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| The Classical Era | |
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| Symphony in B Major, first movement (ca. 1740) Georg Matthias Monn (17171750) | |
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| Sonata in D Major, K. 492 (ca. 1750?) Domenico Scarlatti (16851757) | |
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| Symphony in D Major, Op. 3, No. 2, first movement (ca. 17521755) Johann Stamitz (17171757) | |
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| Sonata in D Major, Op. 5, No. 2, first movement (1766) Johann Christian Bach (17351782) | |
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| Fantasia in C minor (finale of Keyboard Sonata, Wq. 63/6) (1753) Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (17141788) | |
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| Piano Sonata in C minor, Hob. XVI:20, first movement (1771) Joseph Haydn (17321809) | |
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| String Quartet in C Major, Op. 33, No. 3 (1781) Haydn | |
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| Symphony No. 103 in Eb Major, first movement (1795) Haydn | |
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| Piano Concerto in D Major, K. 107, No. 1, first movement (1772) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (17561791) | |
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| Piano Concerto in Eb Major, K. 271, first movement (1777) Mozart | |
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| La serva padrona: Aspettare e non venire (1733) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (17101736) | |
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| Alceste, Act II, Scene 3 (excerpt) (1767; revised 1776) Christoph Willibald Gluck (17141787) | |
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| Don Giovanni, K. 527, Act I, Scenes 15 (1787) Mozart 76 | |
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| Requiem, K. 626, Introit (1791) Mozart | |
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| Kennst du das Land (1796) Carl Friedrich Zelter (17581832) | |
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| Wake Evry Breath: A Canon of 6 in One with a Ground (1770) William Billings (17461800) | |
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| The 19th Century106 | |
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| Symphony No. 3 in Eb Major (Eroica), Op. 55 (1803) Ludwig van Beethoven (17701827) | |
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| First Movement | |
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| Second Movement (Marcia funebre) | |
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| Symphonie fantastique, fifth movement (finale) (1830) Hector Berlioz (18031869) | |
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| Overture to A Midsummer Nights Dream (1826) Felix Mendelssohn (18091847) | |
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| Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58, second movement (1806) Beethoven | |
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| Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 53 (Waldstein), first movement (1804) Beethoven | |
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| String Quartet in Bb Major, Op. 130 (excerpts) (1826) Beethoven | |
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| Three Lieder, Franz Schubert (17971828) | |
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| Erlk"nig, D. 328 (1815) | |
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| Prometheus, D. 674 (1819) | |
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| Wanderers Nachtlied, D. 768 (1824) | |
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| Three Settings of Goethes Kennst du das Land | |
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| Kennst du das Land (Mignons Gesang), D. 321 (1815) Schubert | |
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| Kennst du das Land (Mignon) (1849) Robert Schumann (18101856) | |
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| Mignon (1888) Hugo Wolf (18601903) | |
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| Liebst du um Sch"nheit (1841) Clara Wieck Schumann (18191896) | |
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| Beautiful Dreamer (1862) Stephen Foster (18261864) | |
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| V chetyrjokh stenakh (In Four Walls), from the song cycle Bez solnca (Sunless) (1874) Modeste Mussorgsky (18391881) | |
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| Lieder ohne Worte: Op. 30, No. 3 (1837) Mendelssohn | |
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| Mazurka in A minor, Op. 17, No. 4 (1833) Frederic Chopin (18101849) | |
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| Preludes, Op. 28, Nos. 14 (1839) Chopin | |
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| Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23 (1835) Chopin | |
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| Galop de bal (ca. 1840) Franz Liszt (18111886) | |
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| Carnaval, Op. 9 (excerpts) (1835) Robert Schumann | |
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| Nuages gris (1881) Liszt | |
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| Caprices, Op. 1, No. 24, in A minor (ca. 1810) Niccoli Paganini (17821840) | |
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| Etudes dexecution transcendante, No. 1 in C Major (1838; revised 1851) Liszt (18111886) | |
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| The Banjo (1855) Louis Moreau Gottschalk (18291869) | |
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| Il Barbiere di Siviglia (1816) Gioacchino Rossini (17921868) | |
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| Act 1, Scene 2, cavatina (Figaro): Largo al factotum | |
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| Act 1, Scene 5, cavatina (Rosina): Una voce poco fa | |
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| Rigoletto (1851) Giuseppe Verdi (18131901) | |
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| Act I (excerpts) | |
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| Act III, | |