📚 Classical Music

The tradition with the capital C: composers, works, forms, and the listening habits grown around them.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject classical music in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Orchestration	Cecil Forsyth	1914	13
	Elijah	Handel + Haydn Society	1875	6
	The Rest Is Noise	Alex Ross	2007	6
	The Messiah	Handel + Haydn Society	1919	5
	The Passion According to St. Matthew	Handel + Haydn Society	1944	5
	Ma vie heureuse	Darius Milhaud	1973	4
	Samson and Delilah	Handel + Haydn Society	1920	4
	Hora Novissima	Handel + Haydn Society	1921	4
	Get into classical music	Chris Craker	1991	3
	155th Season	Handel + Haydn Society	1970	3
	Don Giovanni von Mozart	Theobald Epstein	1870	2
	The Elements of Orchestral Arrangement	William Lovelock	1968	2
	The Redemption	Handel + Haydn Society	1898	2
	Children's Crusade	Handel + Haydn Society	1938	2
	Beethoven	Ernest Walker	1905	1
	Konzert fur Klavier und Orchester no. 23 KV 488 ; Konzert fur Klavier und Orchester no. 24 KV 491	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	1960	1
	The Rubenstein collection	Robert Schumann	1987	1
	Music Minus One Piano	Felix Mendelssohn	1997	1
	Ludwig van Beethoven	Jennifer Viegas	2006	1
	Klasična glasba v filmu / Classical music in the movie	Mitja Reichenberg	2007	1
	Damaging Winds	Clifford Ian Kyer	2013	1
	Music Study with the Masters	Sonya Shafer	2015	1
	Music Study with the Masters	Sonya Shafer	2015	1
	Instrumentals	Cat Ellington	2021	1
	The Life of Music	Nicholas Kenyon	2021	1
	My Life In Music, 4th Edition, e-book 21 July 2023	D. J. Pentecost	2023	1
	"The Secret 18th-Century Jazz Club" and Other Challenging and Original Music for Piano(s)	David Petersen	2024	1
	21 great classics	Phillip Keveren	—	1
	Paradise Lost	Handel + Haydn Society	1904	1
	Stabat Mater; Gallia	Handel + Haydn Society	1920	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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