Does anyone know of some very popular classical songs that many people would know? I want to play some songs for my relatives that are coming to town in a couple of months.

For which instrument(s)?

Fur Elise- Beethoven

Sonata in C- Mozart (if you heard it you'd know what I'm talking about. I don't know opus numbers off the top of my head)

The Entertainer- Scott Joplin

Maple Leaf Rag- Scott Joplin (you can tell I'm a Joplin fan)

Well Tempered Clavier- JS Bach

Toccata and Fugue in d minor- JS Bach (for the organ, but its arranged for piano. I would know, I have it.)

...Just to name a few. :mellow:

For which instrument(s)?

Oops, sorry, only instrument I play is piano

Sondagger - Thank you, downloading them after I finish this post lol

Sonata K331 - Mozart (Turkish March)

Canon D - Paech... Peache... Pachebel (Is that right?)

Sugar Plum Fairy - Tchaikovsky

Hungarian Rhapsody Nº2 - Franz Liszt

Unfinished Symphony - Franz Schubert (Maybe you found a piano arrangment)

Polonaise - Chopin

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - Mozart (It's very known)

1812 Operture - Tchaikovsky

Turkish March - Beethoven

Die Valkrie - Wagner

Flight of the Bumblebee - Rachmaninov

Wedding March - Mendelssohn

Scott Joplin - A Breeze From Alabama (Not very known, but well...)

Light Cavalry - Franz von Suppe

There's some not for piano, but I hope I could help you, bear

Flight of the Bumblebee was by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, not Rachmaninov.

Die Valkrie - Wagner

Isn't that an entire opera? Or do you mean just the "Ride of the Valkyries" bit?

I thought Scott Joplin was Ragtime, not Classical, but Entertainer is still a pretty good piece.

Play on the piano:
1st movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. It has a funky key, but once you get used to it it's nothing.

Prelude 1 in C Major in Book 1 of Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier.

You can get both of those here: http://www.mutopiaproject.org/piece-list.html

They're pretty easy to play, especially the Bach one. They're your best bet for easy, well-known pieces. And they're powerful too.

Well, as many people might have said before, these are some of my very personal favorites of Classical Music:

Liszt:

Etude No. 4 - Known as the "Mazeppa" Etude
Mephisto Valse (Waltz) No. 1
Libestraume
Etude No. 8 - Known as the "Wilde Jage" Etude
Benediction De Deau Dans La Solitude

Beethoven:

Bagatelle for Piano in A Minor - Known as the "Fur Elise"
The "Moonlight" Sonata in C# Minor
Sonata No. 27
Sonata No. 31
Sonata No. 32
Sonata No. 2 (Op. 49) Second Movment - Tiempo de Minute
Symphony No. 5 in C Minor
Symphony No. 9
The "Emperor" Piano Concerto in Eb Major (Greatest piece of Beethoven I think, in my opinion anyway. Especially the second movment, the most moving piece I have heard)

Chopin:

12 Etudes, Op. 10
12 Etudes, Op. 25
24 Preludes, Op. 28 + 1 Prelude, Op. 48
Sonata No. 2 - Bb Minor
Sonata No. 3 - B Minor
Scherzo
Piano Concerto No. 2 (And 1. I like 2 better though.)
Nocturne in C# Minor, Op. After Death

Debussy:

Clair De Lune

Brahms:

Melody in G Minor

Mozart:

Divertimento No. 1 (Finale)
Divertimento No. 9 (Finale)
Eine Kline Nachmusik (A Little Night Music)
Symphony No. 1
Ave Verum Corpus
Mass Reqium (Wasn't ever finished.)
Sonata in C Major
Allegra alla Turca (Turkish March - from Sonata in A Minor)

Gershwin:

Concerto in F (Only thing [of his] that I would consider a liking of classical taste.)

EDIT : Just noticed you want for piano only. Sorry, but most of them CAN be arranged. Or just get the CD's to listen to!