For what it's worth, here's a list of 101 Essential Pieces of the 20th
Century:
Adams, John: Harmonielehre
Adams, John: Nayve and Sentimental Music
Barber, Samuel: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Barber, Samuel: Piano Sonata
Bartok, Bela: Concerto for Orchestra
Bartok, Bela: Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta
Bartok, Bela: String Quartet 3
Berg, Alban: Violin Concerto
Berg, Alban: Wozzeck
Berio, Luciano: Sinfonia
Bernstein, Leonard: Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Britten, Benjamin: Peter Grimes
Britten, Benjamin: War Requiem
Busoni, Ferrucio: Piano Concerto
Cage, John: 4'33"
Cage, John: Sonatas and Interludes
Carter, Elliott: String Quartet 1
Carter, Elliott: Symphonia: Sum Fluxae Pretium Spei
Copland, Aaron: Billy the Kid
Copland, Aaron: Piano Variations
Copland, Aaron: Appalachian Spring
Corigliano, John: Violin Sonata
Debussy, Claude: La Mer
Debussy, Claude: Preludes
Debussy, Claude: Sonata for flute, viola, and harp
Elgar, Edward: Cello Concerto
de Falla, Manuel: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Feldman, Morton: Rothko Chapel
Gershwin, George: Porgy and Bess
Gershwin, George: Rhapsody in Blue
Gershwin, George: Songs
Glass, Philip: Einstein on the Beach
Granados, Ernesto: Goyescas
Gubaidulina, Sofia: Offertorium
Henze, Hans Werner: The Bassarids
Hindemith, Paul: Mathis der Maler
Hindemith, Paul: Symphonic Metamophoses on a Theme by Weber
Holst, Gustav: Planets
Honneger, Arthur: Pacific 231
Ives, Charles: Concord Sonata
Ives, Charles: Symphony 4
Ives, Charles: The Unanswered Question
Janacek, Leos: Makropulos Case
Janacek, Leos: Quartet 2
Janacek, Leos: Sinfonietta
Korngold, Erich von: Tote Stadt
Korngold, Erich von: Violin Concerto
Ligeti, Gyorgy: Etudes
Ligeti, Gyorgy: Le Grand Macabre
Lutoslawski, Witold: Concerto for Orchestra
Mahler, Gustav: Das Lied von Der Erde
Mahler, Gustav: Symphony 6
Mahler, Gustav: Symphony 9
Martin, Frank: Concerto for Seven Wind Instruments
Martinu, Bohuslav: Symphony 2
Maw, Nicholas: Odyssey
Messiaen, Olivier: Quatour pour la fin du temps
Messiaen, Olivier: Turangalilia-Symphonie
Milhaud, Darius: La Creation du Monde
Nielsen, Carl: Symphony 4
Penderecki, Krzysztof: St. Luke Passion
Penderecki, Krzysztof: Threnody
Poulenc, Francois: Concerto for Two Pianos
Poulenc, Francois: Dialogues du Carmelites
Prokofiev, Sergei: Lt. Kiji
Prokofiev, Sergei: Sonata 7
Prokofiev, Sergei: Symphony 5
Prokofiev, Sergei: Violin Concerto 2
Puccini, Giacomo: Madama Butterfly
Puccini, Giacomo: Turandot
Rachmaninoff, Sergei: Etudes Tableaux
Rachmaninoff, Sergei: Piano Concerto 2
Rachmaninoff, Sergei: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Ravel, Maurice: Bolero
Ravel, Maurice: Piano Concerto in G
Reich, Steve: Come Out
Respighi, Ottorino: Pines of Rome
Riley, Terry: In C
Rodrigo, Joaquin: Concierto de Aranjuez
Satie, Erik: Parade
Schnittke, Alfred: Concerto Grosso 1
Schoenberg, Arnold: Pierrot Lunaire
Scriabin, Alexander: Poeme d'Ecstases
Scriabin, Alexander: Sonata 9
Shostakovich, Dmitri: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
Shostakovich, Dmitri: String Quartet 8
Shostakovich, Dmitri: Symphony 5
Sibelius, Jean: Symphony 4
Sibelius, Jean: Violin Concerto
Strauss, Richard: Ariadne auf Naxos
Strauss, Richard: Four Last Songs
Stravinsky, Igor: Le Sacre du Printemps
Stravinsky, Igor: Symphonies of Wind Instruments
Stravinsky, Igor: Symphony of Psalms
Szymanowski, Karol: King Roger
Tippett, Michael: King Priam
Varese, Edgard: Ionisation
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: Fantasia on a Theme of Thomas Tallis
Vaughan Williams, Ralph: London Symphony
Walton, William: Viola Concerto
Weill, Kurt: Seven Deadly Sins
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