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I draw to your attention, from the pen of the late esteemed American steampunk sci-fi author George Alec Effinger, in his book 'The Aliens Who Knew, I Mean, Everything',
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12088569-the-aliens-who-knew-i-mean-everything-target
... the following quote involving a knowledgeable alien named Pleen:
"I felt just a trifle annoyed. What could this nuhp, who came from some weirdo planet God alone knows how far away, from some society with not the slightest connection to our heritage and culture, what could this nuhp know of what Beethoven's Ninth Symphony aroused in our human souls? “Tell me, then, Pleen,” I said in my ominously soft voice, “what is the best human musical composition?”
“The score from the motion picture Ben-Hur, by Miklos Ròzsa,” he said simply. What could I do but nod my head in silence? It wasn't worth starting an interplanetary incident over."
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