St. John's College, founded in 1696 in the Maryland colony, has a great reading list. Divided up into four lists for each year from freshman to senior, it not only contains reading, but also listening with Bach, Mozart, Monteverdi, Haydn and others. I recall reading someone's opinion that a truly educated person should be as familiar with the Haydn string quartets as with Dante's Divine Comedy. Well, yes, of course!
https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-books-reading-list
They also include scientific articles: Archimedes, Euclid, John Dalton, Antoine Lavoisier... I kind of wish I had attended this school.
Let's have a Haydn quartet! This is the Vera Quartet with Op. 76 no. 1 at the Curtis Institute.
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