100 Most Popular Composers of Classical Music 

Andrea Boccelli ? ? ? What the hell? He´s a singer not composer !

My favorite composers Handel,js bach, telemann, Mozart, beethoven,offenbach

I wonder how many of the 1.8 million people who viewed the article on Leopold Mozart we’re trying to find Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Mozart ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beethoven ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Bach ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Chopin ⭐⭐ Tchaikovsky ⭐⭐⭐ Vivaldi ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Schubert ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Debussy ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Adorno 0️⃣ Kings 👇🏻 1. Vivaldi 2. Beethoven 3. Bach

100: Jacopo Peri 99: Giya Kancheli 98: Girolamo Frescobaldi 97: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach 96: Tomas Luis de Victoria 95: Pablo de Sarasate 94: Johann Nepomuk Hummel 93: Alessandro Scarlatti 92: Francois Couperin 91: Mily Balakirev 90: Dietrich Buxtehude 89: Giuseppe Tartini 88: Max Bruch 87: Orlande de Lassus 86: Anton Rubinstein 85: Pietro Mascagni 84: Carlo Gesualdo 83: Anton Webern 82: Luigi Boccherini 81: Jules Massenet 80: Charles Gounod 79: Arcangelo Corelli 78: Johann Christian Bach 77: Isaac Albeniz 76: Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach 75: Leos Janacek 74: Alban Berg 73: Leopold Mozart 72: Mstislav Rostropovich 71: Jean-Philippe Rameau 70: Georg Philipp Telemann 69: Christoph Willibald Gluck 67: Domenico Scarlatti 66: Johann Strauss I 65: Carl Maria von Weber 64: Gaetano Donizetti 65: Giovanni da Palestrina 64: Krzysztof Penderecki 63: Vincenzo Bellini 62: Vladimir Horowitz 60: Gustav Holst 59: Anton Bruckner 58: Alexander Scriabin 57: Alexander Borodin 56: Arvo Part 55: Jean-Baptiste Lully 54: Gabriel Faure 53: Jacques Offenbach 52: Mikhail Glinka 51: Aram Khachaturian 50: Edward Elgar 49: Clara Schumann 48: Glenn Gould 47: Claudio Monteverdi 46: Hector Berlioz 45: Modest Mussorgsky 44: Georges Bizet 43: Bela Bartok 42: Bedrich Smetana 41: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov 40: Theodor Wiesengrund(?) Adorno 39: Jean Sibelius 38: Arnold Schonberg 37: Camille Saint-Saens 36: Richard Strauss 35: Johann Strauss II 34: Gioachino Rossini 33: Edvard Grieg 32: Erik Satie 31: Antonio Salieri 30: George Gershwin 29: Giacomo Puccini 28: Sergei Prokofiev 27: Maurice Ravel 26: Felix Mendelssohn 25: Leonard Bernstein 24: Antonin Dvorak 23: Gustav Mahler 22: Igor Stravinsky 21: Robert Schumann 20: Johannes Brahms 19: Dmitri Shostakovich 18: Niccolo Paganini 17: Sergei Rachmaninoff 16: Claude Debussy 15: Georg Friedrich Handel 14: Giuseppe Verdi 13: Franz Liszt 12: Joseph Haydn 11: Franz Schubert 10: Antonio Vivaldi 9: Ennio Morricone 8: Richard Wagner 7: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 6: Hans Zimmer 5: Frederic Chopin 4: Andrea Bocelli 3: Johann Sebastian Bach 2: Ludwig van Beethoven 1: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart For anyone curious, the background music is J.S. Bach's Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor BWV 1043, the third movement.

Giya kancheli R.I.P.maestro

Where is Villa Lobos?

It was to be expected that Mozart and Beethoven would be at the top. However, I was a bit surprised that some pianists and also a theorist like Adorno would be among the best known composers.

If Hanz Zimmer gets in then I would say John Williams, Danny Elfman, and Henry Mancini deserve to be in there.

Пётр Ильич Чайковский красавчик, великий человек!

Calling Adorno a composer is like calling Michael Jordan “one of the most googled baseball players”

Don`t take this too serious people and yes, in hundred years time Bernstein will definately be seen as a classical composer. Moricone likewise.

If anyone is wondering the piece playing in the background is the last movement of Bach's concerto for 2 violins in d minor (bwv 1043)

Nah, Hans Zimmer and Ennio Morricone are 99% known for film scoring. That's the complete opposite for all the other composers.

Glenn Gould is a pianist and Rostropovich is a cellist (the ones I've noticed), They are famous because of being performers not composers.

Some people think that Beethoven and Mozart are only as popular because they managed to get hooked onto pop culture, but I disagree. Beethoven and Mozart have created the best and most timeless pieces in this group (I think Bach and Tchaikovsky come close). If there was only one piece I could listen to for the rest of my life, it would be Beethoven's 9th. For some reason it never gets boring. Mozart just has a ton of absolutely elite stuff, like the requiem, Mass in C Minor, etc.

Ich stimme für Franz Schubert, Antonio Salieri und Josef Strauss!

On the topic of Wikipedia, here's a list of composers by number of languages each of their articles has. What do you think? 1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - 212 2. Johann Sebastian Bach - 208 3. Ludwig van Beethoven - 203 4. Frédéric Chopin - 158 5. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - 152 6. Richard Wagner - 152 7. Giuseppe Verdi - 142 7. Antonio Vivaldi - 142 9. Franz Schubert - 131 10. Johannes Brahms - 128 10. George Frideric Handel - 128 12. Franz Joseph Haydn - 127 12. Igor Stravinsky - 127 14. Antonín Dvořák - 122 15. Giacomo Puccini - 118 16. Gustav Mahler - 117 17. Hector Berlioz - 108 18. Felix Mendelssohn - 101 19. Robert Schumann - 100 20. Claude Debussy - 99 20. Franz Liszt - 99 22. Edvard Grieg - 97 22. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - 97 24. Jacques Offenbach - 91 25. Niccolò Paganini - 88 26. Georges Bizet - 86 26. Maurice Ravel - 86 26. Jean Sibelius - 86 26. Bedřich Smetana - 86 30. Gioacchino Rossini - 85 31. Béla Bartók - 83 32. Johann Strauss II - 81 33. Anton Bruckner - 79 34. Dmitri Shostakovich - 78 35. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - 77 35. Richard Strauss - 77 37. Alexander Borodin - 76 37. Modest Mussorgsky - 76 37. Sergei Prokofiev - 76 40. George Gershwin - 75 41. Claudio Monteverdi - 73 42. Aram Khachaturian - 71 42. Sergei Rachmaninoff - 71 42. Arnold Schoenberg - 71 42. Clara Schumann - 71 46. Christoph Willibald Gluck - 68 47. Gaetano Donizetti - 67 48. Erik Satie - 66 49. Jean-Baptiste Lully - 65 49. Camille Saint-Saëns - 65 49. Antonio Salieri - 65 49. Domenico Scarlatti - 65 49. Alexander Scriabin - 65 54. Leonard Bernstein - 64 54. Carl Maria von Weber - 64 56. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - 63 56. Johann Christian Bach - 63 56. Edward Elgar - 63 56. Mikhail Glinka - 63 56. Charles Gounod - 63 56. Leopold Mozart - 63 56. Georg Philipp Telemann - 63 63. Mily Balakirev - 62 63. John Cage - 62 65. Benjamin Britten - 61 65. Arcangelo Corelli - 61 65. Gabriel Fauré - 61 65. Jean-Philippe Rameau - 61 69. Dieterich Buxtehude - 60 69. Olivier Messiaen - 60 69. Henry Purcell - 60 69. Pietro Mascagni - 60 73. Vincenzo Bellini - 59 73. Ruggero Leoncavallo - 59 75. Tomaso Albinoni - 58

True lis(z)t: 10. Liszt 9. Haydn 8. Schubert 7. Vivaldi 6. Wagner 5. Tchaikovsky 4. Chopin 3. Bach 2. Beethoven 1. Mozart Edit: lmao i just started a war in the comments

Although Adorno did write a few compositions, I'm sure he is mainly known for being a philosopher, now a composer.

Beethoven/Mozart = Real Madrid/Barcelona 🤣

POV: Out of allof these people you only know "Mozart" "Bach" and "Beethoven" 💀

The list is a bit odd, but I guess that's due to the source. For example, your number 6 (Hans Zimmer, the film music composer) is in the list of top 100 composers, while John Williams (the composer responsible for Star Wars, E.T., Jurassic Park, among others) is only in the top 200 list. However, he has more Wikipedia views than Zimmer, and is arguably more famous.

Century classical musician composer

Bach on Nr. 3 is a crime

Boccelli... I didn't see that one coming.

The baroque ones are my favorites.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) an Austrian Composer

Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould and Leonard Bernstein were brilliant pianists with a few rare compositions but not really classical composers that we can classify them in the same list with prolific masters like Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Debussy, Rachmaninov... etc. Hans Zimmer and Ennio Morricone.are two talented film music composers but not really composers of classical music.

my prediction was 4.Vivaldi 3.Bach 2.Beethoven 1.Mozart

My favourite composers are Mozart, Boccherini and Tchaikovsky

6 out of 10 and 3 out of 3 german origin. I knew that germans have a position in music, but i would never have expected an overwhelming dominance like that.

Many of my favorite composers weren’t even on this list. Arensky, Bortkiewicz, Glazunov, Lyapunov, Schutt, Bridge, Sévérac, Godowsky…

The true ranking: 1. W. A. Mozart 2. Ludwig v. Beethoven 3. J. Sebastian Bach 4. Frederic Chopin

It’s sad to see hans zimmer between tchaikovsky and chopin😂

Astor Piazzolla, have you forgotten him, you who understand music?

1:32 Domenico Scarlatti Born in 1685 is dead in 1757

Germans and Italians rule this.

Henry Purcell is my absolute favorite.

HOROWITZ IS SO UNDERRATED. That's that.

Erik Satie is my favourite composer

was bocelli actually a composer? wikipedia says he's a tenor.

Charles Valentin Alkan is very underrated

FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱❤️❤️❤️

Sir Anthony Hopkins, known for his film roles like ‘Silence of the Lambs’, is also a composer. Based on the silly criteria here -Adorno? Bocelli?? Rostropovich???-Hopkins should probably reach top 10

Surprised Barber and Copland were not on there.

For me there is only one top composer: BEETHOVEN! My top 10 are: Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Wagner, Brahms, Chopin, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Schumann.

My personal opinion, and I hope you can respect it, is: classical music is the period bewteen 1600 and 1899. No Renaissance, no 20th century, no 21st century. If a composer follows the style of classical music while being out of this period, such as Rachmaninoff, Saint-Saëns and Verdi, they should be called: classically-styled modern composers.

Schubert tops them all.

3:33, Ah yes, the famous composer Igor "Strawinsky"

WOW...Beethoven and W. A. Mozart at the top of the list. What a surprise!

Ok 2 things: 1 it shows how fierce the competition is, didn't recognize almost noone till no. 34 2 what the HELL no Pachelbel?! are you people insane go check him out!

who else is wondering why haydn is so low on the list

No Ives, Duffy, Britten, Walton, Stockhause, Varese, Boulez, Ockeghem, Byrd, Zappa, Ellington, Piston, Sessions, Brittany,, Cage, Schutz, Babbitt,Henze., Hanson Montiverdi ?

True,Andrea Bocelli is a singer

Ich liebe Franz Schubert, W. A. Mozart, Leopold Mozart, Anton Salieri, Beethoven und Joseph Haydn. ❣

The statistics are more than dubious!

How is Schubert not higher on the list!?!?

4 best composers of all time: 1) Johann Sebastian Bach 2) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 3) Ludwig Van Beethoven 4) Johann Strauss II

#40 Theodor Adorno? He did play music in his youth and was also quite active as a critic, but all (or if not all 99%) of his Wikipedia views are for being one of the leading social theorists of the 20th century.

Hilarious list. Hans Zimmer and Andrea Bocelli in front of Gustav Mahler and Giuseppe Verdi!

Love Tchaikovsky

*"Impossible, if Rachmaninov is Nr. 17, then im supose to be at least Nr. 16."*

Tchaikovsky and Rossini are the two most entertaining from my perspective. The person who did this list doesn't know that many of these people are not composers. That alone damages the credibility of this video.

theodor adorno: **”best known for other work”**

Chopin is a best!!

best composer of all time: William Byrd.

Bocelli a composer? Busy guy, great singer, but I didn't see any mention of composing. Zimmer is there, but no John Williams? Pachelbel didn't make the list? On the other hand I really enjoyed the selection of the portraits. Those Bach boys really do look like family.

Some of them are alive and make music for movies

Did not expect Bruch to be so low

Beethoven is number 1

Hey, how about Carl Czerny and Francisco Tarrega?

Olivier Messiaen has to be up there, right?

I love it that the music in this video was a piece by the greatest composer of all time, although he's apparently only number three in popularity.

Note the difference between Bach (33M) and Beethoven (61M)

Excellent!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Where are Purcell and Pachelbel? 😕

Vivaldi the best 💓

Joseph Haydn Looks like George Washington

My composers favorites: Rossini, Beethoven, Chopin, Grieg, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Aleksandr Alexandrov

Aram Khachaturian ??????❤❤❤❤❤

Who would be the n° 68??? Is empty void

Glad to see my man Ravel making it into top 30 ❤️❤️

This entire list was ruined by Bocelli. Are you serious?!

Adorno most likely has more wikipedia views for his politics/philosophy/musicology than for his compositions.

People: I love Vivaldi, he's my favourite composer Me: What have u heard from him? Also people: The Four Seasons C'mon people, there's a lot more stuff from Vivaldi than that

Richard Wagner ? He is not composer, he just own pmc “Wagner”

Telemann, Händel, Couperin, Rameau, Lully. And Of course, the one and only, Johann Sebastian Bach. Long live to Baroque!

Bach bethoven Mozart EZ to predict

Vidéo d'une superbe qualité !

Error !! How can we compare the great John Williams with Hans Zimmer!!!

My favorite composer is Bach, but why is Glenn Gould and Horowitz there? They are pianists, not composers! Well, they composed ocassionaly some piece, but not enough I would say to be considered as a composer, even though they technically would be.

Bach did not disappoint, I believed in him

pretty crazy

I expected Mozart and Beethoven to be in the top 3 actually, so I am not surprised But some composers here.... I really love but are not that popular, look where daddy Franz Liszt is, or Erik Satie, offen Bach, goerges bizet, Sergei Rach and many others, why they are not as popular 😭

I think that this list excludes some of the more modern composers, like Phillip Glass, or Frank Zappa (who would probably be Top 20 or 15 in here).

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly is a classical work of music and stands above Vivaldi and Liszt. Oh, yes indeed

Бахи настолько круты что их злесь 4

This title is somewhat misleading, take Leopold Mozart for instance, which has 1.8 views and is in 73 (1:24), people search for him not because of his music primarily but because he is Mozart's father. There is also the case of salieri(3:07), about who people search about more because he is known as Mozart's enemy than his music.

Where is John Williams? Morricone and Zimmer but no Williams?