Rhapsody in Blue
1924
The famous clarinet wail at the start was a joke the player improvised in rehearsal, and Gershwin told him to keep it in.
★ 6.8
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Pictures at an Exhibition
1874
Mussorgsky wrote it for piano after a memorial show of a friend's drawings, and several of the pictures it describes have since been lost.
★ 7.2