Topic: ranking your favourite composer (Read 3541 times)

michael_sayers · on: December 26, 2015, 01:05:48 PM

I found this collection of internet pages which attempts it.

https://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/music/stats1.htm

My favourite composer - Franz Liszt - only comes in at no. 12. At least the list correctly ranks Tchaikovsky above Rachmaninoff. ;-)

1. 2. Bach, Johann Sebastian 1.583
2. 1. Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1.704
3. 3. Beethoven, Ludwig van 3.186
4. 5. Schubert, Franz 5.768
5. 4. Brahms, Johannes 6.356
6. 11. Wagner, Richard 6.826
7. 10. Verdi, Giuseppe 6.898
8. 8. Handel, George Frideric 7.360
9. 6. Haydn, (Franz) Joseph 8.506
10. 14. Chopin, Fryderyk 9.375
11. 7. Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il'yich 10.598
12. 12. Liszt, Franz 11.125
13. 9. Schumann, Robert 11.629
14. 13. Debussy, Claude 13.703
15. 25. Puccini, Giacomo 16.368
16. 19. Stravinsky, Igor 17.085
17. 16. Mendelssohn(-Bartholdy), Felix 17.240
18. 17. Strauss, Richard 20.121
19. 27. Mahler, Gustav 21.017
20. 18. Ravel, Maurice 21.425
21. 20. Dvorak, Antonin 22.036
22. 15. Vivaldi, Antonio 22.469
23. 22. Rossini, Gioachino 22.689
24. 24. Rachmaninov, Sergei 23.031
25. 23. Bartók, Bela 24.694
26. 26. Britten, Benjamin 25.316
27. 28. Shostakovich, Dmitry 27.087
28. 21. Prokofiev, Sergei 28.985
29. 30. Berlioz, Hector 29.297
30. 40. Gershwin, George 30.770
31. 41. Copland, Aaron 31.693
32. 32. Fauré, Gabriel 32.107
33. 36. Grieg, Edvard 33.568
34. 35. Schoenberg, Arnold 34.554
35. 37. Telemann, Georg Philipp 35.489
36. 29. Sibelius, Jean 37.245
37. 45. Bizet, Georges 38.799
38. 42. Donizetti, Gaetano 38.841
39. 38. Vaughan Williams, Ralph 38.923
40. 44. Purcell, Henry 40.194
41. 31. Saint-Saëns, (Charles-)Camille 40.298
42. 46. Weber, Carl Maria von 42.920
43. 52. Ives, Charles 43.040
44. 39. Hindemith, Paul 44.046
45. 34. Elgar, Edward 45.568
46. 51. Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay 45.868
47. 50. Bruckner, Anton 46.197
48. 33. Strauss, Johann Jr. 46.593
49. 47. Mussorgsky, Modest 46.717
50. 78. Bernstein, Leonard 46.859
51. 59. Bellini, Vincenzo 48.540
52. 49. Franck, Cesar 49.262
53. 48. Monteverdi, Claudio 49.916
54. 54. Barber, Samuel 51.091
55. 43. Poulenc, Francis 54.133
56. 61. Gounod, Charles 55.398
57. 66. Massenet, Jules 57.163
58. 93. Sullivan, Arthur 59.090
59. 95. Cage, John 60.885
60. 58. Scriabin, Alexander 60.969
61. 55. Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel 61.653
62. 71. Wolf, Hugo 63.082
63. 65. Messiaen, Oliver 64.148
64. 56. Janácek, Leos 64.762
65. 75. Scarlatti, Domenico 65.290
66. 60. Falla, Manuel de 65.291
67. 53. Villa-Lobos, Heitor 66.222
68. 81. Gluck, Christopher W. R. von 69.017
69. 76. Paganini, Niccolo 69.612
70. 67. Satie, Erik 71.279
71. 91. Byrd, William 72.011
72. 57. Berg, Alban 72.252
73. 90. Weill, Kurt 74.249
74. 86. Kodály, Zoltán 76.701
75. 79. Webern, Anton (von) 77.015
76. 74. Offenbach, Jacques 77.169
77. 124. Lasso, Orlando di 77.269
78. 130. Josquin Desprez 79.458
79. 77. Borodin, Alexander 81.175
80. 115. Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da 81.194
81. 64. Milhaud, Darius 82.485
82. 63. Reger, Max 82.754
83. 69. Smetana, Bedrich 83.718
84. 68. Nielsen, Carl 85.399
85. 70. Walton, William 85.614
86. 94. Rameau, Jean-Phillippe 86.909
87. 106. Albeniz, Isaac 90.089
88. 89. Holst, Gustav 90.571
89. 85. Schütz, Heinrich 92.661
90. 97. Mascagni, Pietro 94.672
91. 73. Delius, Frederick 99.841
92. 101. Grainger, Percy 101.666
93. 62. Martinu, Bohuslav 102.030
94. 82. Corelli, Arcangelo 102.918
95. 160. Ligeti, Gyorgy Sandor 103.198
96. 125. Scarlatti, Alessandro 104.047
97. 104. Dowland, John 104.768
98. ---. Piazzolla, Astor 104.784
99. 105. Meyerbeer, Giacomo 105.250
100. 88. Buxtehude, Dieterich 108.066

et al.

[the full list ranks 500 composers]

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