Every Major Composer's Greatest Melody (in my opinion)

If you watch the video start to finish you'll pretty much experience the entire history of classical music melody-making Listed in chronological order: 0:00 Claudio Monteverdi 1:38 Heinrich Schütz 2:23 Barbara Strozzi 4:03 Jean-Baptiste Lully 5:29 Henry Purcell 7:34 Arcangelo Corelli 9:13 Georg Friedrich Händel 10:41 Antonio Vivaldi 12:38 Jean-Philippe Rameau 13:39 Johann Sebastian Bach 16:21 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi 19:21 Domenico Scarlatti 21:39 CPE Bach 23:19 Christoph Willibald Gluck 25:11 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 27:17 Franz Joseph Haydn 29:38 Ludwig van Beethoven 31:09 Carl Maria von Weber 32:07 Gioachino Rossini 34:11 Franz Schubert 35:55 Niccolò Paganini 38:00 Vincenzo Bellini 41:15 Hector Berlioz 42:32 Gaetano Donizetti 45:09 Felix Mendelssohn 47:22 Robert Schumann 48:47 Giuseppe Verdi 52:10 Frédéric Chopin 55:00 Franz Liszt 56:42 Johannes Brahms 58:56 Charles-Valentin Alkan 1:00:44 Richard Wagner 1:05:10 Giacomo Meyerbeer 1:06:49 Bedřich Smetana 1:08:41 Modest Mussorgsky 1:09:40 Camille Saint-Saëns 1:10:48 Gabriel Fauré 1:12:47 Jacques Offenbach 1:15:27 Edvard Grieg 1:17:00 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 1:18:30 Anton Bruckner 1:20:23 César Franck 1:23:19 Alexander Borodin 1:25:09 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1:27:17 Erik Satie 1:28:55 Johann Strauss II 1:30:22 Amy Beach 1:32:15 Antonín Dvořák 1:33:20 Arnold Schoenberg 1:35:24 Sergei Rachmaninov 1:37:22 Alexander Scriabin 1:40:10 Claude Debussy 1:41:21 Richard Strauss 1:42:56 Ralph Vaughan-Williams 1:44:31 Isaac Albéniz 1:46:28 Gustav Mahler 1:49:54 Anton Webern 1:50:54 Igor Stravinsky 1:52:33 Enrique Granados 1:54:08 Manuel de Falla 1:55:17 Jean Sibelius 1:56:55 Charles Ives 1:58:27 Lili Boulanger 1:59:39 Edward Elgar 2:01:39 Gustav Holst 2:03:20 Erich Korngold 2:04:35 Sergei Prokofiev 2:05:49 Giacomo Puccini 2:09:29 Carl Nielsen 2:11:16 Leoš Janáček 2:12:39 Heitor Villa-Lobos 2:14:18 George Gershwin 2:16:15 Florence Price 2:17:20 William Grant Still 2:18:36 Maurice Ravel 2:21:31 Edgard Varèse 2:22:29 Paul Hindemith 2:23:59 Alban Berg 2:26:23 Béla Bartók 2:28:22 Olivier Messiaen 2:37:28 Henri Dutilleux 2:38:48 Nikolai Medtner 2:41:22 Benjamin Britten 2:43:10 Aaron Copland 2:44:03 Aram Khatchaturian 2:46:57 Elliott Carter 2:48:11 John Cage 2:49:29 Francis Poulenc 2:50:28 Pierre Schaeffer 2:51:25 Iannis Xenakis 2:51:58 Alberto Ginastera 2:53:06 Dmitri Shostakovich 2:54:33 Samuel Barber 2:56:52 La Monte Young 2:58:20 Pierre Boulez 2:59:28 Luciano Berio 3:01:31 György Ligeti 3:03:59 Terry Riley 3:05:46 George Crumb 3:08:03 Witold Lutosławski 3:08:34 Einojuhani Rautavaara 3:11:37 Salvatore Sciarrino 3:12:15 Henryk Górecki 3:13:41 Nikolai Kapustin 3:15:29 Morton Feldman 3:17:10 Steve Reich 3:19:04 Arvo Pärt 3:20:10 Alfred Schnittke 3:21:39 John Adams 3:23:36 Tōru Takemitsu 3:24:43 Karlheinz Stockhausen 3:27:12 Thomas Adès 3:29:40 Ben Johnston 3:32:48 Sofia Gubaidulina 3:35:46 Takashi Yoshimatsu 3:37:35 Krzysztof Penderecki 3:38:56 Jennifer Higdon 3:39:52 Philip Glass 3:41:43 Unsuk Chin 3:45:19 Caroline Shaw