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>>10036493
Listen to it. Some of it won't make sense at first. In those cases, try different performances and give it time. I personally couldn't get Bach's polyphony until I listened to Gould's suites, for example. Some styles will just take time to become understandable to you.
Read about the theory, form and history. There's lots of good resources on the internet (Wikipedia, Classical Notes), but I also found Aaron Copland's book "What to listen for in music" to be very useful and approachable.
As >>10036767 said, it is good to go to concerts. That is the natural environment for classical music and there you are most directly confronted with it.

Here are some favourites among classical newbies
>Beethoven's 14 piano sonata "Moonlight"
>Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" concerti
>Carl Orff's Carmina Burana (I particularly recommend this one because once you get used to the more complex styles, Carmina's simplicity might end up just boring you)
>Chopin
>Debussy
>Tchaikovsky
>Stravinsky's Rite of Spring
>Dvorak's 9th symphony "From the New World"
>Smetana's "Ma vlast" symphonic poems
>Moussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" suite (generally the orchestrated version seems to be preferred) and Night on the Bare Mountain