- ° Chantilly Codex
- Guillaume Dufay (c. 1397 – 1474), Franco-Flemish
- Josquin des Prez (c. 1450 – 1521), Franco-Flemish
- Philippe Verdelot (c. 1480 – 1532), French
- Constanzo Festa (c. 1485 – 1545), Italian
- Adrian Willært (1490 – 1562), Flemish
- Thomas Tallis (1505–85), English
- Diego Ortiz (1510–70), Spanish
- Vincenzo Bell'haver (c. 1540–87), Italian
- Cipriano de Rore (1550–65), Franco-Flemish
- Giovanni Palestrina (1525–94), Italian
- Thomas Morley (1557 – 1602), English
- John Dowland (1563 – 1626), English
- Carlo Gesualdo (1566 – 1613), Italian
- ° Madrigali libro quarto (1596)
- ° Madrigali libro quinto (1611)
- ° L'Orfeo (1607)
- ° L'incoronazione di Poppea (1642)
- ° Quatro libro dei madrigali
- ° Persée (1682)
- ° Alceste (1674)
- ° Armide (1686)
- ° Alcyone (1706)
- ° Concerto grosso Op. 6 No. 4
- ° Hexachordum Apollinis (1699)
- ° Canon in D Major (1680)
- ° King Arthur (1691)
- ° L'estro Armonico (1711)
- ° Le quattro stagioni (1725)
- ° Les Boréades
- ° Brandenburg concertos (1721) (BWV 1046–1051)
- ° Johannes Passion (1724) (BWV 224)
- ° St Matthew Passion (1727) (BWV 245)
- ° Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 (1731)
- ° Serse (1738)
- ° Messiah (1741)
- ° Le nozze di Figaro (1786)
- ° Don Giovanni (1787)
- ° Così fan tutte (1790)
- ° Die Zauberflöte (1791)
- ° Symphony No. 5 (1804–08)
- ° Piano Sonata No. 14 (Moonlight Sonata) (1801)
- ° Piano Sonata No. 8 (1798)
- ° Piano Sonata No. 23 (1803–06)
- ° Piano Sonata No. 9 (1824)
- ° Fidelio (1814)
- Niccolò Paganini (1782 – 1840), Italian
- Franz Schubert (1797 – 1828), Austrian
- Johann Strauss the Elder (1804–49), Austrian
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47), German
- Frédéric Chopin (1810–49), Polish
- Robert Schumann (1810–56), German
- Richard Wagner (1813–83), German
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901), Italian
- Jacques Offenbach (1819–80), German Jew (French subject)
- Johann Strauss the Younger (1825–99), Austrian
- Johannes Brahms (1833–97), German
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 – 1921), French
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–93), Russian
- Antonín Dvořák (1841 – 1904), Czech
- ° The American Suite (1895)
- ° Recuerdos de la Alhambra (1896)
(–) Modern / Impressionism
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- ° Gymnopédies (1888)
- ° Ogives (1889)
- ° Gnossiennes (1890)
- ° The Planets
- ° Daphnis et Chloé (1912)
- ° The Firebird (1910)
- ° The Rite of Spring (1913)
- ° The Rake's Progress (1948–51)
- ° Poème électronique (1958)
- ° 4'33" (1952)
- ° Klavierstücke (1952)
- ° Gesang der Jünglinge (1955–56)
- ° Mikrophonie (1964–65)
- ° Stimmung (1968)
- ° Mantra (1970)
- ° Helikopter-Streichquartett (1995)
- ° Symphony No. 3, Op. 36 (1976)
- ° Misere (1989)