The Best Classical Music in the World for Intermediate Piano

BACH: Air on the G String; Badinerie, BWV 1067; Allegro, BWV 1048; Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring; Sheep May Safely Graze; Toccata and Fugue, BWV 565

BEETHOVEN: Theme from Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”); Theme from Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”); Theme from Symphony No. 5; Theme from Symphony No. 7; Theme from Symphony No. 9

BIZET: Habanera from Carmen

BOCCHERINI: Minuet from String Quintet, Op. 11, No. 5

BORODIN: Nocturne from String Quartet No. 2

BRAHMS: Hungarian Dance, WoO 1, No. 5; Lullaby, Op. 49, No. 4

CLARKE: Trumpet Voluntary

DVORÁK: Theme from Symphony No. 9 (“From the New World”)

ELGAR: Nimrod from Enigma Variations; Pomp and Circumstance

FAURÉ: Après un rêve, Op. 7, No. 1; Pavane, Op. 50

FRANCK: Panis angelicus

GLUCK: Dance of the Blessed Spirits from Orfeo ed Euridice

GOUNOD: Ave Maria adapted from Prelude in C Major, BWV 846 by JS Bach

GREIG: Anitra’s Dance from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1; Morning from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1; Norwegian Dance, Op. 35, No. 2

HANDEL: Air from Water Music, HWV 348; Allegro from Water Music, HWV 349; Allegro from Water Music, HWV 348; The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon; Bourrée from Flute Sonata, HWV 363b; Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah; Largo from Serses

HAYDN: Theme from String Quartet, Op. 3, No. 5; Theme from Symphony No. 94, Hob I:94 (“Surprise”)

LEHAR: Waltz from The Merry Widow

MASSENET: Meditation from Thaïs

MENDELSSOHN: Nocturne from A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Wedding March from A Midsummer Night’s Dream

MOZART: Ave Verum Corpus; Theme from Clarinet Concerto; Theme from Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Lacrimosa from Requiem; Theme from Piano Concerto No. 21; Theme from Symphony No. 40; Theme from Symphony No. 41

OFFENBACH: Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann; Can-Can from Orpheus in the Underworld

PACHELBEL: Canon in D

PARRY: Jerusalem

PUCCINI: Musetta’s Waltz from La bohème; Un bel dì vedremo from Madame Butterfly; Vissi d’arte from Tosca

RACHMANINOFF: Theme from Piano Concerto No. 2

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Flight of the Bumblebee; Song of India; The Young Prince and the Young Prince from Scheherazade

SAINT-SAËNS: Danse macabre; The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals

SCHUBERT: Ave Maria; Serenade

SOUSA: The Stars and Stripes Forever

J. STRAUSS I: Radetsky March

J. STRAUSS II: Emperor Waltz; On the Beautiful Blue Danube; Tales from the Vienna Woods; Voices of Spring

TCHAIKOVSKY: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker; Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker; Theme from Romeo and Juliet; Theme from Swan Lake; Theme from Symphony No.5, Op. 58

WAGNER: Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin; The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre

WALDTEUFEL: The Skaters Waltz