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If you want to listen to their works, these are our top picks for starting out.

COUNTRY	COMPOSER	START YOUR LISTENING JOURNEY WITH...	LINK
Australia	Will you be the next best thing?	???
Austria	Gustav Mahler	2nd Symphony: Resurrection	https://youtu.be/RONBzkthUjM?si=DJqyl52dGoW6KjrW
	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Requiem: Lacrimosa	https://youtu.be/MafAZeag1_0?si=011wLih9n22O08bC
	Franz Schubert	Erlkönig	https://youtu.be/JS91p-vmSf0?si=tQyWhrci0XNSLKhh
	Johann Strauss I	Radetzky March	https://youtu.be/xToFOzD0M8E?si=GiTUWnuoacVMU8jK
	Johann Strauss II	The Blue Danube	https://youtu.be/IDaJ7rFg66A?si=H0eSDsC_AcsWFAcA
	Johan Strauss III	Dem Muthigen Gehört Die Welt Walzer	https://youtu.be/RNa1OldCu4w?si=x235pggg9SbF2G2X
Czechia	Antonín Dvořák	Symphony No. 9: From the New World	https://youtu.be/P_1N6_O254g?si=s1c91GoNMyl370-B
Finland	Jean Sibelius	Symphony No. 5: Movement 3	https://youtu.be/nkzrSZKA4cM?si=V2j9jS8bBFw70b6v
France	Claude Debussy	Clair de Lune	https://youtu.be/WNcsUNKlAKw?si=JFTW3DHrxZNruhas
	Gabriel Fauré	Masques et Bergamasques	https://youtu.be/T5TOjHB5FDY?si=J1ynirj4wZ9YPXQ9
	Maurice Ravel	Boléro	https://youtu.be/LwLABSm0yYc?si=y94-eyzk8SyG-PN6
	Camille Saint-Saëns	La Danse Macabre	https://youtu.be/ZDWMoJz8OYU?si=2TOayhwwB-x9k0gf
Germany	Johann Sebastian Bach	Toccata and Fugue	https://youtu.be/FXPZGHk0PLA?si=SSsnD2t8z_DhtMM1
	Ludwig van Beethoven	Moonlight Sonata	https://youtu.be/4591dCHe_sE?si=qitL3ATXrp4tqVU3
	Hildegard von Bingen	De Spiritu Sancto	https://youtu.be/HYzPR0nwcmY?si=kpZYZZwwyxNMCA1A
	Johannes Brahms	Hungarian Dance No. 5	https://youtu.be/Nzo3atXtm54?si=8jOQQ_LQNQAQaCYW
	Fanny Mendelssohn	Notturno	https://youtu.be/rQK9rr_p8SA?si=ZIligjQBDLSo5O3j
	Felix Mendelssohn	Overture: The Hebrides	https://youtu.be/MdQyN7MYSN8?si=CTtqKn1VL0PgKRKx
	Clara Schumann	Piano Trio	https://youtu.be/6SNY2psmNi0?si=s8S3MOFKk6zhzA6l
	Robert Schumann	Piano Quartet	https://youtu.be/u4EDwHCR-PI?si=_LjfbFtdJQZkjN0N
	Richard Strauss	Till Eulenspiegel Op. 28	https://youtu.be/XxO6Rz4ADKI?si=FApcDB9N3zID1J4k
	Richard Wagner	The Valkyrie: Ride of the Valkyries	https://youtu.be/hQM97_iNXhk?si=0HeE_wrVbaUbZMZa
Germany / UK	George Frideric Handel	Messiah: Hallelujah	https://youtu.be/weFJHtcxJt0?si=_kpQuVwKYnYsIE-m
Italy	Claudio Monteverdi	L'Orfeo: Toccata	https://youtu.be/mjpFi9bn1do?si=glovMfaGoMTK2WRb
	Antonio Vivaldi	The Four Seasons: Summer	https://youtu.be/muowVV_ITKc?si=mnmpXGoXRE_ag2vy
Norway	Edvard Grieg	In the Hall of the Mountain King	https://youtu.be/OqvHWUZZdP0?si=daPx7icaGWY4EHJ_
Poland	Frédéric Chopin	Nocturne	https://youtu.be/p29JUpsOSTE?si=spZTrf_3OcX29gs4
Russia	Sergei Prokofiev	Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights	https://youtu.be/SyDo3h1Tu7c?si=wnlF-nz4uRAcjIcC
	Sergei Rachmaninoff	Piano Concerto No. 2	https://youtu.be/BxX1obB9GKk?si=z-yzBHGltWdyEKL5
	Dmitri Shostakovich	Waltz No. 2	https://youtu.be/-2-Zqog-p5c?si=XSxuWQnHIJS90YHj
	Igor Stravinsky	Rite of Spring: Sacrificial Dance	https://youtu.be/KzVDpdKgLS4?si=PP2J9x5AjUVike65
	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	1812 Overture	https://youtu.be/1KzF1KgaREo?si=D8W8T6kWsIezqDv-
UK	Samuel Coleridge-Taylor	Nonet in F minor, Op. 2	https://youtu.be/T7qf0Z6kzNE?si=HHZZVFdUF2U2vEp5
	Edward Elgar	Cello Concerto	https://youtu.be/lrJLPtXBzIs?si=uGrqhBGx2n35pKHx
	Gustav Holst	The Planets: Jupiter	https://youtu.be/BUM_zT3YKHs?si=VqKiky5U3sk84lLR
USA	Samuel Barber	Adagio for Strings, Op. 11	https://youtu.be/WAoLJ8GbA4Y?si=UFKU56RPOI-q5oHq
	Aaron Copland	Appalachian Spring	https://youtu.be/TXV8yO1FucA?si=_uspTxCt_lHaaMdI
	George Gershwin	Rhapsody in Blue	https://youtu.be/VAuTouBhN5k?si=A6JENgYbOSp6qkwE
	Glen Miller	In the Mood	https://youtu.be/aKb-qfwbZ2M?si=l_PyCT8zD54o8l6H