Top 100 Most Popular Composers

Brett and Eddy from TwoSetViolin got scores of around 50/100 and 36/100. Can you beat their scores? (Please note that some answers can be wonky when entered)

May be inaccurate as results are from 2017

Composers will be listed with the name they are most known fore (some exceptions)

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Last updated: April 27, 2023

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Rank #	Answer
1	Ludwig van Beethoven
2	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3	Johann Sebastian Bach
4	Richard Wagner
5	Franz Haydn
6	Johannes Brahms
7	Franz Peter Schubert
8	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
9	George Frederic Handel
10	Igor Stravinsky
11	Robert Schumann
12	Frédéric Chopin
13	Felix Mendelssohn
14	Claude Debussy
15	Franz Liszt
16	Antonín Dvořák
17	Giuseppe Verdi
18	Gustav Mahler
19	Antonio Vivaldi
20	Richard Strauss
21	Sergei Prokofiev
22	Dmitri Shostakovich
23	Béla Bartók
24	Hector Berlioz
25	Anton Bruckner
26	Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
27	Claudio Monteverdi
28	Jean Sibelius
29	Maurice Ravel
30	Ralph Vaughan Williams
31	Modest Mussorgsky
32	Giacomo Puccini
33	Henry Purcell
34	Gioacchino Rossini
35	Edward Elgar
36	Sergei Rachmaninoff
37	Camille Saint-Saëns
38	Josquin Des Prez
39	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
40	Carl Maria von Weber
41	Jean-Philippe Rameau
42	Jean-Baptiste Lully
43	Gabriel Fauré
44	Edvard Grieg
45	Christoph Willibald Gluck
46	Arnold Schoenberg
47	Charles Ives
48	Paul Hindemith
49	Olivier Messiaen
50	Aaron Copland
51	Francois Couperin
52	William Byrd
53	Erik Satie
54	Benjamin Britten
55	Bedrick Smetana
56	César Franck
57	Alexander Scriabin
58	Georges Bizet
59	Domenico Scarlatti
60	Georg Philipp Telemann
61	Anton Webern
62	Roland de Lassus
63	George Gershwin
64	Gaetano Donizetti
65	Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
66	Archangelo Corelli
67	Thomas Tallis
68	Johann Strauss II
69	Leos Janácek
70	Guillaume de Machaut
71	Alban Berg
72	Alexander Borodin
73	Vincenzo Bellini
74	Charles Gounod
75	Jules Massenet
76	Francis Poulenc
77	Giovanni Gabrieli
78	Pérotin
79	Heinrich Schütz
80	John Cage
81	Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
82	John Dowland
83	Gustav Holst
84	Dietrich Buxtehude
85	Ottorino Respighi
86	Guillaume Dufay
87	Hugo Wolf
88	Carl Nielsen
89	William Walton
90	Darius Milhaud
91	Orlando Gibbons
92	Giacomo Meyerbeer
93	Samuel Barber
94	Tomás Luis de Victoria
95	Léonin
96	Manuel de Falla
97	Hildegarde von Bingen
98	Mikhail Glinka
99	Alexander Glazunov
100	Don Carlo Gesualdo

3 Comments

Level 66

Jun 1, 2023

Well, I got 68. Spent too much time trying to spell Glazunov.

Can't believe I left off Prokofiev, Strauss, Barber.....Don't understand why Granados, Bernstein, Orff....not included. I'm pretty sure they are more popular than Heinrich Schutz, a composer one of my music literature profs spent half a semester on,,,,,,,,,,yawn.

Thanks for the memory challenge.

Level 56

Jul 11, 2023

I think this is too centred on "classical" composers... Cant' believe that some of these are still more known than Ennio Morricone, Hanz Zimmer, Michael Giacchino, Vangelis and others like them.

I'm also quite surprised that Offenbach and Pachelbel are not on the list

Level 39

Aug 4, 2023

Yeah, sorry if I made it that way... I happened to get the answers from an old list from 2017 (which I'd sort of mentioned at the top)

That being said, I might remake this sometime later