Classical Music for Children ... Is There Classical Music for Children? A Cool Website Regarding This Music Genre for Four ( ! ) "Target Groups"

Classical Music for children ... and in particular, Popular ( ! ) Classic for children: This is a "completely different website". Because I address four different age groups of music fans on only one website. First kids from six to twelve, then teens from 13 to 19, next adults, parents, grandparents and finally also teachers. And it's all about listening to music and not about making music. Very particularly conservative Classical Music fans now – please – already make a small detour via this link: The reading there is especially important for you.

To the 300 Popular Classical Music

hits to listen to, please click here.

"Classical Music for Children" is the latest website in our "Bach Mission", after Johann Sebastian Bach for Children, the webiste especially for kids and also Bach on Bach have existed as websites for many years. © Info.

Are you a particularly conservative fan of Classical Music? And Popular Classical Music is almost an imposition for you? Do you – for example – reject André Rieu and his way of presentation? Then please read about our philosophy on the way to Classical Music here. And why Mr. Rieu was and is so important for our project, you can find out here.

Classical Music for Children ... Here Is the "Most Pedagogical Offer in the Universe": for You ... for Kids, for Teens, for Parents, and for Teachers

Classical Music for children ... why are you here? Well, one reason could be that you want to know what Classical Music, or Classic for short, actually is. I explain this on another website. But as a teenager you might also look for such music works, which are cool especially for older children. And if you are a father or a mother, a grandma or a grandpa, or also a pedagogue, that is a teacher or a music teacher, then it could be your wish to find a small package of Classical Music works that were composed especially for children, or even "only" collected for this "target group". It is not that easy to address children at the age of six to twelve, cool teens and also grown-ups who could not be more different "knitted" at the same time on one website. That's why this "instruction manual" is available here in four chapters. Very quickly you can get to the 300 Classical Music works, that is to the 300 most popular and thus also to those Classical Melodies, which are exciting for all age groups, with a click here.

My "Target Group" 1: Are You Older Than 5 and Younger Than 13?

Okay, then the most important thing is that if you are looking for Classic for children, or more precisely, Classical Music for children, there is no such thing. So you can't find it either. But what you do find – on other websites – can really spoil your fun very much. Why? Because then you listen to these music titles and find that they can't be made for children at all. At least ... no way ... for you. And then you decide: "Classical Music is not for me". And why is that? Keywords are the evil. Music publishers and music lovers (... of course those who love Classical Music) put together a small collection of Classical Music pieces, which – for whatever reason – are supposed to be good for kids. But they were never composed for kids. And nonetheless there are many hits on Google and therefore many offerings for that. I think that they are not especially selected for children at all. I notice that because some pieces, for example, are simply too long to begin with. I now invite you to my website Classical Music Top 100. There you will find 300 works of music that have been considered by many, many people over many, many years as the most beautiful Classical Works and still are today. And these are people of all ages. So there are also children of your age.

There are two types of Classical Music: One is light, cool, and partly also known, cool Classical Music. "Popular" is another word for "well-loved". And such Classical Music is better to find with the keyword "Popular Classic" than "well-loved Classical Music". And there is, second, then all Classical Music, that is "harder to digest". Harder, not hard. But ... what actually is "harder to digest"?

This is the attitude of my wife and me: If a Classical Work is popular, then children, parents and grandparents will all enjoy it equally. With any other Classical Piece, it's something completely different. © Info.

To the 300 Popular Classical Music

hits to listen to, please click here.

"Hard to digest" Classical Music. Now... what is this? I made it up myself. But, who is this... I ... well ... the author of this website?

I am Peter Bach Jr., I am a member of the musical family of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, I have a hobby and at the same time I am on a "mission" ... so to speak: I would like to spread Classical Music in general and the knowledge about Johann Sebastian Bach and his music in particular even more in the world. And for this purpose the internet is the right and best medium today. One that didn't exist for many, many decades. Well, in the past.

I have put together some websites about the composer from Thuringia, Germany. Advertising Start. I have written a Biography About J.S. Bach for Children and also "invented" a coloring book about the musician from Eisenach, Germany together with a cousin of Bach and my wife Renate. With a click here, you get to the Bach Coloring Book. End of Advertising. Later, a website about the "Classic Top 100" followed together with the difficult answer to the question "What exactly is Classical Music precisely"? After all, this website here is the youngest of all.

... me ... or is it " I "...?!

Hard to digest Classical Music. First of all, "hard to digest" is exactly the opposite of "easy to digest." Sure so far. What is no good Classical Music for you is Classical Music that you most likely don't enjoy listening to to begin with. In other words, Classical Music that you don't want to listen to again. In the worst case, you not only never want to hear the piece you heard again, but all Classical Music. Never again. And that's exactly what I want to prevent. With this, my website. Hard to digest: That is, for example, when you hear a Classical Piece and a soprano sings – or just for the two of us and only here – "squeaks" up and down the scale and then up again and then down again. Or many violinists fiddle: a melody that you don't really recognize. Or that doesn't seem beautiful either. Or a piece of music starts very slowly, very quietly, and then just doesn't "get going" for many minutes. Or what you hear just doesn't turn you on. It just doesn't sound cool. Or a piece is actually two hours long. Or ... whatever. And where do you hear something like that? Practically wherever Classical Music is offered by chance ( ! ): on the internet, on YouTube, on the radio, on TV and at small live "concerts". Or when an artist presents a book together with a book author at a reading. And all of this is "hard to digest"? Yes, 99 percent of the time. How do I know? I have experienced it, determined it, analyzed it, tried it out again, experienced it again, and finally I paid attention quite deliberately once to whether Classical Music that you happen to pass by – for example, while zapping or listening to the radio – is all hard to digest. It is true! And I then asked myself why that is like that.

It's true because Classical Music is offered everywhere practically only for "real" Classical Music fans. And that's not you at all. You are just starting with this topic. But real Classical Music fans don't want to listen only – and again and again – to "easily digestible Classical Music", because there is only little of it ... in contrast to all Classical Music works. And that's why it's pure coincidence that somewhere you listen to Classical Music, that is, on YouTube, on the internet, on TV, on the radio, and even in concerts ... short or long ... you hear Classical Music that you like. So it just doesn't fit. 99 percent of Classical Music is not for you to begin with. From me, you get it completely different.

With me, you get to hear only and exclusively Classical Works that make you want to hear more Classical Music. And how does that work, why does that work with me? Because I was looking for these pieces of music, because I knew how to look, and where, and also, for what. And for who. Exactly ... for who! And I found such Classical Music pieces, which many people find cool, so the most Popular Classical Works. There is hardly any "squeaking" of top dressed ladies, you always recognize the essential melody very quickly and the pieces are for the most part very short or at least not too long. And you have heard many of them before ... that is, if you're more like twelve than six. It's called Light, Popular Classical Music. And that's where you should start. If you like these pieces – and you don't have to like all my suggestions at all – then you can set out to learn more Classical Music. Maybe listen to many more pieces by Bach or by Handel, or two more works by each of ten masters. And then also explore longer, more serious and lesser known titles. When you're older. Or you just stick to Popular Classical Music. Or, if you're closer to the age of six, check out this website again when you're later twelve. Finally, there's more "easily digestible" music, that is a format at "WDR 4 Klassik" (... it's German, but the pieces are not related to a language, of course), which offers three hours a week of very special Popular Classical Music. Popular is the decisive word in their title offering. The format is called WDR 4 Klassik Populär. Don't start with that, though, but first listen to many, many works from my "Classic Top 300", because it's put together even more specially for beginners and for children.

So, first of all, just click here now, and you are on another website at my 300 Popular Classical Music works collection and there it is best to listen to every single work with the green color-code for just one minute (... or even longer) at a time: and that on several days.

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There are cool hints in the list, and soon you will be a master in the music genre "Popular Classical Music". The pieces with the green squares, like above ... but smaller ... these are the perfect first pieces to get to know such Popular Classical Music.

To the 300 Popular Classical Music

hits to listen to, please click here.

My 2nd "Target Group:" Are You 13, 14, Older... or 19 Already?

You might feel the same way I did when I was your age. You hear a Classical Work here and there, you like the melody, but you have no idea what the piece is called, who might have composed it, and where and how you can hear it again. Or where to discover something similar. Works by Johann Sebastian Bach, for example, are used in countless films and television programs. More precisely, in so many productions that it is a truly endless list. And works by other famous Classical Composers are also often heard in movies and on television. But Shazam doesn't recognize such Classical Music and "Google Music Search" doesn't either ... so how do you proceed now?

Not at all. Until today, more precisely, until my list was compiled on another of my websites. I searched according to a very special system, with many YouTube results as well as countless Google results for such "easily digestible" Classical Works. And in no case for "Classic for children" or for "Classical Music for children".

In general – that's what I think – you would hardly ever look for "Classical Music for children" for yourself anyway ... at 13 or 14, and certainly not older. But what do you look for then? "The best Classical Works" or "The most popular 50 Classical Masterpieces"? Yes, that's what you usually do. I do, anyway. But then you just find the published selection of 100 Classical Music fans and thus 100 different opinions.

And what these Classical Music fans have put together, that is one thing that is certainly not: completely easy to digest. Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" is certainly the dream of a Classical Musical work, but... it is simply too long for your current goal (... that is to get to know Classical Music), much too long and in the beginning much too "hard to digest". This is also the case with his famous "B minor Mass", which is also divinely composed. Without any question these many lists of "best Classical Melodies" are all well put together. But not for Classical Music starters and not for children, not even for older children or children who are no longer children, but young adults between 17 and 21.

Apart from that, in my opinion, there is no such thing as "Classical Music for children" or "Classical Works for children", because such Classical Music was never composed. And for Classical Music connoisseurs: "The Children's Symphony" is not like toys, just made of music, or Mozart's "Cassation for Orchestra and Toys" especially suitable produced for kids. And if they are, these then homeopathically existing works certainly do not belong to the well-known and famous pieces. And last but not least, they are certainly not the ones that would eventually come to your home on a CD, if you order such a CD. But completely different ones.

But click once to my second website in the matter of Classical Music and on it to the list ... and there start with the green marked masterpieces. And another important thing: You can also like Classical Music if you like other music at the same time: all the hits of the weekly Top 25 or Gaga, Swift, Bieber or Ariana Grande. Both can be played side by side. Pop and Classical Music, heavy metal and Classical Music, country and western and Classical Music. And: If you like everything by Beethoven, but nothing by Bach, then you're on the right track, too.

If you have had real fun listening to the many, many works from my Classic Top 100, then you can "stay forever" listening to this collection, or with André Rieu (... if you can't stand André Rieu, please click here) and later on "WDR 4 Klassik Populär" (... you don't have to understand one German word to like the the Popular Classical Music) every Sunday for three hours enjoying similar, but many more works, or you can move on from my selection then further in the direction of "less light Classical Music". It's entirely your own decision. Alternatively, there is a whole media library full of other easier-to-digest titles from this radio station: Over 2,000, but ... they are not as easy going as in my "Top 300".

To the 300 Popular Classical Music

hits to listen to, please click here.

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My 3rd " Target Audience": Parents and Grandparents and Adults

There is no such thing as "Classic for children" or "Classical Music for children". That's why the potential for destruction is so huge when you want to get kids excited about this genre of music. Why is there no "Classical Music for kids" when Google lists so many pages with such results?

At first, "Classical Music for children" was never composed. With very few exceptions. And also here applies: Listen to "Peter and the Wolf" once. Only with the told story "around it" it becomes a single really known musical work of Classical Music ... somehow ... for children. Well, then there is, in a similar form, the "Carnival of the Animals", so there are already twice as many works. However, if I am not completely up to date with my opinion, and if there are Classical Music works composed especially for children, then – first of all – they certainly do not belong to the world-famous works. And secondly ... these few works are then not offered collected on a CD.

Now I'm assuming that you are a Classical Music fan. But of course, I'm also addressing parents who don't like Classical Music themselves, but who would like their offspring to have a certain enthusiasm for it. So you are a Classical Music enthusiast? Then it is especially important that you don't want to "sell" your favorite composer with all his works to your kids or to your grandchildren, but use the opportunity in the best possible way to trigger a lasting interest in this, your favorite musical genre. And that's where you simply can't avoid a launch via popular, light, cool Classical Music. With it, you offer the chance for kids and teens to initially find "easy-to-digest Classical Music" cool. From there, you can only move on if you have generated sustained interest. If it didn't work, you wouldn't have been successful with your favorite titles by your favorite composer either. But if it works, then there is still time for Wagner's complete works. But Wagner at the beginning? Forget it.

How do I come to this cool realization? Well, I have experienced it myself. In all variations. Contact with Classical Music is possible in five areas: on the internet via the (... usual) best lists, which I reject as "Classical Music for children" and as "Classical Music for beginners". Then, of course, on the radio, on various Classical Music stations. Further on TV, if you get "stuck" on Classical Music while zapping. And then there are those mini-events, such as very short concerts or – as I have experienced myself – when a musician or three musicians acoustically accompany and enhance an event: at a book reading or at the awarding of a Federal Cross of Merit (... only in Germany of course), for example. On all occasions you never hear musically trivial, simple or catchy music, but always such Classical Music that makes a beginner in Classical Music think that you don't really find such Classical Music cool. I am firmly convinced: Such experiences spoil the enthusiasm for more.

With my collection of the 300 most beautiful and most Popular Classical Works, I present the only such extensive collection of "easily digestible" Classical Music. It is also enriched with hints, with which considerations you should experience the pieces. If you like these works to a large extent, if you recognize melodies, if you enjoy what you see with them, then your way in matters of Classical Music can go on from there: perhaps directly to the music that inspires you so much as your father or mother or as your grandmother or grandfather. Now it may go deeper into the subject, because your son, your daughter or your grandchild then knows the "way back", if Johann Strauss, and indeed the son, with his waltzes is the greatest for you, but just not for Teri, Scott and Stacy.

There are also concerts by Rieu (... if you can't stand him, please click here) or the Classical Music station WDR 4 with its format "WDR 4 Klassik Populär" (... yes, even if you speak no German, again), which continues exactly where my list ends. However: You should start with my list, because here is simply even more emphasis than at WDR 4, to present many works that are pretty sure to please outstanding and then also make you want more.

Please, as parents or as grandparents, remember: There is no such thing as "Classical Music for children" and interest in Classical Music is destroyed for a lifetime at warp speed. And with my suggestions? Not at all.

To the 300 Popular Classical Music

hits to listen to, please click here.

WDR 4 "Klassik Populär"

You do not need to speak German to enjoy this offer.

With one click here you get to this destination. There you then have three options. But you're only right there if you've already explored many, really many titles in my ( ! ) Top 100. Why? Because otherwise "WDR 4 Klassik Populär" offers neither the one nor the other properly. There are then far too borderline pieces for beginners in the offer and for conservative Classical Music fans far too "shallow" and unacceptable works with it. Thus, to the offer of WDR 4 in Cologne, Germany.

1) Click there, and scroll down a little, and there you can listen to the current program via the play button ( > ).

2) On this target page, scroll down a bit further to the current playlist, copy one title at a time and paste it on YouTube. This way, you can listen in on the "fast track" to see if it's worth consuming more of this title. This works with the two further playlists of the last and the week before last below ... as well.

3) It's a gigantic option if you want to compile your own playlist with the best hits of my Top 300 plus other Popular Classical Music titles. Because then there are in the "Audiothek" in the "Mediathek" – and with a click here – a whole 52 shows that you can explore. Although the playlists are missing here, the titles are moderated. And anyone who wants to compile a list for life will certainly have the time and leisure to listen through from title to title and from program to program and thus find hundreds of more Popular Classical Hits.

Yup, suitable for children and simply cool for teens (... above) ... that's what it must be if you want to "outwit" your offspring with Classical Music. And you can do that with my offer via this link or ... you let me surprise you now. © Info.

But wait ... wait. Of course, there is one very significant and a few insignificant exceptions. There are a few "pulled by the hair" exceptions, but a seemingly ( ! ) shining light in the "desert of Classical Music for children":

Okay. First of all, there is the work that is always mentioned first with "Classical Music for Children": Peter and the Wolf by a composer who – and this is just my own opinion – only plays in the "fourth league" in Classical Music: Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev. His work is a musical fairy tale. Wikipedia says it is one of the most played works of Classical Music. Hm ... I don't know?! Prokofiev's Classical Music is embedded in an audio play, and with the right age range on offer, you definitely can't go wrong with it at about half an hour in length. More ...

Mr. Composer Prokofjew.

Leopold Mozart once wrote a symphony called "Children's Symphony", but who is Leopold Mozart? Well, he is the father of the famous Wolfgang Amadeus. But Leopold's music is "only" beautiful, almost unknown Classical Music, not especially for kids. Just ... except for this title.

Then there is the Carnival of the Animals by the French composer Camille Saint-Saëns, but I actually read this name for the first time only when writing these lines ... after my research. Well ... that's my "healthy half-knowledge", it's my own fault. Looking at cute animal pictures on YouTube and listening to a Classical Melody that fits perfectly to it – but that you wouldn't identify as "for children" if I presented it to you among several other melodies – that's okay. Without pictures, however ... it even rather "turns you off" in my opinion. The work itself can be found ... of course ... on YouTube under the title in the first line of this section.

To the 300 Popular Classical Music

hits to listen to, please click here.

The gentlemen composers Mozart (... however, Leopold on the left ... Amadé's dad ...) and on the right side, it's Saint-Saëns.

But the cool exception is what the Austrian Marko Simsa and some other creatives offer. And that's really a lot in terms of "Classical Music for children." It's a veritable symphony of suggestions. But ... and this is the crucial point ... all the real masterpieces are "enriched" with narration, that is, with stories. Simsa also offers press reviews for each of his "combinations of music and narration": from qualified and competent sources and with pedagogical expertise. If you want to get your kids excited about Classical Music, however, please don't start with his CDs. It's different, completely different, if you follow my advice and send your (... older) offspring to my "Top 100" first. Because after that ( ! ) the many combinations of stories ( ! ) so the reading aloud and the mix with Classical Music are finally more than cool. When Classical Music interrupts a story, then it is entertainment. Then there is ... after all ... "Classical Music for children". Simsa is an all-round artist when it comes to Classical Music and you can find his many CD offers at the bottom of this page and also listen to most of them. So, again the order compact: Send older kids to my "Classical Top 100" , they should "listen in" there once in many pieces, then choose Simsa offers and similar and finally of course also order. Have fun! There are three CDs in English, scroll to the end of the page after clicking this link.

To the 300 Popular Classical Music

hits to listen to, please click here.

Why actually not listen to Classical Music to fall asleep? If ... then the right one! And which is that? Definitely popular, light, relaxing, slow and beautiful one.

Classical Music for babies was a "red rag" for me for years, because certainly – apart from a few lullabies – definitely nothing Classical was ever composed for babies. But of course, you can very carefully "cover" minis with Classical Music very early in life. Playing the best, lightest familiar melodies to fall asleep to in the evening ... this is certainly significant for your dwarf's health and also promotes a possible later enthusiasm for Classical Music at an early age. But my recommendations for "easy digestibility" also apply here. Because this selection must be baby- and fall asleep suitable. "Just anything" ... is a disaster. So you have two options: The first is, you put together the really very best, easy, nice Classical Tunes from my "Classic Top 300". You can buy them, for example at "Amazon Downloads" or – if you use Amazon Prime – you can also combine them together to a playlist. That's right, you can do that with Spotify, too. Because we receive neither from Amazon nor from Spotify commission, there is the hint here that if you consider anyway whether Amazon could be "practically" free for your Classical Music needs because of the film and music offer as well as some free delivery, it makes sense to think about whether you buy 20 or 30 pieces, which could then give pleasure for each age for a lifetime. Please prefer my suggestions with the green square at the beginning of the line. Option 2 is much more convenient: And here is where advertising starts. Without my service, you are "out there" all alone. But for that ... there is my website. And right: For the present service we hope to get a little support for our missions to convince more people. With websites, advertisement and further publications. I have analyzed "Classical Music for Babies" CDs and also "Classical Music for Children CDs" for you. I have examined how many pieces are popular, plus how many are beautiful or wonderful. And how many are detrimental to a later enthusiasm for Classical Music. To do this, I checked to see if the pieces on a CD fit together for playing to fall asleep: the volumes, the speeds, the whole nature of the works. Much further down, there are some 300 suggestions for babies and for children and for beginners. That's around 500 individual CDs with around 3,000 Classical Titles. That ... was really a week-long job. If you buy from our partner music publisher, we get a small commission for our "missions" without making your purchase more expensive. And there you can also listen to samples, which is not possible with any other CD supplier. Here ... the advertisement is already at an end.

Finally, here is some more reading on the subject of "Health and Classics". "The Healthy" on the internet first. The title is “10 Wondrous Things That Happen to Your Body When You Listen to Classical Music”. It’s by Brooke Nelson and Dawn Yanek plus there is a medical review. The authors start to compare blood pressure after hearing songs from ABBA with Classical Music titles. Many studies are mentioned, and exciting results go from easing pain, via better sleep until sharpening your memory. "Takelessons" presents "10 Shocking Benefits of Listening to Classical Music", and it seems to be an interesting reading matching my first recommendation above. It’s always cool, when you research for information: When you read two similar offers, you might find one more crucial advantage. One fact is worth mentioning: Even if you listen to Classical Music as a background entrainment, you profit. There are hints to several studies. "WQXR" helps to find the Top 5 studies about Classical Music and its relation to health. "The International Journal of Critical Illness & Injury Service" released the most scientific reading about the subject. It’s a long article, and it is not that much constructed like the other “10 Best …”. However, if you want to explore "the whole nine yards", then here you are right. Enjoy.

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You Are Particularly Important for Me: Hello Teachers, Music Teachers, Music School Teachers ... My "Target Group" ...

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Do you also shepherd and educate such a bunch of rascals? Then I would like to excite you and give you "tools" with my websites on "Classical Music for Children" and on the subject What is Classical Music? As well as 300 Popular Classical Masterpieces and finally several websites on the star composer Johann Sebastian Bach on how to first get your "dwarfs" interested in Classical Music and then also inspire them with it. © Info.

Right here and at the beginning in all clarity: You are very probably "light years ahead" of me in matters of Classical Music. Even more so, because until recently a few pieces by Bach were the only Classical Masterpieces I could identify. And of course there is Classical Music for children. And that is in the sense of productions with stories of all kind that bring Classical Music closer to children. But to distinguish this from the concern I have and want to spread, that is that there is no compilation of well-known Classical Works composed or pedagogically arranged for children, would be too complicated. Plus, it would not be striking enough and would not be perceived in today's entertainment offer of podcasts, TV, radio and internet articles. Therefore, here is my – please at least discussable – thesis: There is no Classical Music for children.

Over the past decades, I have specialized – with my job – in explaining to children, young people and adults how things work in the world. How beer is brewed, how coal is mined, how a daily newspaper is produced and why press agencies exist. Also, what a big forwarding company does and how a health resort works behind the "scenes" can be experienced with my works. With offers like these, we – my wife and I, and in the past also with my father – are and have been a market leader in Germany for over 40 years.

Please help me and us in our mission to bring more kids and also more interested people to Classical Music. I'll go even further than I've already acknowledged above: Even if there are works in the listing on my website that explains "Classic" and "Classical Music" that you think in no way belong to Classical Music, then "the end justifies the means". With my little stars ( * ), the references to quite Definitely Classical Music (DCM) and the information to the border value of each piece, every sustainably interested person will be able to determine after a short time for themselves, which pieces of music belongs to Classical Music and why. Or maybe not.

Very close to the motto not to spoil the first contact with Classical Music, no interested person and also no child or not a single teenager will ever want to enjoy Classical Music again, just because my compilation contains borderline titles or because this interested person actually wants to get deeper into this topic. The probability that these provocative theses set up on my two websites will "turn off" potentially interested people forever is therefore extremely low. Especially because both websites do not address Classical Music fans. This group already knows instinctively what Classical Music is. Everyone determines for himself which titles belong to it and which do not. And if none of them can really communicate what Classical Music actually is and which titles belong to it in his or her opinion, my two websites do not bring any added value for Classical Music connoisseurs. And they are not supposed to.

Please help me to set up a counterpart to the many pedagogically different CD options on the internet to introduce children to Classical Music, who after a first listening to highly demanding works and randomly selected pieces turn their backs on Classical Music forever. From my website Klassik Top 100 the further way is later absolutely easy: You stay with the enjoyment of the 300 works, you continue on this path, that is listening only to "Popular Classical Music" with concerts of André Rieu (... if you can't stand André Rieu, please click here) or you listen now and then to the program "WDR 4 Klassik Populär" (... three hours a week, and you don't have to speak German, just scroll on this page a little). Alternatively, a future Classical Music fan then tries out how more of Bach, Beethoven, Handel or Mozart sounds. Or finally, you actually devote yourself to the highlights of Classical Music in general: masterpieces like Bach's St. Matthew Passion or Handel's Messiah and so many more are then "open for exploration".

You – pedagogues, educators, teachers and music teachers – are also so important to me and my mission because you come into contact with the next generation of students again and again each year, while parents and grandparents can only communicate their "entry help" a few times. In addition, you always address many students "in one go", not just individual interested kids. For your commitment I thank you very much ... and please forgive my pedagogically motivated musical provocations. Click here again to go to the sister website "Classic Top 100".

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And if You Don’t Share My View at All and Still Want to Buy Your Kids a Selection of Classical Works to Listen To?

Sure, then this is also possible, and I have no fear of contact with it. So here is a small selection of offers for you, and always one or two sentences of commentary.

Of course, the first playground for this is Amazon. However, there is one problem: We get no ( ! ) commission from this seller, that’s true, but I am also kidding, of course. Like on the German market, there is a huge range of such offers available. It’s good, that you can buy many CD titles also as MP 3, which makes a test listen possible. The thing is: You actually would have to test listen to all of them, just to figure out first about the musicians’ skills, next about what actually is offered, third what fits into our maybe meanwhile common philosophy and finally, I already have done all that for you meanwhile.

Maestro Classics is our number one suggestion, when it comes to Classical Music with stories around: "Peter and the Wolf", "My Name is Handel", "Carnival of the Animals" and the "Story of Swan Lake" are some options. No, we get no commission from this publisher as well, and yes, you can test listen. So check out if you like this in addition to my program, which is “just the music” regarding Popular Classical Works.

The Met Opera Shop offers a few CDs for children. The problem is, you can’t test listen and so you buy "the cat in the bag".

Rainbow Resource is a rewarding website for reading, and they offer several CDs which seem to come with a narrated story. However, it’s a pity, that you can’t test listen.

So the overall research leads to my opinion, that there is no reason, not to decide for a small summary of CDs, which I suggested. Right, with your purchase of one of these CDs, "Bach 4 You", the shop in the "Classical Music for Children and Beginners Mission" does get a small commission. But that doesn’t make your buy more expensive. Plus, you actually know what you will get – matching my philosophy – and I checked on the quality of all 250 offers on the (German) market. When it comes to “Classical Music only” offers, it does not play a role, that they are in German. One problem was, to check on the whole market, and it was like doing magic with keywords. After finding all these 250 CDs and CD collections, it was necessary to test listen to all. And with the result, you can decide today (… right, or tomorrow or when ever …) whether you want to start with a small budget or get the most Classic for your money. Without any detours you get to the Classical Music CDs for Babies, Children, and Beginners with just one click here.

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Classical Music for Children Is Classical Music for Beginners: My “Instruction Manual” to 300 Popular Classical Works on YouTube for You

A little "operating instructions" for you: about the now coming long list of music titles. The boxes in three colors ( ■ ■ ■ ) in front of the title inform which pieces should better be avoided at a very first contact with Classical Music, because they don't belong to my top favorites of Popular Classical Music ... because they are too long, because the known part doesn't "come" immediately or because of some more criteria. The gray boxes mark the pieces that are better left to wait a bit at the very beginning, simply because there are better ones. The pieces with green square are perfect, the ones with red squares necessarily explore only in the last round. Running time, link and name at the beginning are clear, remains the indication " > 0:23 " for some pieces: It indicates after how many seconds the known part of the melody begins, if that is not at the very beginning of the piece. The asterisks ( * + ** + *** ) tell you, how far I dare to go "on the slippery slope" with my classification of a piece: One asterisk stands for a little, three for "in the middle of the lake".

DCM designates "Definitely Classical Music" and with these pieces you will definitely not fail a class test. The exception: An arch-conservative classical music fan as teacher asks very "tricky". Kids, clarify what makes him or her "means", pay attention if he or she asks about the epoch ( ! ) of classical music and maybe read up on it here. Finally: I stretch the term "classical" very far. Also some Young Classical Music pieces is to be found in this list, that are pieces of Webber, Morricone and further experts. Read, as a conservative and especially as a very conservative Classical Music fan, here to my philosophy. Only a few times I present you also an additional alternative: This is very rarely, then, when I could not decide. Or when I found both versions so well suited to each other that I did not want to delete either of them. Presented by a philharmonic orchestra and in another form, it becomes clear why. Some examples prove this. Also, the radio station WDR in Cologne, Germany (... Westdeutscher Rundfunk) ... with its program WDR Klassik Populär. This offer, three hours per week, confirms by their selection of similar played works, that I am not "completely alone in the world with it". So kids and beginners: have fun! And dear Classical Music experts: my request for indulgence. With a smile. And finally: If you don't like André Rieu, well ... not at all ... please don't click away completely, but here. Please.

To the 300 Popular Classical Music

hits to listen to, please click here.

Now at the very end: Again I have concerns and want that really not a single student brings home a D or even an F "because of my website". So ... if the works of Strauss (... Son or II ), more precisely his waltzes ... or the ballet works of Tchaikovsky ... are not Classical Music on the justification that they were composed for entertainment, then this applies – actually – also to the waltzes of other composers, then this applies to obviously for entertainment of all works, which have something entertaining in the title. And there are really many other pieces that we would have to "degrade". Now it shakes even me! And I am tinkering – after the editorial deadline ... that's what they call changes among writers, when everything is actually already defined as finished – another category for you: DCM plus a small " ⚠ ": With this provocative addition, you'll pass even the nastiest test. And you'll be able to remember it quite well after such, my brain acrobatics. Especially good luck with a teacher for whom you need these little "apps":

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Consequently, Not According to the Alphabet: My Classic Top 300 ... Is Called “Classic Top 100”

Why? Because I'm always fooling around. Plus, you can find me better in the depths of the internet. By the way, if you prefer this, my "Classical Music Top 100 / Classical Music Top 300" in alphabetical order, please click here. And one more very important note for very conservative Classical Music fans stopping by: This list below also lists very borderline titles. If every music fan is defining what is Classical Music for them ... then I would like to do so, too. Feel free to explain that to your kids.

■ Händel Ankunft der Königin von Saba (Arrival of the Queen of Saba) 3:08 DCM

■ Bach Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 2 (Brandeburg Concerts) 2:50 DCM

■ Chabrier Espana (Rhapsodie für Orchester) (Rhapsody for Orchestra) 6:25 DCM > 0:23

■ Charpentier Te Deum 2:02 DCM

■ Steffe Battle Hymne of the Republic 5:18 > 0:30

■ Sousa The Liberty Bell March 3:49 DCM

■ Tschaikowski Der Chinesische Tanz (Der Nussknacker) (The Chinese Dance) 1:34 DCM ⚠

■ Williams Jurassic Park Main Theme* 3:27 > 1:10

■ Zimmer Der König der Löwen* (Lion King) 4:04

■ Grieg Morgenstimmung (Peer Gynt Suite) 3:53 DCM