# Classic 100 Chamber (ABC)

The following is a summary of the Classic 100 Chamber survey conducted by the ABC Classic FM radio station during 2008.

## Survey summary

| Rank | Composer | Work | Key | Opus | Completed |
| 100 | Rachmaninoff | Cello Sonata | G minor | Opus 19 | 1901 |
| 99 | Sibelius | String Quartet Voces intimae | D minor | Opus 56 | 1909 |
| 98 | Haydn | String Quartet The Lark | D major | Hob.III:63 | 1790 |
| 97 | Elgar | Salut d'Amour | | Opus 12 | 1888 |
| 96 | Bach, JS | The Musical Offering (Musikalisches Opfer) | | BWV1079 | 1747 |
| 95 | Dvořák | Piano Trio No. 3 | F minor | Opus 65 | 1883 |
| 94 | Brahms | Cello Sonata No. 1 | E minor | Opus 38 | 1865 |
| 93 | Poulenc | Sextet for Wind Quintet and Piano | | Opus 100 | 1939 |
| 92 | Schubert | Adagio and Rondo concertante | F major | D487 | 1816 |
| 91 | Nielsen | Wind Quintet | | Opus 43 | 1922 |
| 90 | Pärt | Fratres for violin and piano | | | 1977 |
| 89 | Beethoven | Wind Octet | E-flat major | Opus 103 | 1793 |
| 88 | Mozart | Horn Quintet | E-flat major | K. 407 | 1782 |
| 87 | Hummel | Piano Quintet | E-flat minor | Opus 87 | 1816 |
| 86 | Fauré | Piano Quartet No.1 | C minor | Opus 15 | 1883 |
| 85 | Grieg | Violin Sonata No. 3 | C minor | Opus 45 | 1887 |
| 84 | Mozart | Trio for Piano, Clarinet and Viola Kegelstatt | E-flat major | K. 498 | 1786 |
| 83 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 9 Razumovsky No. 3 | C major | Opus 59 | 1808 |
| 82 | Beethoven | Quintet for Piano and Winds | E-flat major | Opus 16 | 1796 |
| 81 | Strauss, R | Violin Sonata | E-flat major | Opus 18 | 1888 |
| 80 | Mozart | String Quartet Hunt | B-flat major | K. 458 | 1784 |
| 79 | Boccherini | String Quintet Night Music from the Streets of Madrid | C major | G324 | 1780 |
| 78 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 10 Harp | E major | Opus 74 | 1809 |
| 77 | Kats-Chernin | Russian Rag | | | 2008 |
| 76 | Shostakovich | Piano Quintet | G minor | Opus 57 | 1940 |
| 75 | Mozart | Piano Quartet No. 1 | G minor | K. 478 | 1785 |
| 74 | Schumann | Piano Quartet | E-flat major | Opus 47 | 1842 |
| 73 | Mozart | Flute Quartet | D major | K. 285 | 1778 |
| 72 | Janáček | String Quartet No. 2 Intimate Letters | | | 1928 |
| 71 | Brahms | Violin Sonata No. 1 | G major | Opus 78 | 1879 |
| 70 | Hummel | Piano Trio | E-flat major | Opus 12 | 1803 |
| 69 | Dvořák | Bagatelles | | Opus 47 | 1878 |
| 68 | Boccherini | String Quintet | E major | G275 | 1771 |
| 67 | Beethoven | Septet | E-flat major | Opus 20 | 1800 |
| 66 | Schubert | String Quartet No. 15 | G major | D887 | 1826 |
| 65 | Schoenberg | Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) for string sextet | | Opus 4 | 1899 |
| 64 | Mozart | String Trio | E-flat major | K. 563 | 1788 |
| 63 | Dvořák | Serenade for Winds | | Opus 44 | 1878 |
| 62 | Beethoven | Piano Trio No. 5 Ghost | D major | Opus 70 | 1809 |
| 61 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 16 | F major | Opus 135 | 1826 |
| 60 | Schubert | Fantasie | F minor | D940 | 1828 |
| 59 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 7 Razumovsky No. 1 | F major | Opus 59 | 1806 |
| 58 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 8 Razumovsky No. 2 | E minor | Opus 59 | 1806 |
| 57 | Beethoven | Cello Sonata No. 3 | A major | Opus 69 | 1808 |
| 56 | Barber | String Quartet | | Opus 11 | 1936 |
| 55 | Carr-Boyd | Fandango | | | 1982 |
| 54 | Mendelssohn | Piano Trio No. 2 | C minor | Opus 66 | 1845 |
| 53 | Ravel | Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet and String Quartet | G-flat major | | 1905 |
| 52 | Smetana | String Quartet No. 1 From My Life | E minor | | 1876 |
| 51 | Mozart | Oboe Quartet | F major | K. 370 | 1781 |
| 50 | Beethoven | Violin Sonata Kreutzer | A major | Opus 47 | 1803 |
| 49 | Beethoven | Grosse Fuge (Great Fugue) | | Opus 133 | 1826 |
| 48 | Arensky | Piano Trio No. 1 | D minor | Opus 32 | 1894 |
| 47 | Tchaikovsky | Souvenir de Florence | | Opus 70 | 1890 |
| 46 | Smetana | Piano Trio | G minor | | 1855 |
| 45 | Mozart | Quintet for Piano and Winds | E-flat major | K. 452 | 1784 |
| 44 | Brahms | Horn Trio | E-flat major | Opus 40 | 1865 |
| 43 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 12 | E-flat major | Opus 127 | 1825 |
| 42 | Pärt | Spiegel im Spiegel | | | 1978 |
| 41 | Mozart | String Quintet | G minor | K. 516 | 1787 |
| 40 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 13 | B-flat major | Opus 130 | 1825 |
| 39 | Haydn | String Quartet Emperor | C major | Hob.III:77 | 1797 |
| 38 | Brahms | Sextet No. 1 | B-flat major | Opus 18 | 1860 |
| 37 | Pachelbel | Canon | D major | | 1694? |
| 36 | Brahms | Piano Trio No. 1 | B major | Opus 8 | 1854 |
| 35 | Boccherini | Guitar Quintet | D major | G448 | 1798 |
| 34 | Debussy | String Quartet | G minor | Opus 10 | 1893 |
| 33 | Brahms | Piano Quartet No. 1 | G minor | Opus 25 | 1861 |
| 32 | Tchaikovsky | String Quartet No. 1 | D major | Opus 11 | 1871 |
| 31 | Dvořák | Piano Trio No. 4 Dumky | E minor | Opus 90 | 1891 |
| 30 | Tchaikovsky | Piano Trio A la mémoire d'un grand artiste (In memory of a great artist) | A minor | Opus 50 | 1882 |
| 29 | Ravel | Piano Trio | A minor | | 1914 |
| 28 | Schubert | Octet | F major | D803 | 1824 |
| 27 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 14 | C-sharp minor | Opus 131 | 1826 |
| 26 | Schumann | Piano Quintet | E-flat major | Opus 44 | 1842 |
| 25 | Mozart | Serenade Gran partita | B-flat major | K. 361 | 1781 or 1782 |
| 24 | Hoffstetter | Serenade (String Quartet – andante cantabile) | F major | Opus 3 No. 5:II | |
| 23 | Brahms | Piano Quintet | F minor | Opus 34 | 1864 |
| 22 | Messiaen | Quatuor pour le fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) | | | 1941 |
| 21 | Beethoven | String Quartet No. 15 | A minor | Opus 132 | 1825 |
| 20 | Schubert | Arpeggione Sonata | A minor | D821 | 1824 |
| 19 | Shostakovich | String Quartet No. 8 | C minor | Opus 110 | 1960 |
| 18 | Shostakovich | Piano Trio No. 2 | E minor | Opus 67 | 1944 |
| 17 | Franck | Violin Sonata in A | A major | | 1886 |
| 16 | Schubert | Piano Trio No. 1 | B-flat major | D898 | 1827 |
| 15 | Dvořák | Piano Quintet | A major | Opus 81 | 1887 |
| 14 | Mendelssohn | Piano Trio No. 1 | D minor | Opus 49 | 1839 |
| 13 | Ravel | String Quartet | F major | | 1903 |
| 12 | Beethoven | Violin Sonata Spring | F major | Opus 24 | 1801 |
| 11 | Brahms | Clarinet Quintet | B minor | Opus 115 | 1891 |
| 10 | Dvořák | String Quartet No. 12 American | F major | Opus 96 | 1893 |
| 9 | Schubert | Piano Trio No. 2 | E-flat major | D929 | 1827 |
| 8 | Mendelssohn | Octet | E-flat major | Opus 20 | 1825 |
| 7 | Borodin | String Quartet No. 2 | D major | | 1881 |
| 6 | Mozart | Clarinet Quintet | A major | K. 581 | 1789 |
| 5 | Schubert | String Quartet No. 14 Death and the Maiden | D minor | D810 | 1824 |
| 4 | Beethoven | Piano Trio Archduke | B-flat major | Opus 97 | 1811 |
| 3 | Schubert | Notturno for piano trio | E-flat major | D897 | 1827 |
| 2 | Schubert | String Quintet | C major | D956 | 1828 |
| 1 | Schubert | Piano Quintet Trout | A major | D667 | 1819 |

## By composer

The following 36 composers were featured in the countdown:
| Composer | Nationality | Works |
| Arensky | Russian | 1 |
| Bach, JS | German | 1 |
| Barber | American | 1 |
| Beethoven | German | 18 |
| Boccherini | Italian | 3 |
| Borodin | Russian | 1 |
| Brahms | German | 8 |
| Carr-Boyd | Australian | 1 |
| Debussy | French | 1 |
| Dvořák | Czech | 6 |
| Elgar | English | 1 |
| Fauré | French | 1 |
| Franck | Belgian | 1 |
| Grieg | Norwegian | 1 |
| Haydn, J. | Austrian | 2 |
| Hoffstetter | German | 1 |
| Hummel | Austrian | 2 |
| Janáček | Czech | 1 |
| Kats-Chernin | Australian | 1 |
| Mendelssohn | German | 3 |
| Messiaen | French | 1 |
| Mozart | Austrian | 11 |
| Nielsen | Danish | 1 |
| Pachelbel | German | 1 |
| Poulenc | French | 1 |
| Pärt | Estonian | 2 |
| Rachmaninoff | Russian | 1 |
| Ravel | French | 3 |
| Schoenberg | Austrian-American | 1 |
| Schubert | Austrian | 11 |
| Schumann | German | 2 |
| Shostakovich | Russian | 3 |
| Sibelius | Finnish | 1 |
| Smetana | Czech | 2 |
| Strauss, R | German | 1 |
| Tchaikovsky | Russian | 3 |