📯 ORCHESTRAL & INSTRUMENTAL WORKS

This section brings together Work Guides and Work Analyses devoted to symphonies, overtures, tone poems, orchestral suites, and other instrumental masterpieces that stand at the heart of the Western classical repertoire.

Work Guides provide the ideal introduction to major compositions and multi-part works. They explore the historical background, artistic vision, symbolism, and musical ideas that shape each work, offering listeners a broader perspective before moving on to detailed analysis.

Work Analyses focus on the music itself—its form, thematic development, harmonic language, orchestration, and historical context. Their purpose is not simply to explain how a composition is constructed, but to reveal how its musical ideas evolve and acquire expressive meaning.

The index below is organized by composer and serves as a gateway to the complete collection of orchestral and instrumental repertoire explored throughout MusiLLection.

B

• Bach Johann Sebastian (1685 - 1750)
• Berlioz Hector (1803 - 1869)

           - Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14

           - Rêverie et Caprice, Op. 8

           - Les Francs-juges, Overture (Op. 3, H 23)

• Beethoven Ludwig van (1770 - 1827)

           - Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67

           - Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 (“Pastoral”)

           - Egmont Overture, Op. 84

• Bizet Georges (1838 - 1875)

          - Carmen Suite No. 1

          - Carmen Suite No. 2

           - L’ Arlésienne (The Girl from Arles), Suite No. 1

           - L' Arlésienne (The Girl from Arles), Suite No. 2

• Brahms Johannes (1833 - 1897)
• Bruckner Αnton (1824 - 1896)

            - Symphony No. 2 in C minor

C  

• Chopin Frédéric François (1810-1849)

D

• Debussy Claude-Achille (1862 – 1918)

           - La Mer (Three Symphonic Sketches for Orchestra)

           - Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune

           - Syrinx

• Dvořák Antonín Leopold (1841 – 1904)  

           - Symphony No.8 in G major, Op. 88

           - Symphony No. 9 in E minor "From the New World", Op. 95

F

• Franck César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert (1822 – 1890) 

           - Pièce héroïque for Organ

G

• Gershwin George (1898 - 1937)

           - An American in Paris

• Grieg Edvard Hagerup (1843 - 1907) 

      

H

• Handel George Frideric (1685 – 1759)

          - Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348

          - Water Music, Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349

          - Music for the Royal Fireworks in D Major, HWV 351

• Haydn Franz Joseph (1732 – 1809)  

           - Symphony No. 94 in G major, “Surprise Symphony”  

L

• Liszt Franz or Ferenc  (1811 - 1886)

           - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 5

           - Hungarian Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, S.123

Μ

• Mendelssohn Jacob Ludwig Felix Bartholdy (1809 - 1847)

           - Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish"

           - Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 “Italian”

• Monteverdi Claudio Giovanni Antonio  (1567 - 1643)
• Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 - 1791)

          - Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550

          - Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G major), K. 525

                                 

P

• Paganini Niccolò (1782 – 1840)

          - Caprice No. 24 in A minor, Op. 1

R

• Ravel Joseph-Maurice (1875 - 1937)

          - Tzigane (Gypsy)

          - Boléro

          - Valses nobles et sentimentales

          - Pavane pour une infante défunte

• Rimsky-Korsakov Nikolai Andreyevich (1844 - 1908)

          - Scheherazade, Op. 35

          - Suite from the Opera Mlada

          - Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36

• Rossini Gioacchino Antonio (1792 - 1868)

S                    

• Saint-Saëns Charles-Camille (1835 – 1921)

          - Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, Op. 78 ("Organ Symphony")

          - Danse Macabre, Op. 40

          - Fantaisie No. 1 in E-flat major for Organ, Op. 7

          - The Carnival of the Animals (Le Carnaval des animaux) - Part 1

• Scarlatti Guiseppe Domenico (1685 - 1757)
• Schubert Franz Peter, (1797 – 1828)

         - Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, D.485

         - Symphony No. 8 in B minor, "Unfinished"

• Schumann Robert (1810 - 1856)

          - Symphony No. 1 in B-flat major, “Spring”, Op. 38

          - Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major “Rhenish”, Op. 97

• Smetana Bedřich (1824 - 1884)

           - Vltava (The Moldau)

• Strauss II Johann (1825 – 1899)

          - The Blue Danube Waltz, Op. 314

          - Pleasure Train (Vergnügungszug), op. 281

          - Tritsch-Tratsch-Polka, Op. 214

          - Voices of Spring (Frühlingsstimmen), Op. 410

          - Tales from the Vienna Woods (Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald), Op. 325

          - Wo die Zitronen blühen (Where the Lemon Trees Bloom), Op. 364

          - Emperor Waltz (Kaiser-Walzer), Op. 437

          - Persischer Marsch (Persian March), Op. 289

Τ

• Telemann Georg Philipp (1681 - 1767)

           - Don Quixote

• Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich  (1840 - 1893)

           - 1812 Overture, Op. 49

V

• Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco (1813 - 1901) 
• Vivaldi Antonio (1678 - 1743) 

           - Symphony in C Major     

W

• Wagner Wilhelm Richard, (1813 - 1883)

            - Siegfried Idyll

• Weber Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von (1786 - 1826) 

            - Symphony No. 1 in C Major, J. 50

How the Content Is Organized

Each entry leads either to a Work Guide, introducing the artistic and historical world of a major composition or a collection of related works, or to a Work Analysis, examining the musical structure, thematic development, harmony, orchestration, and expressive design of an individual work.

Most articles also include a Listening Guide, recommended recordings, embedded performances, suggestions for further reading, and references to related works, providing multiple paths for continued exploration.

The Archive Continues to Grow

This section is continuously expanded with new Work Guides and Work Analyses covering orchestral and instrumental repertoire from different periods and stylistic traditions. As the MusiLLection archive grows, it continues to serve as a curated gateway to some of the most enduring works in the classical repertoire.