# Classical Music Top 40

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-top-40/380925>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 18, 2006, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-top-40/380925 "2006-11-18T07:01:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-top-40/380925/21 "2006-11-19T15:03:26Z")

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Offenbach: Gaite Parisienne: Can-Can  
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik: First movement theme  
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody #2

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**Post date:** [November 19, 2006, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/classical-music-top-40/380925/22 "2006-11-19T15:10:20Z")

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[QUOTE=Polycarp]

Is Moussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” well enough known?  
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Michael Jackson sampled it in “History”. It might as well be a pop song!

I’ll nominate another:

Boccherini’s “Minuet”

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