Top 10 Iconic Pieces of Classical Music
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1:11 #10 Rossini - William Tell Overture
2:38 #9 Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
3:48 #8 Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, K.525
4:46 #7 Richard Strauss - Einletung, oder Sonnenaufgang from Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
6:02 #6 Rossini - The Barber of Seville
7:16 #5 Beethoven - Für Elise
8:22 #4 Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
9:26 #3 Beethoven - Symphony No.9 (inc. Ode to Joy)
10:48 #2 Vivaldi - Four Seasons
Honourable Mentions:
12:11 Edvard Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King
12:21 Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee
12:33 Aram Khachaturian - Sabre Dance
12:42 J.S. Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
12:59 Pachelbel - Pachelbel's Canon
13:08 #1 Beethoven - Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67 ("Victory Symphony")
(Please like so people can see this list)
NymArcadion that flight of the bumblebee that was being played was a version by a virtuoso named Cziffra
Thank you for this list and time stamps. 😊
Thx sir!
Asian pieces?
Really?! No Chopin?
Ironic isn't it.....
Ludwig Van Beethoven What is ironic?
Beethoven always had depression crisis. Beethoven was always a sad person, in his childhood his father was very rough with him and moreover he (father) was an alcoholic. In the ending of his life Beethoven wrote the well-known "9th Symphony" or "Ode to Joy".
When he wrote the score/song/music(however) Ludwig Van Beethoven was very VERY sick, deaf and tired.
Surprisingly the people of that time (latest 18th century) didn't like his music.
Despiste of the people's disapproval, he gathered all his strength and composed one of the most recognised pieces of ALL TIME: The 9th Symphony (or Ode to Joy).
There are people who say that Ludwig Van Beethoven wrote another score, or at least started to write but never finished. There is consensus, however, that Beethoven did intend another symphony, the "10th Symphony".
Curiosity: Mozart met Beethoven one time.
TigaToons Nice but ode to joy is not the same as the 9th, it is a part of it.
Oh yah. I forgot.
is it true he indeed never really "heard" it ? how deaf was he in the end ?
Chopin and Bach: Am I a joke to you?
And Schubert
@@melodyrosales404 I can't remember if Bach was a pianist, but he was definitely an organ virtuoso
@@melodyrosales404 Yet Antonio Vivaldi's 4 Seasons is even at 2nd
@@frankjuggaloheathen1035 he wrote the 'well tempered clavier' look it up, listen to it a bit and you tell me. he used it to teach the clavier.
@@Schmendiey I feel like such a derp lol how could I forget about The Well Tempered Clavier
Canon in D: *appears*
Cellist: Aight, I'ma head out
Everybody: Aight Imma head out
Are u Antonio Salieri?
@@akalikda9284 yes
@@akalikda9284 lol. 😁😁😁😂😂😂
lamentable
I love this list because my piece is on it
Thanks very much too for putting me on
*piece not song
C'mon, you of all people should know this
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart owned by @Sam Andy 😂😂
Pal, it's a piece, not a song
I am sad not to see your piece the Turkish march on here just for its everlasting glory
I thought Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 would be on this Liszt somewhere.
Get out.
That was pretty Klavier
***** I don't know if I'll be able to Händel them.
It's Candy Time Boys and Girls jeez it's never gonna end
😂😂😂
I'm Chopin myself, i can't Handel this Liszt !
Oh. My. Gosh. 😂
Kkkkkkkkkk
If this were Reddit I'd give you a silver award for your clever comment.
Punny enough
Ben Hollywood if TH-cam had a rating system I'll give you 11 out of 10.
“Flight of the bumblebee”
15 notes a second?
Why there's any sacrilegious boi piece in the list?
If you can play it slowly you can play it quickly
It's not music it's a study
I sounded like more than 15.
If you can play it slowly you can play it quickly - A sacrilegious "violinist"
Who have listened to most of these if not all in cartoons like "Tom and Jerry" and "Looney tunes" etc
Though my late father is a musician and composer, I was introduced to classical music by way of the two cartoons mentioned. Every time I listen to Rossini's "Barber of Seville" or a part of "William Tell" I always have a silly grin on my face for images of the cartoons pass through my mind.
Pachebel's Canon always makes me cry. I have no idea why, it just brings so many emotions....
theviniso
Llamas with hats
***** That was emotional for sure, but this song makes me me feel this way since way before those videos were released.
for sure man, it's my favorite music, i cannot describe the feeling. just emotional. i think with this V for vendetta photo your favorite piece is beethoven's 5th :)
Carl johnson That and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.
theviniso from the explosion part in the movie right? hahaha, good taste
The reason Mozart wrote his Eine Kleine Nachtmusik is quite known and quite sad. When his daughter Teresa died at the age of 6 months he, broken hearted himself, wrote a fun piece to cheer up his wife Stanzi.
thank u for information)
Dance in Heaven, Teresa
someone call twoset, this is sacrilegious
Nice
Yes, so many missed pieces. Thats dumbmojo for you
@@jeremythomas4744 I know right they did not show lizst pieces 😡
I agree, neither TwoSet nor Ling Ling approve.
Classical is the most beautiful type of music.
Most beautiful but not the best
Neigh (snicker) a mention of Gustv Holst's Mars from The Planets... This list is a disgrace to classical music...
Adam Bergstrom True. Any top 10 list is. I am just butthurt that Holst didn't even get an honorable mention.
Bert The Derp The term "best" is purely a personal adjective, so you're certainly entitled to that opinion. It's certainly the most difficult to play, and playing it takes the longest to master (I've been playing the cello for almost 17 years and I still don't feel like I can play anywhere near at a professional level) but unfortunately it isn't as widely listened to as the crap we get in the charts these days =/
Agreed. Classical music just fits on everything, every situation, moments, in all kinds of emotions.
No Chopin? Are you serious?
I know right!!!!
I was expecting at least one :/
Most of the classical pieces that are considered "iconic" come from movies and other visual media. Chopin has written mostly for solo piano, so they were much less used in said medias. Also, while he has a lot of beautiful work, none really stand above the rest. But a nocturne or the "étude révolutionnaire" could have at least made honorable mention, i must agree.
bemol16 Nocturne Op 20 C Sharp Minor was used in the movie " The Pianist" which is an Oscar winning movie.
that doesn't make it an iconic piece...
1812 Overture should've got an honourable mention.
YES YOUR SO RIGHT IT'S SO ENERGETIC
It already got twelve cannons
It was in there briefly
Just so you know; the Ride of the Walkyries is NOT the prelude to Die Walkure. In fact, it opens the third (and last) act.
Fuck that. Mozart's Requiem was what we were bumpin' back in my day. Where all my 1790s kids at?
Taylor Crain dead
Mikko Saariniemi fuck his dreams XD
Wolfgang
Gang
When you realise you know most of these from Tom and Jerry XD
The classic tom and jerry
Also piano tiles 2
Exactly
And looney toons too!
Animaniacs.
Just thought I’d share:
Germans: 5
Italians: 3
Austrians: 1
Russians: 1
there is 2 russian composers in this video
Yes, but only in the honorable mentions. If you take those you have even two Germans more
@@bekluwe or 2 german less, cos of holy roman empire
No Americans.
Bernhard Klumpe
"Oh, thos Russians"
"In short, 'The Four Seasons' isn't only multifaceted and beautiful, but it was also *instrumental* in the evolution of the concerto as a classical music style."
I see what y'all did there 😉
Rigged bruh
Where is Franz on the Liszt?
Well played.
Jaxon Roorda thx
Yeahhhhh
Um... TheRe wAs alSoo FrAnZ SchUbeRt!
He went Chopin.
Eh What?!
No 1812 Overture?! Claire De Lune?! Schubert's Ave Maria? Air on the G String?!
The Sorceror's Apprentice?! Chopin's Black Key Etude and the Minute Waltz?! Pictures of an Exhibition?! Erik Satie's Gymnopedie?! Grieg's Morning Mood?! The Blue Danube?! Les Toreador by Bizet? Moonlight Sonata?! Pathetique Sonata?! Rhapsody in Blue?!
C'mon, There are so many there that should be on this list either as a Top 10 or as the Honorable Mentions! Good Gravy!!!!
Barber of Seville and maybe the Ride of Valkyries?? I know quite famous, but eh???
Please: she said quality...Debussey's commercial Clair, Ave, (Panis Angelicas before Ave Maria) MINUTE WALTZ, DANUBE????????TOREADOR!!!!!! Astonishing and I'm only a mediocre piano player but wouldn't have chosen those...Hate fur Elise which is mentioned and no Strauss Waltzes please
The Mozart's Requiem...
Eh, The Blue Danube, seriously? I'd rather not hear that song anymore lol
Never liked that particular Strauss (not Richard Strauss)
Claire, Ave, Minute, Danube,Toreador, Moonlight, Rhapsody are so commercial they've become trite. Agree about String and even love whiter shade which stole from Bach's String...gorgeous melody on strip;
Mozart' Requiem, Handel's Sarabande, Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto#2, Chopin Nocturne C minor, Overture to Taunnhauser, (exquisite by George Szell and Cleve Phil. Orch) Mozart Ave Venum Corpus...so many..nothing by Strauss, Largo Dvorak, even Chopin's Funeral March
Tom & Jerry
Disney
Looney toons
Thank you for soo much culture
War Thunder
@@yuurichito1439 Arise, Great Country" is one that always gets me pumped up
Ling Ling could play all of them at once, including the honorable mentions
finally, a Ling Ling wannabe. TWOSET REPRESEEENT
Jorel Lopez but it took him a Lang Lang time to learn them
John Boyle No he practiced 40 Hrs a day and now he can sight read all of them together
John Boyle smh we’re not talking about Lang Lang, we’re talking about Ling Ling. Look up TwoSetViolin.
@@MarieRog420 🙃 I see what you did there
my top 20 iconic classical pieces.... of course there are other good ones! These are my favs :D
1. Moonlight Sonata 1st mvmt/ 3rd movement
2. Fur Elise- Beethoven
3. Beethoven- symphony 5
4. 1812 Overture- Tchaikovsky
5. Canon in D- Pachebel
6. Fantasie Improptu- Chopin
7. eine kleine nachtmusik- mozart
8. Ode to Joy - Beethoven
9. Handel- Messiah
10. Vivaldi- 4 seasons
11. Claire de lune- Debussy
12. Marriage D'amour- Richard clayderman played this but i forgot the original composer
13. Edvard Grieg- Morning mood?
14. Ave Maria- Schubert
15. Salute d'amour- Edward elgar
16. Jesu, joy of man's desiring- Bach
17. Hungarian Rhapsody- Lizst
18. The Entertainer- Scott Joplin
19. Gavotte
20. The tempest- Beethoven
And again... where is Poet and Peasant Overture - von Suppe
Moonlight sonata. Yes!
This is the best top 20 ever....
I love Für Elise and Canon in D
Molly Webster
I loved Canon in D... until I heard that God-Awful Christmas version with the kids singing ...a MILLION times. Now, if I never hear it again, it'll be too soon.
this list should be renamed as: the top 10 movie soundtrack overused classical music pieces which you don't know the name of
not a bad name
Wow, looks like someone thinks they're better, smarter, and more classy than everyone else. Are these songs too mainstream? Hahahahaha I'll always be surprised at how low people like you will go to make themselves feel better.
You know their is a word in the title called "Iconic"
Do you know the meaning of iconic?
I agree!
Rondo Alla Turca : Am I a joke to you?
@SIU MAN LI are you really saying that the best composer that ever lived was shit?
SIU MAN LI try composing something that’s not “shit” then
It is a joke
@Carson K. Montgomery Not really. Most iconic maybe reffered to more known and liked pieces. Bach isn't really a liked composer if we take out his C major Prelude or Toccata in D, but with Beethoven and Mozart which are the most known composers anywhere, a higher number of pieces that they wrote are more well-known. Alla Turca, everybody knows it. Same with Eine Kleine, Symphony 25, 40, Fur Elise, Symphony 5, 9 ( Ode to Joy ), Moonlight Sonata. Maybe that's why J.S.B isn't on the list.
@Carson K. Montgomery its more focused on popularity not for classical musicians, but for normal people, so no bach isnt gonna appear, although the toccata does deserve a place.
Moonlight sonata is a masterpiece yet it's not on the list?
Alfy White exactly very disappointed
Masterpieces doesn't mean they are ironic
龍力士 it is pretty heckin’ iconic though, silly
@Ambre D Do you mean like Debussy or Ravel. They are right there along with the Germans. But also with the Russian composers to be honest.
@Ambre D Do you watch two set?
Im my opinion a top ten list is absolutely insufficiant here. There are so many wonderful pieces of music that would fit in this list:
Clair de lune (Claude Debussy)
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune (Claude Debussy)
Gymnopédie 1 (Eric Satie)
Forellenquintett (Franz Schubert)
Matthäuspassion (J.S. Bach)
Weihnachtsoratorium (J.S. Bach)
Menuett (Luigi Boccherini)
Pizzicato (Léo Delibes)
Bolero (Maurice Ravel)
Die Moldau (Bedrich Smetana)
Symphony 40 g minor (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Requiem (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Die Zauberflöte: Aria of the Queen of the night (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart)
Romeo and Juliet (Peter Tschaikowsky)
Piano concerto 1 b flat minor (Peter Tschaikowsky)
Pomp and Circumstance (Edward Elgar)
Carmen: Habañera (Georges Bizet)
Pictures at an exhibition (Modest Mussorgsky)
t.b.c.
Before I forget:
The Toccata und Fuge d-moll (d minor) BWV 565 is an ORGAN piece! Understood?
Organ!
ORGAN!!!
O R G A N ! ! ! ! !
And: The Four Seasons are best known for their first movement, the spring ...
Claus Appel Why does everyone prefer Gymnopiede over Gnossieme???
I think it's because they are better known.
Personally I put the Gymnopédie here because of adolescence memories (her name was Birgit) ... *sigh*
+Claus Appel
It's a top 10, not a top 50.
Missile I know, but it's so difficult to make a decision. That's the reason why I wrote that a top 10 list is insufficiant here ...
Claus Appel that doesn't look like 10 pieces to me
I admit, this lady slayed these names😏
Ohhhhh~
Ayanna Sarr her pronunciation is awful, she got them almost all wrong hahah
Ayanna - just in case you're interested, the past tense of 'slay' is 'slew', not 'slayed'...
Actually, slayed and slew are both correct.
Actually, after looking it up further, it seems you are indeed correct that it should be slew. However, an increasing amunt of people, especially in the US say slayed, and it's starting to become accepted.
I so wanted Debussy's Clair de Lune to be on this list. My favorite movie use was the end of Frankie & Johnny with Michelle Pfieffer and Al Pacino. Frankie finally begins to feel hope and optimism about her growing feelings for Johnny. It's a lovely moment for this musical piece as we watch her and other cast members slowly experience a new day as the sun just begins to rise.
I think most of us must have heard these masterpieces for the first time in various cartoon series, like Tom & Jerry, Looney Tunes, Disney, etc. Am I right?
Raju Verghese Yeah
i've heard most of these in Tom and Jerry xD
Geekroids a lot of classical musicians fled to America in WW2
Ganondorf 1100 thet wouldnt be classical they would be 20th century composers
Tom and jerry!!!! best show ever
and yeah most of the songs was used in tom and jerry
Geekroids so true jajaja
Geekroids same
Finally a list where you can't ignore Europe in.
Please note, we're only including pieces from American compose-- DIE WATCHMJO!!!!!!!
aww poor babies -_-
These humans souls - the composers- what GIFT they left the whole world with!!!! Lives worth being lived!!! I’m grateful for these past souls... artists are so important!!
All of these pieces of music are so timeless and they will never die. Iconic, revolutionary and contemporary. ❤️
Missing: Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, Holst’s The Planets (particularly Mars and Jupiter), and Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody #2 (another cartoon staple).
I would add the Bolero by Ravel too.
and chopin ballade no 1 and beethoven's emperor piano concerto. i prefer neptune and uranus
1812 overture
Aida?
And the firebird
#10: Rossini - William Tell Overture
#9: Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker Suite
#8: Mozart - Eine kleine Nachtmusik
#7: Strauss - Enleitung, oder Sonnenaufgang (Introduction, or Sunrise)
#6: Rossini - The Barber of Seville
#5: Beethoven - Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor (Fur Elise, the one everything thinks is so hard)
#4: Wagner - Ride of the Valkyries
#3: Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 (divine and glorious perfection)
#2: Vivaldi - The Four Seasons
#1: Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 in C minor (aka dun dun dun duuuunnnn)
Honorable mentions: Grieg - In the Hall of the Mountain King, Rimsky-Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee, Khachaturian - Sabre Dance, Bach - Toccata and Fugue in D minor, Pachelbel - Canon.
No Dvorak or Debussy whatsoever. :(
Luka Puka should at least have mentioned dvorak 9 :((
Debussy isn't classical is he?
Dvorak’s Allegro con fuoco from the New World Symphony is too iconic in my opinion to not be on the list
Clayton Young agreed
Emily Doucet but what about the Danse macabre
My favorite Mojo list ever! keep up the good work.
And here I was thinking Watch Mojo was only for pop culture and movie clips. Not that I have a problem with that, but it's a great change of pace. The pronunciation of the names of the pieces and composers is also spot on from what I know. A little thing, but it makes a difference. Wonderful video!
Moonlight sonata should've been there
3rd movement
Even silence should've been there
Indeed 3rd movement..
Yup
@@AG-fv9od
I think the movement is better touching the hearts better than amazing us by speed and skills and that doesn't mean the first one has no skills it's the most one had..
What about the 2nd movement of Dvorak's New World Symphony?
Or the 4th movement? :P
+Matthew Emmett The 4th movement is the most iconic I think.
I love the 2nd movement
Or the 3rd movement
+唐智余 It's great to but my favorite is 2nd movement
Liebestraum by Frank Lizst is my favourite. Thank you for this though, I’m sure all parts of my brain lit up on hearing all of this music. Wonderful. ☺️😊☺️
My friend: how do you know all these music?
me: piano tiles
Did not expect this comment but glad i found it 😏
Tom and Jerry
TH-cam and Piano Tiles 2
OMG yassss
Every time I hear the Barber of Seville, I involuntarily start massaging the air with my fingers and toes.
Do flowers also start growing out of your head?
Lloyd B Sadly, no.
+Bruce DaCynic that's to bad
Alexa Charbonneau You do know that he was referencing that right?
GuitaristZag...um, I'm a boy, lol.
I like her manner to pronounce german words D
*xD
hahaha :D
It's horrible, as a swede i have swedish as first language and english as second but i understand german quite well as well as tiny bits of other languges. German is quite an easy language to pronounce, but it sounds like she is trying to make english out of any other language she tries to pronounce.
My ears are hurting from hearing "Einleitung" und "Sonnenaufgang" X(X(X( German is not my first language, but even i can pronounce it better T_T
And Russian names. But Pyotr is really hard to pronounce for non-Russian native speakers. It should sound more like "pötr" read with German rules :D
Four Seasons over the 9th? Blasphemy
kiwi And they even used the least popular parts of four seasons to represent it in this video
Well to be fair they couldn't give Beethoven the top 3 spots.
Personally i think the 9th should have been in the first position
Weird how they didn't play spring in the video and chose summer instead
Every part of the 4 seasons is memorable! Except the andante and largo parts lmao
I'm really shocked that the 1812 Overture from Pyotr Illytch Tchaikovsky wasn't on here. Neither was Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Nor Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Yet Beethoven gets three spots, Richard Wagner gets two and Rossini gets two. So those three composers net 7 out of 10 spots in the top ten.
Here's my Top 10 (In no particular order):
10. Carnival of the Animals (Camille Saint-Saens)
9. Claire de Lune (Claude Debussy)
8. Ride of the Valkyries (Wagner)
7. William Tell Overture (Rossini)
6. The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)
5. Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart)
4. The Nutcracker (Tchaikovsky)
3. Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven) (Yes, the Fur Elise was great, but the three part Moonlight Sonata was much better)
2. Symphony #9 "Ode to Joy" (Beethoven)
1. 1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky)
Honorable Mentions:
- Symphony #2, "The Resurrection" (Gustav Mahler)
- The Brandenburg Concertos (Johann Sebastian Bach)
- Flight of the Bumblebee (Rimsky-Korsakov)
- Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" (Mozart)
- Symphony #10 (Dimitri Shostakovich)
- Festive Overture (Dimitri Shostakovich)
- Canon in D (Johann Pachabel)
- Requiem (Mozart's unfinished, final work)
- Turkish March (Mozart)
- La Traviata (Guiseppe Verdi)
- Carmina Burana (Carl Orff) (Even if one only listens to "O Fortuna", the entire work is very good)
- Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)
- A Night on Bald (bare) Mountain (Modest Mussorgsky)
- Pictures at an Exhibition (Modest Mussorgsky)
- Nocturne #20 in C (Frederic Chopin)
- Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Variation 18 (Sergei Rachmaninov)
- Die Fledermaus (Strauss)
- Piano Concerto #1 in B (Tchaikovsky)
- Marche Slave (Tchaikovsky)
- Capriccio Italien (Tchaikovsky)
- Peer Gynt (Edward Grieg)
Scorehound better list than watchmojo’s but everyone has a different opinion and i stand by you in this one!
Thanks for the list, I'm putting together a playlist
Beethoven 5 u dumbo
The planets? (Holst) I think that should be there somewhere
PatrickTheSTARwins 24 nah not in the top ten
I'm always impressed by how accurately/well the narrator/commentator pronounces european words lol.
I know right?, those German pronunciations
+Some One i can't say the name of the spaced odyssey music so i just say its the done played in the space movie
+nos0323 ainah klainah naktmuhzik was priceless.
+julijakeit Rikard Wagner and Bait Oven beats that :P
Tiago Almeida
Actually, I have not listened to that part and later I heard "Ainehlehitung oder Sonenaufgehnn alzo zprak Zarafrustra"...
People may say this stuff is boring, but these are the most genius musicians to ever live.
I don't think anybody thinks these songs are boring... just the 90% of classical music that is in fact fairly boring
I don't find it boring while studying.
I adore all of these pieces, bravo! Happy to see The Four Seasons get its rightful place, it's amazing
WatchMojo: Bach is the best classical composer
Also WatchMojo: only gives him an honorable mention
That didn’t escape my notice either. Also WatchMojo Beethoven and Mozart are interchangeable, but only 1 Mozart mention to Beethovens 3. Also included a song with vocals when the said they wouldn’t.
Seriously.... I was waiting at least a honorable mention for Antonin Dvorak and his New World Symphony, Also there's no The Blue Danube from Strauss II.
Honestly, Largo from the New World Symphony is my favorite piece of classical music ever.
Adagio is good too
insurgente07 Do you know how many great pieces of Classical music exist out there? they cannot mention all of them, that'd require half an hour of video at least.
Gravitynaut You mean the epic horns part? Yeah, I love that one too... But I also love the Moldavia by Bedrich Smetana or the Ride of the Valkyries by Richard Wagner...
I was anticipating The Blue Danube too, especially since it's practically synonymous with word 'waltz' in the modern mind.
It's pretty much what I would have expected. Interesting that Beethoven had what, three of the top ten? Somebody once told me, the definition of an intellectual is someone who can hear the 'William Tell Overture' and NOT think of "The Lone Ranger."
+Steven Torrey That's funny. Unfortunately, if you're speaking to someone under the age of about 35, he/she won't know what the William Tell Overture *or* the Lone Ranger was.
+retnavybrat im 18 an i know both about "William Tell Overture" and "The Lone Ranger" I compose music aswell an I know multiple Composer's who inspired me into music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig Van Beethoven an Georg Frederich Händel an Antonio Vivaldi and many more
Shaun Hicks You are a ray of hope. : )
That sounds douchey. "intellectual" is normally defined as "someone who agrees with me" in my experience.
Kudos to shows like the Lone Ranger, Looney Tunes, etc for bringing classical music to the the masses. I'll take that over inane things like the Friends theme.
... or a foreigner who never watched The Lone Ranger... (sacrilege!!!)
I have literally been searching for the name of O Fortuna for hours and now that this video has led me to it I can finally sleep happily 😌
Really love #2 Vivaldi’s four seasons especially the summer part, you can really heat where speed metal get there inspiration from, the violin speed 🎻 are truly impressive and that where composed so freaking long ago
Yo my homie Wolfgang made it
Hahahahaha love this comment
Robert Col im a mozart and beethoven fan
Robert Col Much love Amadeus!
Robert Col kill them all
Robert Col yeh so proud of wolferl :))
1833 for Toccata and Fugue in D minor huh...had no idea Bach was close to 150 years old when he composed that..
One of his lost hits ;) Glad I wasn't the only one who caught that shit!
Yeah I noticed that too lol
We have no clear mention of when the piece was written. The first publication of the work was in 1833, through the work of Felix Mendelssohn. We can only guess that the piece was most likely written between 1700 and 1750
bach is not even classical...
yeah he's a baroque
Watchmojo, big thank you, have been looking for the name of clearly what was o fortuna for 7 years now 😂😂🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️. Was young then and didn't know what to search for. Went through all of Mozart and Beethoven's famous symphonies till searched for famous orchestra pieces and found this. FINALLY!!!!!
we classical musicians just call him Tchaikovsky
So does everyone else, but they say the full name for the sake of the list. As they do for everyone else.
Tchaiky boi
I call him Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский.
Tchaik yes
I love how she says the german names
I've never heard a native English speaker pronounce German that good before
“Eine kleine Nachtmusic,” “ene Leetung oh ne Sohnenaufgang”
It was terrible
You mean wrongly?
Beethoven's Fifth isn't called "Victory", it's the Fate-symphony...
+Cedric Liesens Damn Americans!
No, this is correct, in a strange way. During WWII, the Morse code pattern for the letter "V" was "dit-dit-dit-dah", mimicking the opening theme of the 5th Symphony. As V is 5 in Roman numerals, and a popular Allied forces motto was "V for Victory", this is where the unusual, and probably coincidental nickname came from. It's ironic since Beethoven was German, though.
However, you are right about the primary theme. It is called the "Fate motif/theme".
***** No the third symphony was erorica
+Kren Wenzel can confirm ! I own it , you are right !
While is is true that the opening line represents fate knocking at the door (and was used as meaning victory for the Allies durng WWII), the finale strongly suggests victory over destiny.
Simply excellent, thank you. "All art is a gift of the Holy Spirit. When this light shines through the mind of a musician, it manifests itself in beautiful harmonies." ~ Baha'i Faith
My favorite is Für Elise, both to listen to & to play. This piece takes you on a wonderful, emotional journey! Pretty good list, Mojo. Bravo! 💖👏👏👏
Yes but it's annoying, it's so much overplayed
This was good I guess considering it's just for Iconic pieces but no Chopin ? Really ? 😒
+jake artres ik also there was no bach :|
+jake artres Chopin was a Romantic composer, not a Classical one. And Bach was Baroque.
duodude55 but Romantic and Baroque are still classical. They didn't strictly define Classical as the era between Romantic and Baroque. This list is about Classical music in general.
duodude55 yes. most of the time people classify all of the 3 eras of music into 1
+jake artres These seem to me the "Iconic" pieces for people who are largely ignorant of the finer points of classical music. :-(
10:50 Did she just flip me off!?
TIMESTAMPS:
1:12 10# William Tell Overture From "William Tell" by Gioachino Rossini
2:38 #9 The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
3:49 #8 Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4:47 #7 Einleitung, oder Sonnenaufgang from "Also Sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30 by Richard Strauss
6:02 #6 The Barber of Seville, or The Futile Precaution by Gioachino Rossini
7:19 #5 Fur Elise (Bagatelle No. 25 in A Minor) by Ludwig Van Beethoven
8:22 #4 Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walkure by Richard Wagner
9:26 #3 Symphony No. 9 by Ludwig Van Beethoven
10:48 #2 The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
13:08 #1 Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 by Ludwig Van Beethoven
Thanks so much for the finest top 10..👌😊🎶🎊
Damn that chick was going nuts on the playing flight of the bumble bee
+IIGrayfoxII Yeah - made me wonder if the title came from the music, or from the pianist's fingers being blurred like bumblebee wings from having to move so fast...
+IIGrayfoxII +mastick You have to if it's to sound right. Anyway, it's played at 200 beats per minute for a quarter note, and those are 1/16th notes. Yeah. It's not just fast, it's damned fast! Rimsky-Korsakov wrote the opera it's from. The scene is where the Tsar's son is magically changed into a bee so he could fly off to find his father.
Danny Kaye (comedian, musician, actor, can't read music) conducted a NY Philharmonic of it that is hysterical if you can find it. He's a fabulous musician.
+Greg Schmidt - Danny Kaye? Oh man, I have _got_ to see if I can find that. He's second only to Victor Borge in my book when it comes to mixing music and comedy.
I saw him once on TV conduct it (yeah, I'm that old). He did it that time with a fly swatter. Hysterical!
+IIGrayfoxII - That was Yuja Wang playing "Flight of the Bumble Bee". She is one of the most gifted and truly amazing classical pianists in the world. I have seen her entire rendition of the piece on YT, and you have to stop and wonder how she does it.
"Top 10 pieces of classical music that you've heard of because they've been on telly/in films /in Bugs Bunny cartoons a lot".
Dave "The Daddy" Longman
actually I thought the same 😂😂👌
It does say "Iconic" in the title.
Hey, many kids know classical music because of Bugs Bunny cartoons. Don't knock it.
Dave "The Daddy" Longman haha haha haha haha haha haha haha hahahahaha
That kind of defines "iconic", since the piece needs crossover to mainstream and general public recognition in order to be considered iconic.
04:47 didn’t know she could put on an accent like that until now. And she keeps going too!
I’m loving the disembodied voice’s pronunciation . Homework!
I love to see Bach's Toccata dated in 1833 while the composer died in 1750. Stick to movies please.
it was first published in 1833.
+R Rittongar Little if any of Johann Sebastian Bach's pieces were published before Felix Mendelssohn discovered and published them in the 19th century.
It has been written in the 18th century (around 1705) which is also why this piece is extraordinary. To say 1833 does not give enough credit to the visionary technic. Nothing else matters. Star wars was remastered in 2004 but is still dated 1973. Sorry for the comparision but you get my point.
R Rittongar Well, they can't know when the piece was written but they can know when it was published. They just decided to give you a more precise year, even though it isn't the year of writing.
And they annihilate 50% of the reason why it is iconic...
In my humble opinion, this isn't a very good Liszt.
Austin Casey that joke was just sad, you ruined my favourite composer
You need to step Bach and take a look at your life. I guess some people just can't Handel the truth.
Austin Casey 😂😂😂
Austin Casey Savage , I like it
Austin Casey This video is on the Chopin block.
Wow. One of your best ever lists.
What a beautiful list! I wish Rebecca could narrate my life on a daily basis, my life would be so much better! She's got the face of a saint & the voice of a symphony.
Notice that it says "Iconic" rather than "Best."
Rob, for someone so "well versed" in music you're absolute shit in reading comprehension. The point of the statement was that these are iconic and *not* the best. Which you then got precisely backwards and argued with. Congrats?
Danse Macabre - Camille Saint Saëns
Carmen Suite No 1 Les Toréadors- Bizet
Laura Sánchez Arango LOVE IT
And "Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso" by Camille SS?
You hit them all including the honorable mentions!!!!
Ode to Joy is my most favorite if y'all ask me.. i just love that masterpiece a lot .. it really brings me joy everytime i listen to it.
It kills me that none of Chopin's work is on here, he's my favorite composer
True...
+Kylea Neuendorf ye, but honestly his works arent that famous to non musician people (except 2 nocturnes and a waltz maybe)...on the other hand, everyone knows beethoven 5th
really they only played pieces well known to the mainstream world
Yes, but it's iconic music, or well known music, so since a lot of people are ignorant... well, that's what happens.
It's not as famous as the others, but nocturne 02 op 9 should have been on there... Somewhere...
Pachelbel's Cannon in D in honorble mention??? WTF is this list? 85% of the popular music is based on Pachebel's Cannon.
I doubt it. Pachelbel was not much of a military man, I believe...
I'm sorry for my bad english.
Meh. Don't be! I was just messing around with you. I guess I should apologise instead... ;)
I understood your sarcasm, lol. But then again I keep making the same mistake over and over again :P
pachebelle's cannon is associated with weddings, they said they wouldn't include it
12:44 wtf this says that bach’s bwv 565 was composed in *1 8 3 3*
my mans be writing pieces after he died
Good old Sebastian is just THAT good.
Scholars aren’t sure when it was written, so they list there composition date as when it was first published, which was during the Bach Revival Era in 1833, when it was performed by Felix Mendelssohn.
I've tried To find number 4 for 3 years thank you so much
Let’s be honest 99% of classical songs that are recognizable is because of looney tunes. What a great and underrated show it was. Most of the time not even needing words. But a lot of these songs got definition because of the situations and way they were used in looney tunes. We absorbed it way before we were even 5. “ merry melodies” haha
Also Jerry and Tom and the three little pigs( i litterally translate , i don't remember its English name, in the Italian version is called I tre porcellini)
And little Einstein.
@@KhanhNguyen-mh5ec this one. it gets me
Lisa Camaron Thanks Buddy
Wtf 99%? Lol not that many people know Looney tunes
"It is because of this [going deaf] that I have seriously considered taking my own life, but each time I decided on the end, the need for my art returns, and this is the only thing that keeps me alive."
--Ludwig van Beethoven
Glad to see several of his compositions made the list. What strikes me about Beethoven is not just the beauty of his music, but how it literally was a lifesaver for him. Even when completely deaf, he still composed so beautifully. Just goes to show that the human spirit isn't contained by physical senses and that, when blessed with an artistic talent, expressing oneself with it becomes not just a career choice, but an actual necessity to living. Today's "artists" who are in it just for their 15 minutes of fame and the cash that comes with them could learn a thing or two from Beethoven's perseverance.
No, they shouldn't exist in the first place. Better for them to come and go.
True. The ones just in it for the fame need to just go away, but even the rare artist today who has genuine talent in this era often seems to get caught up in the glitz and glamor of fame. It's very rare modern artists stick to their original goals. Everyone compromises or "sells out" eventually, with very few exceptions.
Exactly. Hollywood uses them to make money. The ones that sell their soul to Satan become famous. So the movie producers and record labels makes eh off of them. And they become glamorized by people like they're Gods. Then when the media shuns them the media makes money off of them like News and TMZ and all that shit. And worst of all, since they were so glamorized, it puts the idea in people head that even the best people in the world fail and that there is no good. It's diabolical. But I think if people knew more what was going on, then they would know these "celebrities" are just people that fucked up in life.
Agreed. That's why I as an artist know chasing fame is a bad idea. Genuinely creative people should just do what they do because they love it, and if fame happens to come along with it, great. Take advantage of good opportunities, of course, but don't follow one just because it has the allure of fame attached to it.
Bach's toccata and fugue in D minor is missing...
is in the honorable mentions
This is an excellent list and so are all the lists offered by knowledgeable folks below. I would add "Fanfare for the Common Man" and "Appalachian Spring" by Aaron Copland.
It's funny, I'm not into music at all and yet I recognise every single one of these. That surely says something about their overall influence.
my homie Grieg better be on this list
well it was at least an honourable mention
Kriss he is not from the classical era!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kriss Norwegian melody for the win
Parchelbels Canon in D Dur belongs to the top 10 list, as the chord sequence was used so many times in popular music.
Chellist enters the room
So you have chosen death
Yep.
Wonderful choices
10:49 that middle finger, omg i really couldn't control HAHAHHAHAHAHA. sorry dudes
That's a fun way to flip someone off though.
DONGYI WANG lmao...
DONGYI WANG I lost myself at that part hahahaha
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DONGYI WANG HAHAHAHAHAHHA THANKS!!! I JUST FOUND OUT TOO
I love Ludwig van Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata
Very surprised Symphony #9 wasn't ranked first.
Thank you so much u make day great I was searching the one tune which I heard before 10 when I was kid. but in my mind it was there and completed it ty so much for this👍👍
Aaaaaahhhh! I LOVE THIS LIST! This is why I became a composer! Good job WatchMojo, I've been watching your vids daily for a while now, and I must say THIS LIST has confirmed to me the diversity of your research team. I wholeheartedly agree with your #1 pick as well! Great work!
The Title Should Be Most Famous Piece That People Today Only Know
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Where is Blue Danube?!
Moonlight Sonata? anyone? anyone?
Yeah I was expecting that here too.
Yeah Mojo are Beethoven fanboys...unsub
was expecting 1812 overture aswell x.x....
It's beautiful and popular among most people with a musical background, but I don't think anyone I know (aside from my choir/orchestra friends) know it...
kurayamidesu actually its been used in several works in movies and tv alike some younger audiences might recognize it from the Detective Conan anime series
my grandad would always hum Carmina Burana, slightly out of key when he was in the bathroom so that my grandma who is partially deaf would hear and know it was occupied. he hummed that piece so often with such gusto that when he passed away 3 years ago, we chose that song to play in the Crematorium as we said our good byes the immediate family (Grandma, 2 uncles, 1 aunt, me, my mum and half a dozen cousins) couldn't help but giggle at the fond and happy memories the music brought back to us and also as we realised it's a little bit too "Fire and Brimstone" for a cremation. all the family friends looked at us like we had gone mad but it is definitely the piece he would have wanted us to play... either that or the Danse Macabre.
I love this video, I watched this video last 2015 and I'm here again with my new account. :)