Siri can't understand plain English, or Latin, or Italian...

I have an iTunes library that is mostly the material from years of collecting CDs. It's not huge, but it's not small, about 600 or 700 CDs, around 225GB (close to 17,000 "songs"). I've recoded all the Apple Lossless formatted stuff to be AAC. That takes up about 49GB on my iPhone 5's iTunes.
Most of the music is classical. I've spent a lot of time making all the listings standard, including the composer, key, opus, number of the piece if appropriate, time period, and file type (Apple Lossless and AAC).
How can I teach siri to understand my selection?
For example, I'll say "Play the first Gloria of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis." Sadly (and oddly humorously) it says "I couldn't find 'the first gloria of Beethoven's Mrs. alumnus' in your music." [head slap] So I tried it again, enunciating as clearly as I could. Siri: Sorry, I couldn't find 'the first to gloria of Beethoven's Messe so Leninists' in your music." (Doh!)
Or simpler: I'll say "play Mahler Symphony Number 3" and I'll get "Sorry, I couldn't find 'Moeller Symphony number three' in your music."
Another, making it very simple: "Play Beethoven's Cello Sonata in A." It says "I couldn't find 'Beethoven cello Sonata in a' in your music." Yet, here's the listing exactly as it appears in iTunes under Beethove (composer): "Cello Sonata in A, Op 69: 4. Allegro vivace."
One final screw-up on siri's part: I say "Play Rachmaninoff Prelude in c-sharp minor." Siri comes back with "Now playing album 'Symphony no 5 in C sharp minor." What it doesn't indicate is that it's "Mahler's Symphony no 5 in C sharp minor." Rachmaninoff never wrote a symphony no 5 in C sharp minor.
Very frustrating. And I haven't even gotten to the issue of which performance of the same piece I want to play. I probably have 4 or 5 versions of each of the Mahler, Beethoven, and Brahms symphonies. Or, the two different recordings that Gould made of the Bach Goldberg variations.
So, how do I get siri to learn about my music collection and find the piece I'm looking for? It seems like siri should be able to be taught. Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Native language is English. When I've used the online database to retrieve names of works, composer's names, etc., it was incosistent. For example, one Brahms's symphony would be entered as: "Symphony No 3 in F, Op 90: 1. Allegro con brio," while another would be "Sym. in D number 2, first movement."
This made it impossible to locate things in my music collection, especially when I might have 4 or 5 different recordings of the same piece done with different orchestras and conductors. Clearly, the naming conventions must be the same to locate anything in a relatively moderate sized database like mine. This is why I went through each recording and made the fields consistent.
Siri virtually never gets it correct. I'd like to be able to teach it how to find the piece I want to hear.

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