Classic 100 Ten Years On

Last updated December 19, 2023

During 2010 the Australian radio station ABC Classic FM held a Classic 100 Ten Years On countdown. The survey recreated the Classic 100 Original countdown held in 2001.

Countdown results

The results of countdown are as follows:^[1]

Rank	Composer	Work	Genre	Key	Opus	Completed	Rank in the original 100	Change in rank
100	Mozart	Symphony No. 40	Symphony	G minor	K. 550	1788	—
99	Schubert	Adagio for piano trio (Notturno)	Trio	E-flat major	D. 897	1821	17	-82
98	Strauss, R	Songs with Orchestra^*	Song			1899	—
97	Mozart	Così fan tutte	Opera		K. 588	1789	85	-12
96	Górecki	Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs)	Symphony		Op. 36	1976	—
95	Giazotto (attrib. Albinoni)	Adagio for strings and organ	Adagio	G minor	T. Mi 26	1958	94	-1
94	Chopin	Piano Concerto No. 1	Concerto	E minor	Op. 11	1830	71	-23
93	Mozart	Clarinet Quintet	Quintet	A major	K. 581	1789	84	-9
92	Handel	Zadok the Priest	Anthem	D major	HWV 258	1727	95	+3
91	Sibelius	Symphony No. 5	Symphony	E-flat major	Op. 82	1919	—
90	Brahms	Piano Concerto No. 2	Concerto	B-flat major	Op. 83	1881	—
89	Purcell	Dido and Aeneas	Opera		Z. 626	1688	92	+3
88	Mascagni	Cavalleria rusticana	Opera			1890	30	-58
87	Tallis	Spem in alium	Motet			1570	—
86	Smetana	My Country—Vltava	Symphonic poem	E minor	T. 111	1874	60	-26
85	Schubert	Symphony No. 9 (Great)	Symphony	C major	D. 944	1840	—
84	Khachaturian	Spartacus	Orchestral suite			1954	99	+15
83	Rachmaninoff	Symphony No. 2	Symphony	E minor	Op. 27	1907	—
82	Brahms	Violin Concerto in D	Concerto	D major	Op. 77	1878	—
81	Puccini	Madama Butterfly	Opera			1904	38	-43
80	Berlioz	Symphonie fantastique	Symphony		Op. 14	1830	—
79	Mendelssohn	Hebrides Overture	Overture	B minor	Op. 26	1830	—
78	Dvořák	Cello Concerto in B minor	Concerto	B minor	Op. 104	1895	—
77	Beethoven	Triple Concerto	Concerto	C major	Op. 56	1803	—
76	Mozart	Don Giovanni	Opera		K. 527	1787	—
75	Grieg	Peer Gynt	Suite		Op. 23	1875	98	+23
74	Bach, JS	Cello Suite No. 1	Suite	G major	BWV 1007	1723	20	-54
73	Tchaikovsky	The Nutcracker	Suite		Op. 71a	1891	—
72	Rimsky-Korsakov	Scheherazade	Symphonic suite		Op. 35	1888	—
71	Massenet	Méditation (from Thaïs )	Symphonic intermezzo			1894	39	-32
70	Mendelssohn	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Overture & incidental music		Op. 21, 61	1842	—
69	Mussorgsky (orch. Ravel)	Pictures at an Exhibition	Suite			1874	—
68	Tchaikovsky	Symphony No. 5	Symphony	E minor	Op. 64	1888	—
67	Mahler	Symphony No. 1 (Titan)	Symphony	D major		1888	—
66	Stravinsky	The Rite of Spring	Ballet			1913	97	+31
65	Schubert	String Quartet No. 14 (Death and the Maiden)	Quartet	D minor	D. 810	1824	—
64	Grieg	Piano Concerto in A minor	Concerto	A minor	Op. 16	1868	68	+4
63	Barber	Adagio for Strings	Orchestral	B-flat major	Op. 11a	1936	36	-27
62	Orff	Carmina Burana	Cantata			1937	83	+21
61	Satie	Gymnopédies	Unaccompanied piano			1888	82	+21
60	Mozart	Ave verum corpus	Motet	D major	K. 618	1791	57	-3
59	Tchaikovsky	Violin Concerto in D	Concerto	D major	Op. 35	1878	91	+32
58	Mahler	Symphony No. 5	Symphony	C-sharp minor		1902	43	-15
57	Sibelius	Finlandia	Symphonic poem		Op. 26	1900	90	+33
56	Ravel	Boléro	Orchestral dance	C major		1928	81	+25
55	Debussy	Claire de lune	Suite for piano			1905	93	+38
54	Sibelius	Violin Concerto in D minor	Concerto	D minor	Op. 47	1903	—
53	Bach, JS	Goldberg Variations	Theme and variations		BWV 988	1741	56	+3
52	Tchaikovsky	1812 Overture	Overture	E-flat major	Op. 49	1880	61	+9
51	Rachmaninoff	Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini	Concertante	A minor	Op. 43	1934	51	0
50	Pachelbel	Pachelbel's Canon	Canon and gigue	D major	PWC 38	1694	23	-27
49	Beethoven	Piano Concerto No. 4	Concerto	G major	Op. 58	1806	87	+38
48	Bach, JS	Cantata 147 (including Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring )	Cantata		BWV 147	1716	11	-37
47	Prokofiev	Romeo and Juliet	Ballet		Op. 64	1935	58	+11
46	Bach, JS	Mass in B minor	Mass	B minor	BWV 232	1749	29	-17
45	Bach, JS	Toccata and Fugue	Toccata and Fugue	D minor	BWV 565	1707	79	+34
44	Puccini	La bohème	Opera			1896	33	-11
43	Mahler	Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection)	Symphony	C minor		1894	62	+19
42	Schubert	String quintet	Quintet	C major	D. 956	1828	28	-14
41	Bizet	Carmen	Opera			1875	—
40	Tchaikovsky	Swan Lake	Ballet		Op. 20	1876	—
39	Sibelius	Symphony No. 2	Symphony	D major	Op. 43	1902	—
38	Bach, JS	Double Violin Concerto	Concerto	D minor	BWV 1043	1731	35	-3
37	Rachmaninoff	Piano Concerto No. 3	Concerto	D minor	Op. 30	1909	—
36	Gershwin	Rhapsody in Blue	Concerto	B-flat major		1924	73	+37
35	Allegri	Miserere mei, Deus	Setting (Psalm)			1630	9	-26
34	Mozart	Piano Concerto No. 21	Concerto	C major	K.467	1785	31	-3
33	Strauss, R	Four Last Songs	Song		TrV 296	1948	10	-23
32	Mendelssohn	Violin Concerto	Concerto	E minor	Op. 64	1844	89	+57
31	Beethoven	Symphony No. 3 (Eroica)	Symphony	E-flat major	Op. 55	1804	40	+9
30	Pärt	Spiegel im Spiegel		F major		1978	—
29	Tchaikovsky	Piano Concerto No. 1	Concerto	B-flat minor	Op. 23	1875	74	+45
28	Tchaikovsky	Symphony No. 6 (Pathétique)	Symphony	B minor	Op. 74	1893	—
27	Mozart	The Marriage of Figaro	Opera		K. 492	1786	67	+40
26	Fauré	Requiem Mass	Mass	D minor	Op. 48	1890	15	-11
25	Bizet	The Pearl Fishers	Opera			1863	7	-18
24	Elgar	Enigma Variations	Theme and variations		Op. 36	1899	24	0
23	Mozart	The Magic Flute	Opera		K. 620	1791	54	+31
22	Rodrigo	Concierto de Aranjuez	Concerto			1939	21	-1
21	Beethoven	Symphony No. 5	Symphony	C minor	Op. 67	1808	42	+21
20	Vaughan Williams	Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis	Fantasia			1910	25	+5
19	Holst	The Planets	Suite		Op. 32	1916	49	+30
18	Beethoven	Piano Sonata No. 14 (Moonlight)	Sonata	C-sharp minor	Op. 27 No. 2	1801	27	+9
17	Schubert	Piano Quintet (Trout)	Quintet	A major	D. 667	1819	18	+1
16	Beethoven	Symphony No. 7	Symphony	A major	Op. 92	1811	80	+64
15	Bach, JS	St Matthew Passion	Setting		BWV 244	1727	12	-3
14	Vaughan Williams	The Lark Ascending				1914	2	-12
13	Saint-Saëns	Symphony No. 3 (Organ Symphony)	Symphony	C minor	Op. 78	1886	45	+32
12	Vivaldi	The Four Seasons	Concerto		Op. 8	1723	16	+4
11	Bruch	Violin Concerto No. 1	Concerto	G minor	Op. 26	1866	14	+3
10	Elgar	Cello Concerto	Concerto	E minor	Op. 85	1919	19	+9
9	Beethoven	Violin Concerto	Concerto	D major	Op. 61	1806	5	-4
8	Mozart	Requiem Mass	Mass	D minor	K. 626	1791	32	+24
7	Rachmaninoff	Piano Concerto No. 2	Concerto	C minor	Op. 18	1901	13	+6
6	Dvořák	Symphony No. 9 (New World Symphony)	Symphony	E minor	Op. 95	1893	52	+46
5	Handel	Messiah	Oratorio		HWV 56	1741	8	+3
4	Mozart	Clarinet Concerto	Concerto	A major	K. 622	1791	1	-3
3	Beethoven	Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral Symphony)	Symphony	F major	Op. 68	1808	6	+3
2	Beethoven	Piano Concerto No. 5 (Emperor Concerto)	Concerto	E-flat major	Op. 73	1811	4	+2
1	Beethoven	Symphony No. 9 (Choral)	Symphony	D minor	Op. 125	1824	3	+2

^* The following six songs were broadcast as No. 98 in the countdown:

Cäcilie – Opus 27 No. 2 (1894).
Ruhe, meine Seele! – Opus 27 No. 1 (1894).
Morgen! – Opus 27 No. 4 (1894).
Meinem Kinde – Opus 37 No. 3 (1898).
Wiegenlied – Opus 41 No. 1 (1899).
Zueignung – Opus 10 No. 1 (1885).

Programming

For more information about the works broadcast (including performers and recording details), see ABC Classic FM's programming notes:

Day 1: Numbers 100 to 90
Day 2: Numbers 89 to 79
Day 3: Numbers 78 to 68
Day 4: Numbers 67 to 52
Day 5: Numbers 51 to 40
Day 6: Numbers 39 to 24
Day 7: Numbers 23 to 12
Day 8: Numbers 11 to 4
Day 9: Numbers 3 to 1

By Composer

The following 48 composers were featured in the countdown:

Composer	Nationality	Works^*	Works in original survey
Albinoni	Italian	1	1
Allegri	Italian	1	1
Bach, JS	German	7	13
Barber	American	1	1
Beethoven	German	10	11
Berlioz	French	1	0
Bizet	French	2	1
Brahms	German	2	0
Bruch	German	1	1
Chopin	Polish-French	1	1
Debussy	French	1	1
Dvořák	Czech	2	2
Elgar	English	2	4
Fauré	French	1	2
Gershwin	American	1	1
Giazotto	Italian	1	1
Górecki	Polish	1	0
Grieg	Norwegian	2	2
Handel	German-British	2	3
Holst	English	1	1
Khachaturian	Armenian	1	1
Mahler	Austrian	3	3
Mascagni	Italian	1	1
Massenet	French	1	1
Mendelssohn	German	3	1
Mozart	Austrian	10	11
Mussorgsky	Russian	1	0
Orff	German	1	1
Pachelbel	German	1	1
Pärt	Estonian	1	0
Prokofiev	Russian	1	1
Puccini	Italian	2	3
Purcell	English	1	1
Rachmaninoff	Russian	4	2
Ravel	French	2	1
Rimsky-Korsakov	Russian	1	0
Rodrigo	Spanish	1	1
Saint-Saëns	French	1	2
Satie	French	1	1
Schubert	Austrian	5	5
Sibelius	Finnish	4	1
Smetana	Czech	1	1
Strauss, R	German	2	1
Stravinsky	Russian	1	1
Tallis	English	1	0
Tchaikovsky	Russian	7	3
Vivaldi	Italian	1	1
Vaughan Williams	English	2	2

^* Note that the number of works above totals to two more than the number of works in the countdown due to:

Albinoni and Giazotto being entered separately for the same work.
Mussorgsky and Ravel being entered separately for the same work.

Original Classic 100 survey

The Original Classic 100 countdown was held in 2001. The following 28 works from the original did not appear in the 2010 countdown.

Rank	Composer	Work
22	Bach	Brandenburg Concertos
26	Mozart	Piano Concerto No. 23
34	Bach	Air on the G-String
37	Verdi	Nabucco
41	Schubert	To Music
44	Verdi	Requiem
46	Gluck	"Che farò senza Euridice" from Orpheus and Euridice
47	Wagner	Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
48	Mozart	Eine kleine Nachtmusik
50	Saint-Saëns	"The Swan" from The Carnival of the Animals
53	Handel	Xerxes
55	Dvořák	"Song to the Moon" from Rusalka
59	Elgar	Pomp and Circumstance
63	Bach	Cantata No. 78, Jesu, der du meine Seele
64	Litolff	Concerto symphonique No. 4 in D minor, Scherzo
65	Elgar	Sea Pictures
66	Caccini, G	Ave Maria
69	Beethoven	Piano Trio (Archduke)
70	Bach	Christmas Oratorio
72	Bach	Chaconne from Partita for Violin No. 2
75	Verdi	La traviata
76	Mahler	Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major
77	Schubert	Impromptu No. 3 in G flat
78	Puccini	"O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi
86	Beethoven	Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor (Pathétique)
88	Bach	The Well-Tempered Clavier
96	Mozart	Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor
100	Fauré	Cantique de Jean Racine

The following composers included in the 2001 countdown did not appear in the 2010 countdown:

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References

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