Classical Countdown 2010

Rank	Composer	Composition
1	Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
2	Antonin Dvorak	SymphonyNo. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95 'From the New World'
3	Johann Sebastian Bach	Brandenburg Concerti
4	Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op. 92
5	Gustav Mahler	Symphony No. 2 in C Minor 'Resurrection'
6	Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67
7	Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 3 in E flat Major, Op. 55 'Eroica'
8	Ludwig van Beethoven	Concerto for Piano No. 5 in E flat Major, Op. 73 'Emperor'
9	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Requiem in D Minor, K. 626
10	Sergei Rachmaninoff	Concerto for Piano No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 18
11	Ludwig van Beethoven	Concerto for Violin in D Major, Op. 61
12	George Frederic Handel	Messiah
13	Ludwig van Beethoven	Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68 'Pastoral'
14	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 'Jupiter'
15	Samuel Barber	Adagio for Strings
16	Johannes Brahms	Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
17	Gustav Mahler	Symphony No. 1 in D Major 'Titan'
18	George Gershwin	Rhapsody in Blue
19	Giuseppe Verdi	Messa da Requiem
20	Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Concerto for Violin in D Major, Op. 35
21	Ralph Vaughan Williams	Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
22	Jean Sibelius	Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op. 43
23	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550
24	Gustav Mahler	Symphony No. 5 in C Sharp minor
25	Johann Sebastian Bach	Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
26	Johann Sebastian Bach	Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring
27	Bedrich Smetana	The Moldau
28	Camille Saint-Saens	Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78 'Organ'
29	Sergei Rachmaninoff	Concerto for Piano No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30
30	Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathetique'
31	Johann Pachelbel	Canon and Gigue in D Major
32	Sergei Rachmaninoff	Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
33	Giacomo Puccini	Madame Butterfly
34	Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Scheherazade, Op. 35
35	Richard Wagner	Gotterdammerung: Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey
36	Johannes Brahms	Symphony No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 98
37	Igor Stravinsky	The Rite of Spring
38	Frederic Chopin	Polonaise in A flat, 'Heroic'
39	Johannes Brahms	Concerto for Piano No. 2 in B flat Major, Op. 83
40	Johann Sebastian Bach	Mass in B minor, BWV 232
41	Richard Strauss	Der Rosenkavalier: Suite (1945)
42	Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64
43	Antonin Dvorak	Symphony No. 8
44	Hector Berlioz	Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14
45	Franz Schubert	Symphony No. 8 in B minor 'Unfinished'
46	Claude Debussy	Suite Bergamasque: Clair de Lune
47	Edward Elgar	Concerto for Cello in E minor, Op. 85
48	Sergei Rachmaninoff	Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
49	Aaron Copland	Appalachian Spring
50	Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Romeo and Juliet
Rank	Composer	Composition

Throughout the month of December, we asked listeners to vote for 50 favorite pieces of classical music. Hundreds of you took our survey and many of you wrote in with suggestions of your own. Here are the final results of the 2010 Classical Countdown.
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