top ten must heard or known pieces?

I don't know about everyone else, but my fav is called passion.

The very best is August's Rhapsody from the movie, August Rush. I LOVE THAT SONG!!!!!!!!!!!

Lots of people know about Beethoven & Mozart

Theres three pieces of music that I think of as popular classical and they are:

1 Greensleeves
2 Elizabethen Serinade
3 Orphius in the underworld.

I would say In the Hall of the Mounyain King. It can be heard in so many different movies and some TV shows. I think if you heard it, you would know it.

1) Samuel Barber - Adagio For Strings
2) Beethoven - Für Elise
3) Edward Grieg - Morning
4) Julius Fucik - Entry of the Gladiators
5) Tchaikovsky - Dance Of The Sugar Plum Fairy
6) Edward Grieg -In the Hall of the Mountain King
7) Bach - Toccata and Fugue
8) Mozart - Marcia Turca
9) Beethoven - 5th Symphony first movement
10) Verdi - La Donna E Mobile

These are just a couple of classical songs that are well known.

10.Overture to William Tell
Gioachino Rossini
9.Minuet in G Major
Christian Petzold
8.Dawn from Thus Spake Zarathustra
Richard Strauss
7.Ode to Joy
Ludwig van Beethoven
6.Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
Wolfgang A. Mozart
5.Toccata in d minor
Johann S. Bach
4.Hallelujah Chorus
George F.
3.HandelHere Comes the Bride
Richard Wagner
2.Symphony #5
Ludwig van Beethoven
1.the entertainer scott joplin
0.Pachelbel's Canon

canon, traumerei, fur elise, prelude in E Minor, minuet from string qaurtet, etude in E Opus 10 No. 3, petit chein, turkish march, hungarian rhapsody No. 2, etude in G flat Opus 10 No. 5

beethoven fur elise, moonlight sonata
franz peter schubert, serenade
tchaikovsky's swan lake and nutcracker ballet pieces
vivaldi four seasons
johann sebastian bach- Cello Suite No.1 in G major i-Prelude
Johann Pachelbel Canon in D Major
mozart a little night music

well these are my personal favorites but theres a whole lot more...... i can never fault classical music.