Bill Pirkle wrote:

>If you had to select 10 compositions to introduce someone to classical
>music which ones would you choose?

I'd want to make selections which would be relatively wide-ranging in time
periods and styles, something along the lines of the below:

Machaut - Messe de Nostre Dame.
Dowland - Lachrimae (Seaven Teares).
Bach    - Well-Tempered Clavier.
Handel  - Messiah.
Mozart  - Clarinet Quintet.
Beethoven - Symphony No. 9.
Verdi   - La Traviata.
Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 3.
Stravinsky - Rites of Spring.
Piazzola - Las cuatro estanciones portenas.

Of course, ten isn't close to the number needed to cover all bases.

Don Satz
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