It might be well worth your while to follow the links below to some pretty weird and wonderful videos. Nothing wrong with learning a little something about classical music while you learn about literature and history.
HORRIBLE!
Alessandro Scarlatti
(1660 – 1725)
“Griselda”
Jean-Philippe Rameau
(1683 – 1764)
“Castor and Pollux”
“Dardanus”
Transitional
Christoph Willibald Gluck
(1714 – 1787)
“Orpheus and Euridice”
Brilliant!
Josef Hayden
(1732 – 1809)
“Symphony no. 45”
“Piano Sonata no. 59”
“String Quartets”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(1756 – 1791)
“The Marriage of Figaro”
“Violin Sonata K.301”
Ludwig van Beethoven
(1770 – 1827)
“Kreutzer Sonata”
“Piano Sonata no. 8 – Pathetique”
“To the Distant Beloved”
“String Quartet no. 12”
Symphony no. 6 – Pastoral
Kubernesis 