The Best Music in the World

is a multi-lingual web site dedicated to music lovers, music students, music teachers, and people who are just discovering the world of classical music. Its objective is to make it easy for people to listen to the best tunes the classics have to offer, and to provide free access to the sheet music for these tunes. It also boasts a popular melody search feature, with a virtual piano so you can play a theme with the mouse or a touch-screen, and the system will search for the tune in its database. If it finds it, it will name it, play it and display the music notation for it.

are vital ingredients of listenable music. This site is particularly devoted to pleasing melodies. It is crammed full of tunes that have lasted for centuries and will continue to last for many more.

Each very different in style, but all masterworks. Mozart's Magic Flute Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream Rossini's William Tell

simply type the first few letters of any composer's name, and once uniquely identified, that composer's screen will pop up, from any web page in this site.

1970 tune entries, containing:- 515 scores as PDF; 1135 midi files; 1955 audio mp3 files 2699 dictionary themes; by 167 composers. plus heaps of traditional and folk tunes.

It now supports 6 web browsers:- Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Apple Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer. For more information about browser support see Frequently Asked Questions.

This site has a brand new page which sets composers into their historical context. It displays a time-line showing composers' lifespans, with optional comparison against timelines of historical events. A click on any composer on this page opens that composer's page with his music.

When you use the virtual piano of our themes dictionary lookup to search for a theme, all matching tunes now show musical notation and a green play button so you can listen instantly.