Editing Overture (section)

==List of standard repertoire==
Some well-known or commonly played overtures:

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* [[Anton Arensky]]: ''A Dream on the Volga''
* [[Malcolm Arnold]]:
** ''Beckus the Dandipratt''
** ''A Grand, Grand Overture''
** ''[[Peterloo (overture)|Peterloo]]''
** ''[[Tam O'Shanter Overture|Tam O'Shanter]]''
* [[Daniel Auber]]: ''[[Fra Diavolo (opera)|Fra Diavolo]]''
* [[Samuel Barber]]: Overture to ''[[The School for Scandal (Barber)|The School for Scandal]]''
* [[Arnold Bax]]: ''[[Overture to a Picaresque Comedy]]''
* [[Ludwig van Beethoven]]:
** ''Leonora'' Nr 1
** ''Leonora'' Nr 2
** ''Leonora'' Nr 3
** ''[[Fidelio]]''
** ''[[Coriolan Overture]]''
** ''[[The Creatures of Prometheus|Creatures of Prometheus]]''
** ''[[Egmont (Beethoven)|Egmont]]''
** ''[[The Ruins of Athens]]''
** ''[[The Consecration of the House (overture)|The Consecration of the House]]
* [[Arthur Benjamin]]
** ''[[Overture to an Italian Comedy]]''
* [[Hector Berlioz]]:
** ''[[Overtures by Hector Berlioz#Benvenuto Cellini|Benvenuto Cellini]]''
** ''[[Le carnaval romain]]''
** ''[[Overtures by Hector Berlioz#Le corsair|Le corsair]]''
** ''Les Francs-Juges''
** ''King Lear''
** ''Waverley''	
* [[Leonard Bernstein]]: ''[[Candide (operetta)|Candide]]''
* [[Georges Bizet]]: ''[[Carmen]]''
* [[Alexander Borodin]]: ''[[Prince Igor]]''
* [[Johannes Brahms]]:
** ''[[Academic Festival Overture]]''
** ''[[Tragic Overture (Brahms)|Tragic Overture]]''
* [[Anton Bruckner]]: [[Overture (Bruckner)|Overture in G minor]] (WAB 98)
* [[Aaron Copland]]: ''An Outdoor Overture''
* [[Antonín Dvořák]]: [[Carnival Overture (Dvořák)|Carnival Overture]]
* [[Edward Elgar]]:
** ''[[In the South (Alassio)]]''
** ''Cockaigne''
** ''Froissart''
* [[George Gershwin]]: 
** ''[[Cuban Overture]]''
** Overture to ''[[Strike Up the Band (musical)|Strike Up the Band]]''
* [[Philip Glass]]:
** ''Overture 2012''
** ''King Lear Overture''
* [[Mikhail Glinka]]: ''[[Ruslan and Lyudmila (opera)|Ruslan and Lyudmila]]''
* [[Christoph Willibald Gluck]]:
** ''[[Iphigénie en Tauride]]''
** ''[[Orfeo ed Euridice]]''
** ''[[Alceste (Gluck)|Alceste]]''
* [[Antônio Carlos Gomes]]: ''Il Guarany''
* [[Edvard Grieg]]: ''[[In Autumn]]''
* [[George Frideric Handel]]
** Overture to the ''[[Music for the Royal Fireworks]]''
** Overture to the ''[[Water Music]]''
** Overture to ''[[Messiah (Handel)|Messiah]] and other Oratorios''
* [[Joseph Haydn]]: ''[[Armida (Haydn)|Armida]]''
* [[Ferdinand Hérold]]: ''Zampa''
* [[John Ireland (composer)|John Ireland]]:
** ''A London Overture''
** ''Satyricon'' Overture
* [[Édouard Lalo]]: ''Le roi d'Ys''
* [[Franz Lehár]]: ''[[The Merry Widow]]''
* [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]:
**  "Overture from Phantom of the Opera"
* [[Hamish MacCunn]]: ''[[The Land of the Mountain and the Flood]]''
* [[Felix Mendelssohn]]:
** ''[[The Hebrides (overture)|The Hebrides]]'' (or ''Fingal's Cave'')
** ''[[Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage (Mendelssohn)|Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage]]''
** ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream (Mendelssohn)|A Midsummer Night's Dream]]''
** ''Ruy Blas''
** ''[[Die schöne Melusine]]'' (The Fair Melusine)
* [[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart]]:
** ''[[The Marriage of Figaro]]''
** ''[[La clemenza di Tito]]''
** ''[[Così fan tutte]]''
** ''[[Don Giovanni]]''
** ''[[Idomeneo]]''
** ''[[Die Entführung aus dem Serail]]''
** ''[[The Magic Flute]]''
* [[Modest Mussorgsky]]: ''[[Khovanshchina]]''
* [[Nikolai Myaskovsky]]:
** ''Pathetic Overture''
** ''Salutation Overture''
* [[Otto Nicolai]]: ''[[The Merry Wives of Windsor]]''
* [[Carl Nielsen]]:
** ''[[Maskarade]]''
** ''[[Helios Overture]]''
* [[Jacques Offenbach]]: ''[[Orpheus in the Underworld]]''
* [[Sergei Prokofiev]]: ''[[Overture on Hebrew Themes]]''
* [[Emil von Reznicek]]: ''[[Donna Diana]]''
* [[Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov]]: 
** ''[[Russian Easter Festival Overture]]''
** ''[[The Maid of Pskov]]''
** ''[[May Night]]''
* [[Gioachino Rossini]]:
** ''[[La cambiale di matrimonio]]''
** ''[[Tancredi]]''
** ''[[Il signor Bruschino]]''
** ''[[Il turco in Italia]]''
** ''[[La Cenerentola]]''
** ''[[Semiramide]]''
** ''[[Il viaggio a Reims]]''
** ''[[The Barber of Seville]]''
** ''[[La gazza ladra]]''
** ''[[L'italiana in Algeri]]''
** ''[[La scala di seta]]''
** ''[[William Tell (opera)|William Tell]]''
* [[Franz Schubert]]:
** ''Overture in Italian Style'', D590
** ''[[Rosamunde]]''
* [[Robert Schumann]]:
** [[Overture, Scherzo and Finale]], Op 52
** ''[[Manfred (Schumann)|Manfred]]''
** ''[[Genoveva]]''
** ''Faust''
** ''[[Julius Caesar (overture)|Julius Caesar]]''
** ''Hermann und Dorothea''
** ''The Bride of Messina''
* [[Dmitri Shostakovich]]: ''[[Festive Overture (Shostakovich)|Festive Overture]]''
* [[Bedřich Smetana]]: ''[[The Bartered Bride]]''
* [[Johann Strauss II|Johann Strauss]]: ''[[Die Fledermaus]]''
* [[Jean Sibelius]]: Overture to ''[[The Tempest (Sibelius)|The Tempest]]''
* [[Arthur Sullivan]]:
** ''[[The Mikado]]''
** ''[[The Gondoliers]]''
** ''[[The Yeomen of the Guard]]''
* [[Franz von Suppé]]
** ''[[Light Cavalry Overture]]''
** ''The Beautiful Galatea''
** ''Poet and Peasant''
* [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]:
** ''[[1812 Overture]]''
** ''[[Hamlet (Tchaikovsky)|Hamlet]]'' (Overture-Fantasy)
** ''[[Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky)|Romeo and Juliet]]'' (Overture-Fantasy)
** ''[[The Nutcracker]]'' (Miniature Overture)
* [[Giuseppe Verdi]]: 
** ''[[La forza del destino]]''
** ''[[Nabucco]]''
** ''[[I vespri siciliani]]''
* [[Richard Wagner]]:
** ''[[Faust Overture]]''
** ''[[Der fliegende Holländer|The Flying Dutchman]]''
** ''[[Lohengrin (opera)|Lohengrin]]'' (both Act and Act III Preludes)
** ''[[Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg]]''
** ''[[Rienzi]]''
** ''[[Tannhäuser (opera)|Tannhäuser]]''
* [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]: ''[[The Wasps (Vaughan Williams)|The Wasps]]''
* [[William Walton]]
** ''[[Johannesburg Festival Overture]]''
** ''Scapino'' Overture
** ''[[Portsmouth Point (Walton)|Portsmouth Point]]'' Overture
* [[Carl Maria von Weber]]:
** ''[[Euryanthe]]''
** ''[[Der Freischütz]]''
** ''[[Oberon (Weber)|Oberon]]''
* [[James Barnes (composer)|James Barnes]]
** "Alvamar Overture"
** "Appalachian Overture"
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