The Best Royalty Free Classical Music for 2022

Hiring a professional composer isn’t doable for every creator, especially when you’re working outside of big budget production studios with a tight deadline. To license classical music for upcoming projects, you need a reliable alternative.

Fortunately, we work with talented artists everyday to stock our library with royalty free classical music that’s easy to filter, find, and license. To make your life a little easier, we’ve pooled together the top classical music playlist and songs in the library today.

If that perfect song isn’t featured in one of these lists, don’t worry. We’re also sharing how you can use our search and filter functions to find more music options for your project in minutes.

Hear our most popular royalty free classical music playlist

Classical music has always been (and will always be) connected to 17th century composers like Beethoven, Bach, and Mozart. But even though these figures come up most when talking about the best classical music, today’s artists are proving that this genre isn’t a thing of the past.

Our Classical playlist features some exceptional classical music from artists like Stephen Keech, Lincoln Davis, and Cody Martin. By selecting the “Sort By” button (pictured below), you can arrange these 50 songs in order of most popular or most recent.

Listen to our Classical playlist here.

Find more tracks you'll with Similar Songs

When you find a song that you like, you can select the “Similar Songs” icon and generate a list of tracks that have a similar tone and feel. This means that even if the song you like isn’t a perfect fit for your project, you’re one step closer to finding the one that is perfect.

Here’s an example of what you’ll see when you click “Similar Songs:”

Find more classical music with similar songs

This playlist is a great place to start if you want to narrow down your song search quickly and access a lot of classical songs in one place. However, if you want to listen to the newest and most popular tracks first, keep reading.

Check out our original orchestral music album "Awyr"

Our music library is home to thousands of royalty free songs, and classical music has always taken up a large portion of the catalog. (You can see all of your options here.)

Among Soundstripe’s classical music offerings is our first original twelve-string album, “Awyr.” This album was arranged and orchestrated by Soundstripe’s very own Adrian Walther, who collaborated with a team of talented orchestra musicians.

In the video below, Adrian breaks down his process for composing this seven-track album:

If you’re interested in listening to and licensing any of the classical songs from the Awyr collection, check out the entire album here.

Our top 10 classical music songs

In addition to these “Awyr” tracks, there are so many others to choose from in the Soundstripe library — and that number is always increasing. It’s only natural to wonder, “Which ones are the best of the best?”

Glad you asked. We've rounded up a list of the top 10 classical songs in our library based on popularity. Since we release new music every week, this list might be different in a couple years, but as of now, here are the results:

1. "Open Your Heart" by Moments & Caleb Etheridge

Genre: Modern Classical

Instruments: Drums and piano

Listen and license here.

2. "Captivated By Her" by Cody Martin

Genre: Dramatic Classical

Instruments: Percussion and strings

Listen and license here.

3. "A New Tomorrow" by Third Age

Genre: Uplifting Orchestral

Instruments: Drums and strings

Listen and license here.

4. "A Champion From The Ashes" by Third Age

Genre: Epic Classical

Instruments: Strings

Listen and license here.

5. "Heart Wide Open" by Sounds Like Sander

Genre: Cinematic Classical

Instruments: Drums and strings

Listen and license here.