What are some classic music pieces about the family?

Try children’s songs. Many are about relationships in the family.

My Coat of Many Colors by Dolly Parton https://www.yahoo.com/gma/dolly-parton-performs-coat-many-061021384.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAJqfG8t1x5MTc4OUU3dkwANMIzG0Il0EtA0jI1zPdk5_6b4Kzdj85pzNKRl0qq_yNxAOiEFZjk37NsEkyzRr6QYTeBIcTSQPBJyzCSFRA1Buy6LlCZl8GB_qGbha7GxJbWESNFNhIryDj5w97ZJQwMRzxuBZOkSr2VqVzQFNYX2p

I found this link. https://www.joincake.com/blog/songs-about-family/

@snowberry I think the OP is asking about classical music.

How about Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker which is about the children’s Christmas Eve? Or perhaps The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart?

Hansel and Gretel, an opera by Engelbert Humperdink. Honest, that was his name!

The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár

Did you ever hear of Sweet Betsy from Pike?
Who crossed the wide prairie with her husband Ike?

In a cavern, in a canyon
excavating for a mine,
lived a miner, a Forty-niner
and his daughter, Clemintine.

Kindertotenlieder – Gustav Mahler

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… kinda wish I could add more keywords/topics/tags to the question…

@eceryone In the first question the OP said they wanted “classical” music about the family. Then below it they expanded it to include marching bands, among others. That means that any songs about the family are ok (which would include folk songs and children’s songs).

I searched for “hymns by topic” and found this: https://genius.com/Collin-raye-a-mother-and-fathers-prayer-feat-melissa-manchester-lyrics

When i searched for songs for Mother’s Day, I found this: https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-songs-about-moms/

Then I searched for songs for Father’s Day: https://parade.com/1050162/jessicasager/fathers-day-songs/
There were many links to choose from.

I searched for songs about siblings, brothers, sisters, etc, and found many more links. Here are a bunch of songs about grandparents. https://www.joincake.com/blog/songs-for-grandparents/

@snowberry… oh… I thought marching music
fit in the broad classic cathegory…
perhaps I’m mistaken…? (”._.)

YouTube says theres classical marching band music, but I never thought of it that way. Does marching band music have words to the songs?

Would Peter and the Wolf fit your criteria? There’s a little boy and there’s a grandmother as I recall, but the story is narrated, not sung.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Wolf

@snowberry That’s a wonderful suggestion. Peter and the Wolf is a great introduction to classical music for children.

@FnuLnu My mother introduced me to The Grand Canyon Suite when I was a little girl, and she helped me imagine the little burro on the trail he made. I practically wore that record out.

Only problem is, it’s not about the family. What are you planning to do with this music? Do you want to teach children to enjoy classical music? If so, consider showing them Disney’s Fantasia (a movie).