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Top 25 Most Famous Classical Music of All Time

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Enjoy this video showing the 25 most famous classical music pieces ranked by views on a single YouTube video! 0:00 25th Place: George Frideric Handel - Hallelujah, 1741 0:32 24th Place: Johann Sebastian Bach - Cello Suite No. 1, I. Prélude, 1717-1723 1:05 23th Place: Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, 1847 1:42 22th Place: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Waltz of the Flowers, 1892 2:37 21th Place: Ludwig van Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata, III. Presto agitato, 1801 2:59 20th Place: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 21, II. Andante, 1785 3:47 19th Place: Antonio Vivaldi - The Four Seasons, IV. Winter, 1716-1725 4:38 18th Place: Franz Schubert - Schwanengesang, IV. Ständchen, 1828 5:41 17th Place: Camille Saint-Saëns - Danse macabre, 1874 6:19 16th Place: Maurice Ravel - Boléro, 1928 7:12 15th Place: Franz Schubert - Ave Maria, 1825 7:49 14th Place: Johann Sebastian Bach - Air, 1731 8:45 13th Place: Johannes Brahms - Lullaby, 1867-1868 9:40 12th Place: Ludwig van ...

Joseph Joachim: Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major

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Joseph Joachim (1831-1907) Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major (1875) I. Allegro non troppo 0:00 II. Andante 16:36 III. Allegro giocoso ed energico, ma non troppo vivace 25:18 Takako Nishizaki, violin Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra Meir Minsky, conductor Joseph Joachim (28 June 1831 – 15 August 1907) was a Hungarian violinist, conductor, composer and violin teacher. Joachim was born in Kittsee, near Bratislava and Eisenstadt, in what is today's Burgenland area of Austria. In 1833 his family moved to Pest, where he studied violin with Stanisław Serwaczyński, the concertmaster of the opera in Pest. In 1839, Joachim continued his studies at the Vienna Conservatory. He was taken by his cousin, Fanny Wittgenstein to live and study in Leipzig, where he became a protégé of Felix Mendelssohn. On 27 May 1844 Joachim, at age not quite 13, in his London Philharmonic debut with Mendelssohn conducting, played the solo part in Beethoven's violin concerto. This was a triumph i...