d’Albert, Tiefland

1903 Maurice Ravel, Shéhérazade

1903 Maurice Ravel, String Quartet

1903 Richard Strauss, Symphonia domestica

1903-1931 Hugo Alfvén, Swedish Rhapsodies

1903-1938 John Ireland, Songs

1904 Alexander Glazunov, Violin Concerto in A minor

1904 Alexander Scriabin, Symphony no. 3

1904 Charles Villiers Stanford, Songs of the Sea

1904 Ferruccio Busoni, Piano Concerto

1904 Giacomo Puccini, Madama Butterfly

1904 Gustav Mahler, Kindertotenlieder

1904 Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 6

1904 Leos Janácek, Jenufa

1904-1909 Anatoly Lyadov, Fairytales

1905 Claude Debussy, La mer

1905 Franz Lehár, The Merry Widow

1905 Frederick Delius, A Mass of Life

1905 Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 7

1905 Jean Sibelius, Pelléas et Mélisande Suite

1905 Jean Sibelius, Violin Concerto

1905 Maurice Ravel, Introduction and Allegro

1905 Maurice Ravel, Miroirs

1905 Richard Strauss, Salome

1905 Richard Strauss, Salome

1906 Arnold Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony no. 1

1906 Carl Nielsen, Maskarade

1906 Gustav Mahler, Sinfonia n°6 in la minore

1906 Jean Sibelius, Pohjola’s Daughter

1906 Josef Suk, Asrael Symphony

1906-1935 Charles Ives, The Unanswered Question

1907 Arnold Schönberg, Kammersymphonie op.9

1907 Frederick Delius, Brigg Fair

1907 Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 8

1907 Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, The Golden Cockerel Suite

1907 Sergei Rachmaninov, Symphony no. 2

1908 Alexander Scriabin, The Poem of Ecstasy

1908 Anton Webern, Passacaglia

1908 Arnold Schoenberg, Erwartung

1908 Arnold Schoenberg, String Quartet no. 2

1908 Claude Debussy, Images: Iberia

1908 Edward Elgar, Symphony no. 1

1908 Gustav Holst, Savitri

1908 Isaac Albéniz, Iberia

1908 Maurice Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit

1908 Maurice Ravel, Rapsodia spagnola

1908 Maurice Ravel, Rapsodie espagnole

1909 Anton Webern, Six Orchestral Pieces, op. 6

1909 Arnold Schoenberg, Five Orchestral Pieces, op. 16

1909 Gustav Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde

1909 Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 9

1909 Jean Sibelius, String Quartet “Voces intimae”

1909 Maurice Ravel, Gaspard de la nuit

1909 Ralph Vaughan Williams, On Wenlock Edge

1909 Richard Strauss, Elektra

1909 Sergei Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto no. 3

1909 Sergei Rachmaninov, The Isle of the Dead

1909-1912 George Butterworth, Songs

1909-1923 Ralph Vaughan Williams, A Sea Symphony

1909-1931 Arnold Schoenberg, Klavierstücke

1909-1939 Béla Bartók, String Quartets

1910 Alexander Scriabin, Prometheus

1910 Claude Debussy, Preludi per pianoforte

1910 Edward Elgar, Violin Concerto

1910 Engelbert Humperdinck, Königskinder

1910 Florent Schmitt, La tragédie de Salomé

1910 Franz Schreker, Der ferne Klang

1910 Fritz Kreisler, Liebesfreund & Liebesleid

1910 Gustav Mahler, Symphony no. 10

1910 Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird

1910 Richard Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier

1910-1913 Claude Debussy, Préludes, Books 1 & 2

1910-1919 Ralph Vaughan Williams, Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis

1911 Arnold Schoenberg, Gurrelieder

1911 Béla Bartók, Bluebeard’s Castle

1911 Carl Nielsen, Symphony no. 3

1911 Edward Elgar, Symphony no. 2

1911 Enrique Granados, Goyescas

1911 Gustav Mahler, Sinfonia n°10 in fa diesis maggiore

1911 Igor Stravinsky, Petrushka

1911 Jean Sibelius, Symphony no. 4

1911 Maurice Ravel, Ma mère l’oye

1911 Reinhold Glière, Symphony no. 3 “Ilya Muromets”

1911 Sergei Rachmaninov, Études-tableaux

1911 Sergey Taneyev, Piano Quintet

1912 Arnold Schoenberg, Pierrot lunaire

1912 Maurice Ravel, Daphnis et Chloé

1912 Sergei Prokofiev, Piano Concerto no. 1

1912 Sergei Rachmaninov, Vocalise and Other Songs

1913 Albert Roussel, Le festin d’araignée

1913 Aleksandr Skrjabin, Sonata per pianoforte op.70 n°10

1913 Anton Webern, Sei bagatelle per quartetto d’archi op.9

1913 Anton Webern, Sei pezzi per orchestra op.6

1913 Claude Debussy, Jeux

1913 Edward Elgar, Falstaff

1913 Igor Stravinskij, La sagra della primavera

1913 Igor Stravinsky, The Rite of Spring

1913 Sergei Rachmaninov, The Bells

1913 Wilhelm Stenhammar, Serenade

1913-1922 Ivor Gurney, Songs

1913-1931 Sergei Rachmaninov, Piano Sonata no. 2

1913-1933 Ralph Vaughan Williams, A London Symphony

1914 Erno Dohnányi, Variations on a Nursery Song

1914 Manuel de Falla, Siete canciones populares Españolas

1914 Maurice Ravel, Piano Trio

1914 Max Reger, Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart

1914 Zoltán Kodály, Duo for Violin and Cello

1914-1920 Ralph Vaughan Williams, The Lark Ascending

1915 Béla Bartók, Romanian Folk Dances

1915 Charles Ives, Concord Sonata

1915 Claude Debussy, Douze Études

1915 Franz Schreker, Die Gezeichneten

1915 Hans Pfitzner, Palestrina

1915 Karol Szymanowski, Myths

1915 Manuel de Falla, Nights in the Gardens of Spain

1915 Maurice Ravel, Trio in la minore

1915 Richard Strauss, Eine Alpensinfonie

1915 Sergei Rachmaninov, All-Night Vigil (Vesper)

1915 Wilhelm Stenhammar, Symphony no. 2

1915-1917 Claude Debussy, Sonatas

1915-1919 Jean Sibelius, Symphony no. 5

1915-1925 Manuel de Falla, El amor brujo

1915-1929 Alban Berg, Three Orchestral Pieces, op. 6

1916 Carl Nielsen, Symphony no. 4, “Inextinguishable”

1916 Charles Ives, Symphony no. 4

1916 Ernest Bloch, Schelomo

1916 Karol Szymanowski, Symphony no. 3, “The Song of the Night”

1916 Karol Szymanowski, Violin Concerto no. 1

1916 Percy Grainger, In a Nutshell

1916 Richard Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos

1916-1928 Ottorino Respighi, Roman Trilogy

1917 Erik Satie, Parade

1917 Gustav Holst, The Planets

1917 Lili Boulanger, Psalm 130, “Du fond de l’abîme”

1917 Richard Strauss, Die Frau ohne Schatten

1917 Sergei Prokofiev, Violin Concerto no. 1

1917 Sergie Prokofiev, Symphony no. 1

1917-932 Ottorino Respighi, Ancient Airs and Dances

1918 George Enescu, Symphony no. 3

1918 Giacomo Puccini, Gianni Schicchi

1918 Igor Stravinsky, The Soldier’s Tale

1918 Leos Janácek, Taras Bulba

1918-1960 Francis Poulenc, Mélodies

1919 Arnold Bax, Tintagel

1919 Darius Milhaud, Le boeuf sur le toit

1919 Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto

1919 Manuel de Falla, The Three-Cornered Hat

1919 Maurice Ravel, Le tombeau du Couperin

1919 Sergei Prokofiev, The Love for Three Oranges

1920 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Die tote Stadt

1920 Igor Stravinsky, Pulcinella

1920 Joaquin Turina, Danzas fantásticas

1920 Maurice Ravel, La valse

1920-1947 Igor Stravinsky, Symphonies of Wind Instruments

1921 Charles Ives, Three Places in New England

1921 Edgard Varèse, Offrandes

1921 Erwin Schulhoff, Suite for Chamber Orchestra

1921 Leos Janácek, Kátya Kabanová

1921 Leóš Janácek, Taras Bul’ba, rapsodia per orchestra

1921 Sergei Prokofiev, Piano Concerto no. 3

1921-1922 Béla Bartók, Violin Sonatas nos. 1 & 2

1921-1927 Edgard Varèse, Amériques

1921-1979 Federico Mompou, Cançons i danses

1922 Alban Berg, Wozzeck

1922 Carl Nielsen, Symphony no. 5

1922 Jacques Ibert, Escales

1922 Maurice Ravel, Sonata for Violin and Cello

1922 Peter Warlock, The Curlew

1922-1932 Arthur Bliss, A Colour Symphony

1922-1951 William Walton, Façade

1923 Alexander Zemlinsky, Lyric Symphony

1923 Arnold Schoenberg, Suite for Piano

1923 Arnold Schönberg, Cinque pezzi per pianoforte op.23

1923 Béla Bartók, Dance Suite

1923 Darius Milhaud, La création du monde

1923 Edgard Varèse, Octandre

1923 Eugène Ysaye, Six Solo Violin Sonatas, op. 27

1923 Igor Stravinsky, Les noces

1923 Igor Stravinsky, Octet

1923 Leos Janácek, The Cunning Little Vixen

1923-1928 Leos Janácek, String Quartets nos. 1 & 2

1923-1933 Arthur Honegger, Three Symphonic Movements

1923-1947 Frances Poulenc, Les biches

1923-1954 Joseph Canteloube, Chants d’Auvergne

1924 Alexander Zemlinsky, String Quartet no. 3

1924 Béla Bartók, The Miraculous Mandarin

1924 Ferruccio Busoni, Doktor Faust

1924 George Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue

1924 Giacomo Puccini, Turandot

1924 Giacomo Puccini, Turandot

1924 Jean Sibelius, Symphony no. 7

1924 Karol Szymanowski, King Roger

1924 Marcel Dupré, Symphonie-Passion

1924 Maurice Ravel, L’enfant et les sortilèges

1924 Maurice Ravel, Tzigane

1925 Alban Berg, Wozzeck

1925 Carl Nielsen, Symphony no. 6

1925 Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 1

1926 Frank Martin, Mass for double choir

1926 George Enescu, Violin Sonata no. 3

1926 Jean Sibelius, Tapiola

1926 Karol Szymanowksi, Stabat mater

1926 Leos Janácek, Sinfonietta

1926 Maurice Ravel, Chansons madécasses

1926-1934 Karol Szymanowski, Mazurkas

1926-1941 Sergei Rachmaninov, Piano Concerto no. 4

1927 Bohuslav Martinu, La revue de cuisine

1927 Constant Lambert, The Rio Grande

1927 Edgard Varèse, Arcana

1927 Eugène Goossens, Oboe Concerto

1927 Gustav Holst, Egdon Heath

1927 Igor Stravinsky, Oedipus rex

1927 Joseph Jongen, Symphonie concertante

1927 Leos Janácek, Glagolitic Mass

1927 Maurice Ravel, Violin Sonata

1927 Zoltán Kodály, Háry János Suite

1928 Arnold Schoenberg, Variations for Orchestra

1928 Béla Bartók, Quartetto n°4

1928 George Gershwin, An American in Paris

1928 Igor Stravinsky, Apollo

1928 Kurt Weill, Das Berliner Requiem

1928 Kurt Weill, Die Dreigroschenoper

1928 Maurice Ravel, Boléro

1929 Arnold Bax, Symphony no. 3

1929-1961 William Walton, Viola Concerto

1930 Albert Roussel, Symphony no. 3

1930 Frank Bridge, Oration

1930 Igor Stravinsky, Symphony of Psalms

1930 Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji, Opus clavicembalisticum

1930 Maurice Ravel, Piano Concerto for the Left Hand

1930 Ralph Vaughan Williams, Job

1931 Béla Bartók, Piano Concerto no. 2

1931 Edgard Varèse, Ionisation

1931 Igor Stravinskij, Concerto per violino e orchestra

1931 Igor Stravinsky, Violin Concerto

1931 Maurice Ravel, Piano Concerto in G

1931-1957 William Walton, Belshazzar’s Feast

1932 Arnold Schoenberg, Moses und Aron

1932 Charles Tournemire, L’orgue mystique

1932 Dmitri Shostakovich, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

1932 Francis Poulenc, Concerto for Two Pianos

1932 Igor Stravinsky, Duo Concertant

1932 Karol Szymanowski, Symphony no. 4

1932 Richard Strauss, Arabella

1932-1939 Francis Poulenc, Sextet

1933 Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Concerto no. 1

1933 Karol Szymanowski, Violin Concerto no. 2

1933 Kurt Weill, Die sieben Todsünden

1933 Zoltán Kodály, Dances of Galánta

1934 Dmitri Shostakovich, Cello Sonata

1934 Edward Elgar, Symphony no. 3

1934 Paul Hindemith, Mathis der Maler Symphony

1934 Ralph Vaughan Williams, Symphony no. 4

1934 Sergei Prokofiev, Lieutenant Kijé Suite

1934 Sergei Rachmaninov, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

1935 Alban Berg, Lulu

1935 Alban Berg, Violin Concerto

1935 George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess

1935 Sergei Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet

1935 Sergei Prokofiev, Violin Concerto no. 2

1935 William Walton, Symphony no. 1

1936 Alban Berg, Concerto per violino e orchestra

1936 Anton Webern, Variations, op. 27

1936 Béla Bartók, Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta

1936 Carl Orff, Carmina burana

1936 Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 4

1936 Dmitri Šostakovič, Sinfonia n°4 in do minore op.43

1936 Olivier Messiaen, Poèmes pour Mi

1936 Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings

1936 Sergei Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf

1936 Sergei Rachmaninov, Symphony no. 3

1937 Béla Bartók, Musica per archi, percussionie celesta

1937 Benjamin Britten, Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge

1937 Dag Wirén, Serenade for Strings

1937 Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 5

1937 Franz Schmidt, Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln

1937 Richard Strauss, Daphne

1938 Anton Webern, String Quartet, op. 28

1938 Béla Bartók, Violin Concerto no. 2

1938 Bohuslav Martinu, Double Concerto

1938 Francis Poulenc, Organ Concerto

1938 Herbert Howells, Hymnus paradisi

1938 Igor Stravinsky, Concerto in E flat, “Dumbarton Oaks”

1938 Paul Hindemith, Sinfonia “Mathis der Maler”

1938 Ralph Vaughan Williams, Serenade for Music

1938 Roy Harris, Symphony no. 3

1938 Silvestre Revueltas, Sensemayá

1939 Benjamin Britten, Les illuminations

1939 Benjamin Britten, Violin Concerto

1939 Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 6

1939 Joaquín Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez

1939 Michael Tippett, Concerto for Double String Orchestra

1939 Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky

1939 Sergej Prokof’ev, Sonata per pianoforte in la maggiore op.82

1939-1943 William Walton, Violin Concerto

1940 Aram Khachaturian, Violin Concerto

1940 Benjamin Britten, Sinfonia da requiem

1940 Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Quintet

1940 Igor Stravinsky, Symphony in C

1940 Samuel Barber, Violin Concerto

1940 Sergei Prokofiev, Piano Sonata no. 6

1940 Sergei Rachmaninov, Symphonic Dances

1941 Alberto Ginastera, Estancia

1941 Arthur Honegger, Symphony no. 2

1941 Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 7 “Leningrad”

1941 Manuel Ponce, Concierto del sur

1941 Michael Tippett, A Child of Our Time

1941 Olivier Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time

1941 Olivier Messiaen, Quatuor pour la fin du temps

1941 Richard Strauss, Capriccio

1941-1975 Benjamin Britten, String Quartets

1942 Aaron Copland, Rodeo

1942 Arnold Schoenberg, Piano Concerto

1942 Gerald Finzi, Let Us Garlands Bring

1942 Maurice Duruflé, Prélude et fugue sur le nom d’Alain

1942 Richard Strauss, Horn Concerto no. 2

1942 Sergei Prokofiev, Piano Sonata no. 7

1943 Benjamin Britten, Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings

1943 Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 8

1943 Paul Hindemith, Symphonic Metamorphosis after Themes by Carl Maria von Weber

1943 Ralph Vaughan Williams, Symphony no. 5

1943-1945 Béla Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra

1943-1952 Sergei Prokofiev, War and Peace

1944 Aaron Copland, Appalachian Spring

1944 Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Trio no. 2

1944 Leonard Bernstein, On the Town

1944 Olivier Messiaen, Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus

1944 Sergei Prokofiev, Cinderella

1944 Sergei Prokofiev, Symphony no. 5

1945 Béla Bartók, Piano Concerto no. 3

1945 Béla Bartók, Viola Concerto

1945 Benjamin Britten, Peter Grimes

1945 Benjamin Britten, The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra

1945 Bohuslav Martinu, Symphony no. 4

1945 Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 9

1945 Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Violin Concerto

1945 Frank Martin, Petite symphonie concertante

1945 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Bachianas brasileiras no. 5

1945 Igor Stravinsky, Symphony in Three Movements

1945 Richard Strauss, Metamorphosen

1946 Aaron Copland, Symphony no. 3

1946 Arthur Honegger, Symphony no. 3, “Symphonie liturgique”

1946 Franz Waxman, Carmen Fantasy

1946 Kurt Weill, Street Scene

1946 Sergei Prokofiev, Violin Sonata no. 1

1946 Xavier Montsalvatge, Canciones negras

1946-1947 Benjamin Britten, The Rape of Lucretia

1946-1999 Ned Rorem, Songs

1947 Arnold Schoenberg, A Survivor from Warsaw

1947 Arnold Schönberg, Trio per archi op.40

1947 Maurice Duruflé, Requiem

1947 Roberto Gerhard, The Duenna

1947 Samuel Barber, Knoxville: Summer of 1915

1947-1865 Giuseppe Verdi, Macbeth

1947-1950 Ralph Vaughan Williams, Symphony no. 6

1948 Aaron Copland, Clarinet Concerto

1948 Dmitri Shostakovich, From Jewish Folk Poetry

1948 Dmitri Shostakovich, Violin Concerto no. 1

1948 John Cage, Sonatas and Interludes

1948 Olivier Messiaen, Turangalîla Symphony

1948 Richard Strauss, Four Last Songs

1948-1993 Conlon Nancarrow, Player Piano Studies

1949 Gerald Finzi, Clarinet Concerto

1949 Gian-Carlo Menotti, The Consul

1949 Sergei Prokofiev, Cello Sonata

1949-1965 Leonard Bernstein, Symphony no. 2, “The Age of Anxiety”

1950 Luigi Dallapiccola, Il prigioniero

1950-1951 Malcolm Arnold, English Dances

1950-1952 Astor Piazzolla, Tangos

1951 Dmitri Shostakovich, Twenty-four Preludes and Fugues

1951 Francis Poulenc, Stabat mater

1951 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Guitar Concerto

1951 Igor Stravinsky, The Rake’s Progress

1951 Sergei Prokofiev, Symphony-Concerto

1951-1960 Benjamin Britten, Billy Budd

1952 Michael Tippett, The Midsummer Marriage

1952 Sergei Prokofiev, Symphony no. 7

1953 Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 10

1953 Michael Tippett, Fantasia concertante

1954 Aram Khachaturian, Spartacus

1954 Benjamin Britten, The Turn of the Screw

1954 Iannis Xenakis, Metastaseis

1954 Joaquin Rodrigo, Fantasia para un gentilhombre

1954 Leonard Bernstein, Serenade

1954 Witold Lutoslawski, Concerto for Orchestra

1955 Alan Hovhaness, Symphony no. 2, “Mysterious Mountain”

1955 Pierre Boulez, Le marteau sans maître

1955 Pierre Boulez, Le marteau sans maître

1956 Francis Poulenc, Dialogues des Carmélites

1956 Luigi Nono, Il canto sospeso

1956-1975 William Walton, Cello Concerto

1956-1984 Malcolm Williamson, Piano Works

1956-1989 Leonard Bernstein, Candide

1957 Dmitri Shostakovich, Piano Concerto no. 2

1957 Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 11, “The Year 1905”

1957 Igor Stravinsky, Agon

1957 Karlheinz Stockhausen, Gruppen

1957 Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story

1957 Michael Tippett, Symphony no. 2

1957-1964 Samuel Barber, Vanessa

1958 Luciano Berio, Sequenza per flauto solo

1958 Olivier Messiaen, Catalogue d’oiseaux

1958-2002 Luciano Berio, Sequenzas

1959 Dmitri Shostakovich, Cello Concerto no. 1

1959 Francis Poulenc, La voix humaine

1959 Hanns Eisler, Deutsche Sinfonie

1960 Benjamin Britten, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

1960 Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet no. 8

1960 Karlheinz Stockhausen, Kontakte

1960 Krzysztof Penderecki, Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima

1960-1964 Bernd Alois Zimmermann, Die Soldaten

1961 Elliott Carter, Double Concerto

1962 Benjamin Britten, War Requiem

1962 Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 13, “Babi Yar”

1962-1966 György Ligeti, Aventures & Nouvelles aventures

1964 Benjamin Britten, Curlew River

1964 Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet no. 10

1964 Giacinto Scelsi, String Quartet no. 4

1964 Goffredo Petrassi, Settimo concerto

1964 Henri Dutilleux, Métaboles

1964 Olivier Messiaen, Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

1964 Peter Maxwell Davies, Second Fantasia on John Taverner’s In Nomine

1965 Igor Stravinskij, Variazioni “alla memoria di Aldous Huxley”

1965 Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms

1967 Dmitri Shostakovich, Seven Blok Romances

1967 Rodion Shchedrin, Carmen Suite

1968 Dmitri Shostakovich, Violin Sonata

1968 György Ligeti, String Quartet no. 2

1968 Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stimmung

1969 Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 14

1969 Elliott Carter, Concerto for Orchestra

1969 György Ligeti, Quartetto per archi n°2

1969 Luciano Berio, Sinfonia

1969 Peter Maxwell Davies, Eight Songs for a Mad King

1970 Bruno Maderna, Grande aulodia, per flauto e oboe soli con orchestra

1970 Henri Dutilleux, Tout un monde lointain…

1971 Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony no. 15

1971 Elliott Carter, String Quartet no. 3

1972 Bruno Maderna, Aura

1972 Einojuhani Rautavaara, Cantus arcticus

1972 Harrison Birtwistle, The Triumph of Time

1972 Morton Feldman, Cello and Orchestra

1973 Benjamin Britten, Death in Venice

1974 Dmitri Shostakovich, String Quartet no. 15

1975 Pierre Boulez, Rituel: in memorium Bruno Maderna

1976 Elliott Carter, Sinfonia per tre orchestre

1976 Henryk Górecki, Symphony no. 3

1976 Philip Glass, Einstein on the Beach

1976 Steve Reich, Music for 18 Musicians

1977 Arvo Pärt, Fratres

1977 John Corigliano, Clarinet Concerto

1977 Toru Takemitsu, A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden

1977-1996 György Ligeti, Le grand macabre

1978 Einojuhani Rautavaara, Angels and Visitations

1978 Michael Tippett, String Quartet no. 4

-1978 Pierre Boulez, Notations

1979 John Cage, Roaratorio

1980 Brian Ferneyhough, Funérailles

1980 George Benjamin, Ringed by the Flat Horizon

1980 Jonathan Harvey, Mortuos plango, vivos voco

1980 Sofia Gubaidulina, Offertorium

1980 Tristan Murail, Gondwana

1981 John Tavener, Funeral Ikos

1981 William Bolcom, Songs of Innocence and Experience

1983 Olivier Messiaen, Saint François d’Assise

1984 Hans Werner Henze, Symphony no. 7

1984 Helmut Lachenmann, Mouvement (-vor der Erstarrun)

1984 Oliver Knussen, Where the Wild Things Are

1984 Olivier Messiaen, Livre du Saint Sacrement

1985 Alfred Schnittke, String Trio

1985 John Adams, Harmonielehre

1985 Witold Lutoslawski, Chain 2

1985-2004 György Ligeti, Études

1986 Milton Babbitt, Transfigured Notes

1986 Peter Sculthorpe, Earth Cry

1987 John Adams, Nixon in China

1987 John Tavener, The Protecting Veil

1987 Philip Glass, Violin Concerto

1988 Louis Andriessen, De Materie

1988 Ross Edwards, Maninyas

1988 Steve Reich, Different Trains

1989 György Kurtág, Officium breve

1989 Mark-Anthony Turnage, Three Screaming Popes

1992 James MacMillan, Veni, veni, Emmanuel

1992 Olivier Messiaen, Éclairs sur l’Au-delà…

1994 György Kurtág, Stele

1994 Magnus Lindberg, Aura

1994 Simon Bainbridge, Ad ora incerta

1995 Carl Vine, Percussion Symphony

1996 Mark-Anthony Turnage, Blood on the Floor

1997 Peteris Vasks, Violin Concerto, “Distant Light”

1997 Sofia Gubaidulina, Canticle of the Sun

1997 Thomas Adès, Asyla

1998 Gérard Grisey, Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil

2000 Wolfgang Rihm, Deus Passus

2001 Wolfgang Rihm, Jagden und Formen

2004 Julian Anderson, Book of Hours

2005 Igor Stravinsky, Three Movements from “Petrushka”