User:Willi Gers07/Top 100 Lists

Even though I don't always agree with them, I like Top 100 lists. Sometimes I agree with a particular item being in the list 100%. Sometimes I agree with it but think it should be higher, or perhaps lower. If you want to nominate a piece for inclusion in a list I've created, please nominate it here: User talk:Willi Gers07/Top 100 Lists, not here.

The WCPE Top 100

This is the list compiled from votes by WCPE's listeners as of December 2008. I've made changes for spelling and to improve Wikipedia linking, but the ranking numbers are unchanged. To vote on a future version of this list, go to the WCPE website.

1. Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
2. Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
3. Antonín Dvořák: Symphony No. 9
4. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3
5. Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
6. Johann Pachelbel: Canon in D
7. Beethoven: Symphony No. 6
8. Johann Sebastian Bach: The Brandenburg Concerti
9. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 41
10. Modest Mussorgsky, arr. Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition
11. George Frideric Handel: Messiah
12. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
13. Sergei Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2
14. Beethoven: Symphony No. 7
15. Handel: Water Music
16. Mozart: Requiem
17. Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
18. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
19. Bedřich Smetana: The Moldau
20. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21
21. Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture
22. Gustav Holst: The Planets
23. Franz Schubert: The Trout Quintet
24. Camille Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3
25. Aaron Copland: Appalachian Spring
26. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
27. Edvard Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor
28. Mozart: Symphony No. 40
29. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
30. Schubert: Symphony No. 8
31. Hector Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique
32. Beethoven: Violin Concerto
33. Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
34. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
35. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14
36. Samuel Barber: Adagio for Strings
37. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 (The Shine Concerto)
38. Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
39. Johannes Brahms: Violin Concerto
40. Schubert: Symphony No. 9
41. Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
42. Jules Massenet: Meditation from "Thaïs"
43. Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
44. Dvořák: Cello Concerto
45. Brahms: Symphony No. 1
46. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
47. George Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue
48. Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4
49. Jean Sibelius: Finlandia
50. Georges Bizet: Carmen Suites
51. Sergei Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf
52. Bach: Mass in B minor
53. Joseph Haydn: Trumpet Concerto
54. Maurice Ravel: Bolero
55. Johann Strauss, Jr.: The Beautiful Blue Danube
56. Brahms: Symphony No. 2
57. Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 1
58. Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
59. Handel: Largo from "Xerxes"
60. Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream
61. Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals
62. Georg Phillip Telemann: Tafelmusik
63. Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
64. Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
65. Bach: Anna Magdalena Bach Book Excerpts
66. Gioacchino Rossini: Overture to "William Tell"
67. Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien
68. Amilcare Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours
69. Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
70. Dvořák: Symphony No. 8
71. Brahms: Symphony No. 3
72. Claude Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
73. Haydn: Symphony No. 94
74. Richard Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
75. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6
76. Max Bruch: Scottish Fantasy
77. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
78. Edward Elgar: Enigma Variations
79. Franz Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
80. Beethoven: Triple Concerto
81. Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
82. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites
83. Brahms: A German Requiem
84. Alexander Borodin: Polovtsian Dances
85. Bach: Cantata 140 (Sleepers, Awake)
86. Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem
87. Mozart: Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro"
88. Rossini: Overture to "The Barber of Seville"
89. Bach: Sheep May Safely Graze
90. Ottorino Respighi: The Pines and Fountains of Rome
91. Berlioz: Harold in Italy
92. Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain
93. Wagner: Tannhauser: Overture and Venusburg
94. Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio in G minor for Strings and Organ
95. Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3
96. Liszt: Les Preludes
97. Wagner: The Ring Cycle
98. Paul Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice
99. Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
100. Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23

My list of the American Top 100

The criterion for consideration to be in this list, besides my personal taste, will be that the composer was born in America or became an American citizen. To nominate a piece for this list, please leave a message on the talk page.

I've decided to start it off with my Top 10. But these could shift as I fill in spots 11 to 100.

1. Roy Harris: Symphony No. 3
2. Aaron Copland: Rodeo
3. Leonard Bernstein: Candide
4. John Philip Sousa: "The Stars and Stripes Forever"
5. Copland: "Fanfare for the Common Man"
6. Sousa: "Semper Fidelis"
7. Tobias Picker: "Old and Lost Rivers"
8. John Adams: "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"
9. Copland: Old American Songs
10. John Williams: Incidental music for The Empire Strikes Back
11. Michael Torke: "Green"
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My list of the 20th Century Top 100

The criterion for consideration to be in this list, besides my personal taste, will be that the piece was written between January 1, 1901 and December 31, 2000. To nominate a piece for this list, please leave a message on the talk page.

1. Robert Simpson: Symphony No. 3
2. Joaquin Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
3. Roy Harris: Symphony No. 3
4. Aaron Copland: Rodeo
5. Edmund Rubbra: Symphony No. 6
6. Leonard Bernstein: Candide
7. Igor Stravinsky: Rite of Spring (OK, now I'm getting to the usual suspects).
8. Copland: "Fanfare for the Common Man"
9. Dmitri Shostakovich: Festive Overture
10. Tobias Picker: "Old and Lost Rivers"
11. John Adams: "Short Ride in a Fast Machine"
12. Copland: Old American Songs
13. Simpson: Symphony No. 4
14. John Williams: Incidental music for The Empire Strikes Back
15. Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
16. Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes
17. Michael Torke: "Green"
18. Henryk Górecki: Symphony No. 2
19. Górecki: Symphony No. 3
20. Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
21. Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
22. Mahler: Symphony No. 5
23. Simpson: Symphony No. 5
24. Mahler: Symphony No. 7
25. Mahler: Symphony No. 8
26. Mahler: Symphony No. 6
27. Mahler: Symphony No. 10
28. Mahler: Symphony No. 9
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Other lists

There are a few other lists I might put on this page after I finish compiling my own lists.