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I wonder if any works of Handel or Vivaldi be influential enough to include? I'm not sure, just wondering. I do feel Bach was the definitely the biggie there. Or perhaps one of Strauss' tone poems? (Don Quixote?)

But really, it seems very fine and complete just the way it is right now, both in variety and in hitting the influential works. You did an incredible job on it and I hope it really helped the people in the thread who were interested in classical music. smile

If you wanted to add either of those two, for Handel, you could grab something from The Messiah or from Water Music, perhaps. I hope the Messiah wouldn't seem too obvious, but it seems like the most influential (on works such as Mendelssohn's Elijah) of his works. For that same reason, I'm not sure if The Four Seasons would be ok for Vivaldi, for the possibility of it being too obvious? His style when writing violin concerti in general is the important thing, so maybe another violin concerto would be ok. The one that's used often when studying music history is a student concerto which most student violinists still learn, No. 6 in A minor from L'estro Armonico. A more musically interesting one, I think, is RV208 in D Major.

Just some suggestions in case you wanted to add either of those composers to the list! smile

Strauss' tone poems are great! smile If I may suggest one, Don Quixote is a great one to start with. It's humorous, witty, and just a lot of fun to listen to, especially with the score. It uses different instruments to represent the characters and their antics, and there's a section where the brass use flutter-tonguing to depict of field of sheep (which Don Quixote runs into, ensuing chaos). I hope you enjoy checking out the tone poems in general though, they're very interesting! biggrin