User:Willi Gers07/Quintessential Music Lists

These lists represent what I think are the most quintessential, representative pieces of music, of various genres.

List of quintessential concertos

• Piano: Ludwig van Beethoven, Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Opus 58
• Guitar: Joaquín Rodrigo, Concierto de Aranjuez

• Orchestra: Béla Bartók, Concerto for Orchestra; you don't even have to think about this one. Jennifer Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra may be fun for musicians, but it's boring for the listeners. Jay Greenberg's Symphony No. 5 is, to an extent, modelled on Bartók's Concerto, but it's definitely a symphony.

• • Flute: Antonio Vivaldi, Flute Concerto "Il Gardelino" RV 428
  • Oboe: Vincenzo Bellini, Oboe Concerto in E-flat major
  • Clarinet: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A major, K. 622
  • Bassoon: Mozart, Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major, K. 191
  • Horn: Mozart, Horn Concerto No. 4 in E-flat major, K. 495. He wrote four of them, all good, and three are in the same key. It's a tough choice.
  • Trumpet: Joseph Haydn, Trumpet Concerto in E-flat major, Hob. VII e 1; it might not have been the first for the fully chromatic trumpet, but it's the first in our hearts as far as trumpet concertos are concerned.
  • Trombone: Michael Haydn, Trombone Concerto in D major
  • Tuba:
  • Timpani: Georg Druschetzky, Timpani Concerto. This is the only timpani concerto I have ever heard.
  • Violin: Johannes Brahms, Violin Concerto in D major. Tchaikovsky's is a close second. A tough call, but my call to make.
  • Viola: Sally Beamish, Viola Concerto (1995)
  • Cello: Antonín Dvořák, Cello Concerto in B minor, Opus 104, Burghauser 191. This is the cello concerto Brahms wished he could have written.
  • Double bass: Serge Koussevitsky, Double Bass Concerto, Opus 3

List of quintessential symphonies

By number

1. Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1 in D major
2. Johannes Brahms, Symphony No. 2 in D major
3. Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 in E-flat major
4. Robert Schumann, Symphony No. 4 in D minor
5. Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 5 in C minor
6. Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 6 in A minor
7. Anton Bruckner, Symphony No. 7 in E major
8. Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 8 in G major
9. Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 in D minor
10. Dmitri Shostakovich, Symphony No. 10 in E minor

By key

• C major, Joseph Haydn, Symphony No. 97 in C major
• G major
• D major
• A major
• E major