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Are you thinking of 1812 Overture by Tchaikovsky?
If you like churchish-sounding music, you'll find a lot of that written by Bach and his forebears. If you like numble keyboard music, try Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Lizst. The earlier composers listed have a drier, more straight-forward sound than the later ones, who are more melodic and moody. Classical music excels in the chamber mediums, such as string quartet. For those, try Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven--in the 20th century, Bartok wrote 6 great quartets. Orchestral music covers a lot of emotional territory. Mozart, Beethoven for symphonies, Liszt and Tchaikovsky for tone poems (more story-telling through music). For opera, try Verdi, Puccini, and Wagner. For 20th century music, you might like Debussy, Bartok, and Copland for the not-too-esoteric side of things. For the really beautiful, far-out stuff, then Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Stravinsky, Boulez, Babbitt, Carter, Berio, and Stockhausen are great.
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