what are the ten best classical overtures (or five best)?

Question

i know that i'm taking a risk assuming that people even know enough classical music to assemble a list of ten. i know i don't know enough, and that is why i'm asking. for my 'overture blitz!'

Answer 1

1. Mendelssohn's fingal's cave
2. Brahms's tragic overture
3. Dvorak's Carnival overture
4. Bach's sinfonia to bwv 29
5. Beethoven's overture to op. 117

Answer 2

Light Cavalry Operetta Overture, The Beautiful Galatea Operetta Overture, Banditenstreiche Operetta Overture, Poet and Peasant Overture, The Marriage of Figaro Overture, The 1812 Overture, The William Tell Overture, The Magic Flute Overture, Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor Overture and Tannhauser opera overture.

Answer 3

While most of these are Romantic era and not Classical era, and Symphonies or movements and not strictly Overtures, my guess is this it the type of list you are looking for.

Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture
Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries
Beethoven's 5th Symphony
Mahler's 2nd Symphony - anything Mahler really
Beethoven's 9th
Handel's Messiah
Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake
Gustav Holst's The Planets (Mars)
Dvorak's New World Symphony
Vivaldi Four Seasons

Answer 4

I seriously like baroque music better try Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor.