• This is the basic listening list for all clarinetists who would consider themselves to be serious students of the art of the classic orchestral repertoire.
• The scope of this project is 120 hours of careful listening.
• In 60 days time, with 2 hours per day, the project should be completed in the order presented.
• Search out the finest recordings by the greatest artists.

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

The only symphonies that include clarinet are from the London (or Salomon) Symphonies

• No.99 in E-flat Major (1793)
• No.100 in G Major "Military" (1794)
• No.101 in D Major (1794) "The Clock"
• No.103 in E-flat Major (1795) "The Drum Roll"
• No.104 in D Major (1795) "London"

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Wolfgang A. Mozart (1756-1791)

The only major orchestral works that include clarinet:

• No. 31 D major "Paris"
• No. 35 D Major "Haffner"
• No. 39 E-flat Major
• No. 40 G minor
• Requiem in D minor (Basset Horns)
• Marriage of Figaro
• Don Giovanni
• Die Zauberflöte

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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

• Symphonies No.1-9
• Missa Solemnis Op.123
• Fidelio
• Leonore Overture No.3

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Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

• Der Freischütz
• Invitation to the Dance

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Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

• Symphonies No.1-4 and 6-9 (No.5 has no clarinets)
• Incidental music from Rosamunde

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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847)

• Symphonies No.1, 3, 4 and 5 (No.2 has no clarinets)
• Incidental music to Midsummer Nights Dream Op.21
• Fingal's Cave Op.26
• Trumpet Overture Op.101

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Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

• Symphonie Fantastique

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Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

• Overture to Semiramide
• Barber of Seville

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Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

• Symphonies No.1-4

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Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

• Hungarian Rhapsodies No.1-3
• Les Preludes

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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

• Symphonies No.1-4
• Academic Festival Overture
• Tragic Overture
• Variations on a Theme by Haydn

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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

• Forest Murmers
• Die Meistersinger
• Lohengrin
• Tristan und Isolde
• Die Walküre
• Tannhäuser
• Parsifal
• Gotterdammerung
• Siefried Idyll

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Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

• Requiem
• Rigoletto
• La Traviata
• Otello
• Falstaff

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Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

• Symphonies No.1-9

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Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904)

• Symphonies No.1-9

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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

• Symphonies No.1-6
• Mozartiana
• Nutcracker Suite

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Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

• Symphonies No.1-10
• Das Lied von der Erde
• Kindertotenlieder

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Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)

• Moldau
• The Bartered Bride

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Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

• Carmen

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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

• Bolero
• Suites from Daphnis and Chloe
• Rhapsodie Espagnole

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Ottorino Resphigi (1879-1936)

• Pines of Rome

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Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943)

• Symphonies No. 1 and 2

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Nicholai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

• Capriccio Espagnole
• Le Coq d'or
• Scheherazade

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Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

• La Boheme
• Tosca
• Madama Butterfly

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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

• Afternoon of a Faun
• La Mer
• Nocturnes
• Pelleas et Melisande

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George Gershwin (1898-1937)

• Rhapsody in Blue

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Darius Milhaud (1892-1974)

• Creation of the World

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Ferdinand Herold (1891-1933)

• Zampa Overture

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Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)

• Polovetsian Dances

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Cesar Franck (1822-1890)

• Symphony in D minor

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Modest Moussorgski (1839-1881)

• Night on Bare Mountain
• Pictures at an Exhibition

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Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

• Don Juan
• Till Eulenspiegel
• Ein Heldenleben
• Tod und Verklarung
• Don Quixote
• Elektra
• Der Rosenkavalier

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Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

• Rite of Spring
• Firebird
• Petrouchska
• Symphony in C

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Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

• Concerto for Orchestra
• Miraculous Mandarin
• Rumanian Dances
• Bluebeard's Castle

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Paul Hindemith (1895-1963)

• Mathis der Mahler

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Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

• Symphonies No.1-7

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Carl Nielsen (1865-1931)

• Symphonies No.1-6

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Sergei Prokofieff (1891-1953)

• Love for Three Oranges
• Romeo and Juliet
• Lt. Kihze Suite
• 7 Symphonies including Classical Symphony

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