Showcase: 40 Classical Music Themed Logos

Posted July 5th, 2012 / By Felix Diaconu in Inspiration

Music has long been a source of inspiration for designers — just as art has inspired musicians — and classical music, as it spans such a wide stretch of history and cultures from around the world, is certainly no exception. In this showcase, I pair 40 logo designs with the 40 classical pieces that either inspired them directly or certainly could have.

Aterna

Frederic Chopin – Funeral March

Julia Lebedeva

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake

Lonely Night

Ludwig van Beethoven – Moonlight Sonata

Music Seeds

Vivaldi – The Four Seasons – Spring

Neptune

Gustav Holst – The Planets Op. 32 Neptune, The Mystic

Anna’s Choice

Aida ñ Giuseppe Verdi

Cowboy Logo

Aaron Copland – Hoedown

Hairy Beast

Gioachino Rossini – The Barber of Seville – Overture

All Knight Long

Prokofiev – Dance of Knights

Enigmatic

Edward Elgar – Enigma Variations

Ulla & Markus

Sergei Prokofiev – Piano Concerto No. 3 in C major

Notta Instrumental

Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor

Elle Bee

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov – Flight of the Bumblebee

Max Tonne Gardening

Felix Mendelssohn – Spring Song

Mishka’s Family

Felix Mendelssohn – Wedding March

WPTITANS

Richard Wagner – Ride of the Valkyries

First Presbyterian Church of Fort Lauderdale

Johann Sebastian Bach – The Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

Storm Foundry

Ludwig Van Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 in C minor

Sonora

Franz Liszt – Piano Sonata in B minor

Blue Tulip

Aram Khachaturian – The Saber Dance

moonfly

Giacomo Puccini – Madama Butterfly

Seaside Restaurant

Claude Debussy – La Mer

Waterheart

George Frideric Handel – Water Music

Voortrekker

Gustav Mahler – Das Leid von der Erde

Summertime

Felix Mendelssohn – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

NuPlays

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Serenade No. 13 in G major “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”

Champagne Gunners

War Requiem ñ Benjamin Britten

Cyan Shark

George Gershwin – Rhapsody in Blue

Garden King

Joseph Haydn – String Quartet in C major, Op. 76 No. 3 “Emperor”

PARNEL

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Phoenix

Igor Stravinsky – Firebird Suite

Carp Clench

Franz Schubert – Piano Quintet in A major “The Trout”

Fuhrst

Frederic Chopin – 24 Preludes

Deutsch-Zentrum

Johannes Brahms – German Requiem

Colofish

Franz Joseph Haydn – The Creation

America

Antonin Dvorak – String Quartet No. 12 in F major, “American”

The Horn King

Franz Schubert – Symphony No. 9 in C major, “The Great”

Dostavka Korma

William Walton – Belshazzar’s Feast

FlyFinland

Jean Sibelius – Finlandia

Bolero

Maurice Ravel – Bolero

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Felix Diaconu is a freelance logo designer on BrandCrowd, a premium ready-made logo marketplace where designers sell logo templates (no logo on BrandCrowd sells for less than $250) and customers buy logo designs.