15 pieces of classical music you instantly recognise but don't know their names: Starting with Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by JS Bach (1704)


2. Waltz No. 2 by Dmitry Shostakovich (1938)


3. Miserere mei Deus by Gregorio Allegri (1630s)


4. Piano Sonata No. 14, commonly known as the Moonlight Sonata, by Ludwig van Beethoven (1801)


5. L'amour est un oiseau rebelle, commonly known as the Habanera, from the opera Carmen by Georges Bizet (1875)


6. The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II (1866)


7. Morning Mood from Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg (1875)


8. The 3rd Movement of Piano Sonata No. 11 by Mozart, commonly known as the Rondo alla Turca (1784)


9. Hungarian Dance No. 5 by Johannes Brahms (1869) per Albert Parlow's orchestration in G Minor (1885)


10. Gymnopédie No. 1 by Erik Satie (1888)


11. Wedding March from A Midsummer Night's Dream by Felix Mendelssohn (1842)


12. Marche Slave by Tchaikovsky (1876)


13. Liebestraum No. 3 by Franz Liszt (1850)


14. Fantaisie-Impromptu by Frédéric Chopin (1834)


15. And back to Bach, with the Prelude to his Cello Suit No. 1 (1723)


What are some other pieces of classical music everybody recognises but whose names they don't necessarily know?


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