Comments on: Top 10 Best Known Classical Melodies

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 04:23:30 +0000

Missed “In the hall of the mountain king” by Edvard Grieg. Anyway, if it is to pick a 10 pieces list, this seems well done.

By: jj

jj — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:11:59 +0000

Oops, small edit to above: “3) The Wedding Processional from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mendelssohn” — that should be “Wedding March”, not “Wedding Processional” (although the piece’s function in the suite is as a processional).

By: jj

jj — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:14:49 +0000

Before reading the list, I created a list in my own head, and there was 60% cross-over (numbers 10,7,5,3,2,1). The ones that I thought of that weren’t on this list are: 1) Pomp and Circumstance by Elgar (the “song” played at high school graduation); 2) The Nutcracker Suite by Tchaikovsky; 3) The Wedding Processional from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Mendelssohn (often utilized in tv and film as a celebratory wedding recessional after the bridal couple is married); and 4) Carmen Overture by Bizet.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 08:11:08 +0000

x best pon.. Fur Elise x dak, pastu yg Canon in D pon x dak.. kata known.. x pon..

By: John Sinthe

John Sinthe — Tue, 22 May 2012 03:36:05 +0000

Should have swapped Minuet In G for Beethoven’s Fur Elise.

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 23:00:53 +0000

Dumb comment Julius. Beethoven IS the bridge between “classical” and “romantic.” Wagner and Richard Strauss are certainly not “classical” or hardly even “romantic” either. This list is clearly using the word “Classical” to refer to the contemporary concept of the WEstern Classical canon, the way its used as a genre today, and not to delineate musical periods.

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:57:52 +0000

Regarding No. 5 and No.8…….No.5 Bach’s “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” always reminds me to the opening music to the cult movie “Rollerball” starring James Caan. And No. 8 Richard Strauss’ “Also Spake Zarathustra” was the entrance music used by Ric Flair, the professional wrestler

By: Snowflake

Snowflake — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:18:36 +0000

That video posted under the name Yanni’s Aria is the Flower Duet from Delibe’s opera Lakme (sorry no accent on the e). Odd choice of orchestration, no?

By: Ngoble

Ngoble — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 08:10:56 +0000

Given that William Tell (or Wilhelm, whichever you prefer) is the namesake of my home town (Tell City, Indiana), #10 of this list is important enough to us that at the concert band performance as part of the town festival’s kickoff, we would always play the Overture.

By: Cookies

Cookies — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:36:34 +0000

Where is Fur Elise?