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List of classical artists

Here is a list of classical artists on Spotify, ranked based on popularity, who exemplifies the classical genre. You can find out what classical genre sounds like where you can preview artists or sort them the way you want, just click the headers to sort.

#	name	Popularity	instrumentalness	danceability	energy	acousticness	Happiness	tempo	followers
1	Johann Sebastian Bach	76	79	19	19	95	19	95	4015033
2	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	74	76	58	14	89	38	115	5037548
3	London Symphony Orchestra	72	79	28	20	86	20	108	276001
4	Frédéric Chopin	72	89	41	8	98	32	89	3048933
5	Ludwig van Beethoven	71	79	27	9	93	16	120	4851841
6	Berliner Philharmoniker	70	86	22	15	98	12	109	189895
7	Antonio Vivaldi	69	76	35	24	87	22	139	2228448
8	Claude Debussy	68	62	36	5	95	8	95	1418559
9	Herbert von Karajan	67	61	35	29	73	32	125	156960
10	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	67	0	0	0	0	0	0	1145232
11	Erik Satie	66	91	50	6	99	17	83	736272
12	Wiener Philharmoniker	66	0	0	0	0	0	0	119128
13	Johannes Brahms	65	87	34	10	98	29	124	882529
14	Academy of St. Martin in the Fields	65	75	26	10	93	16	110	50288
15	Camille Saint-Saëns	64	0	0	0	0	0	0	336261
16	George Frideric Handel	64	0	0	0	0	0	0	834483
17	Sergei Rachmaninoff	63	89	52	7	99	5	115	619331
18	Franz Schubert	63	0	0	0	0	0	0	1011944
19	Edvard Grieg	62	0	0	0	0	0	0	492634
20	Gabriel Fauré	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	183594
21	Claudio Abbado	61	0	0	0	0	0	0	49987
22	Daniel Barenboim	61	90	35	7	99	30	110	119292
23	Franz Liszt	61	83	37	30	96	31	124	730859
24	Giacomo Puccini	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	418239
25	Giuseppe Verdi	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	599048
26	Leonard Bernstein	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	191034
27	Felix Mendelssohn	60	75	34	23	88	21	168	480719
28	Philip Glass	60	87	25	9	88	6	104	580587
29	Itzhak Perlman	59	22	23	7	92	20	96	135986
30	Dmitri Shostakovich	59	0	0	0	0	0	0	364905
31	Maurice Ravel	59	0	0	0	0	0	0	460314
32	Antonín Dvořák	59	0	0	0	0	0	0	552895
33	Jean Sibelius	58	0	0	0	0	0	0	213795
34	Georges Bizet	58	0	0	0	0	0	0	236584
35	Johann Pachelbel	57	81	18	19	92	22	80	148073
36	Glenn Gould	57	88	40	18	99	49	92	234733
37	New York Philharmonic	56	0	0	0	0	0	0	100192
38	Sergei Prokofiev	56	0	0	0	0	0	0	232691
39	Edward Elgar	56	92	19	17	98	11	172	160053
40	Arcangelo Corelli	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	116881
41	Johann Strauss II	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	441009
42	Gustav Mahler	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	287136
43	Alexander Scriabin	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	59724
44	Léo Delibes	54	89	20	14	98	11	74	49115
45	Joseph Haydn	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	579376
46	Henry Purcell	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	154504
47	Jean-Philippe Rameau	54	0	0	0	0	0	0	68239
48	Richard Wagner	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	598276
49	Martha Argerich	53	91	30	22	98	14	71	134027
50	Niccolò Paganini	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	348736
51	Gustav Holst	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	158657
52	Ottorino Respighi	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	42809
53	Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach	52	86	26	15	95	31	141	111319
54	Christoph Willibald Gluck	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	33476
55	Vladimir Ashkenazy	52	91	31	2	99	8	76	67587
56	Gioachino Rossini	52	41	48	40	79	32	147	203439
57	Modest Mussorgsky	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	63921
58	Georg Philipp Telemann	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	123871
59	Aram Khachaturian	51	0	0	0	0	0	0	66107
60	Arvo Pärt	51	93	54	2	99	28	105	235283
61	Jules Massenet	51	0	0	0	0	0	0	31100
62	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	51	0	0	0	0	0	0	98061
63	Vladimir Horowitz	50	85	34	13	98	23	101	127093
64	Pierre Boulez	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	38157
65	Ralph Vaughan Williams	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	92692
66	Jacques Offenbach	50	2	41	36	85	51	95	96521
67	Alexander Borodin	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	39977
68	Tomaso Albinoni	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	163761
69	Béla Bartók	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	95883
70	Domenico Scarlatti	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	139902
71	Carl Maria von Weber	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	44488
72	George Gershwin	49	91	42	8	99	38	89	295381
73	Richard Strauss	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	218316
74	Igor Stravinsky	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	325603
75	Clara Schumann	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	28648
76	Charles Gounod	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	27916
77	Luigi Boccherini	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	103304
78	Frederick Delius	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	23939
79	Francis Poulenc	49	94	45	12	99	29	78	36563
80	Maria Callas	49	2	25	14	98	13	94	290579
81	Mstislav Rostropovich	48	82	17	9	95	3	84	57412
82	Bedřich Smetana	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	87444
83	Gaetano Donizetti	48	0	0	0	0	0	0	70876
84	Arthur Rubinstein	48	89	35	11	98	16	90	114148
85	Samuel Barber	48	76	9	11	88	4	85	105797
86	Joaquín Rodrigo	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	40522
87	Benjamin Britten	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	43206
88	François Couperin	46	0	0	0	0	0	0	43233
89	Jean-Baptiste Lully	46	0	0	0	0	0	0	53660
90	Pietro Mascagni	46	0	0	0	0	0	0	42831
91	Claudio Monteverdi	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	132451
92	Aaron Copland	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	90624
93	Vincenzo Bellini	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	45192
94	Leoš Janáček	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	23450
95	Arnold Schoenberg	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	65884
96	Fritz Kreisler	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	39852
97	Giuseppe Tartini	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	50752
98	Giovanni Battista Pergolesi	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	63435
99	César Franck	44	0	0	0	0	0	0	42582
100	Alexander Glazunov	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	16548
101	Manuel de Falla	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	42349
102	Max Bruch	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	53967
103	Steve Reich	43	75	53	45	97	36	106	209216
104	Hildegard von Bingen	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	71801
105	Isaac Albéniz	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	43430
106	John Dowland	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	22892
107	Amilcare Ponchielli	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	14153
108	Heitor Villa-Lobos	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	75628
109	Sviatoslav Richter	41	89	36	9	99	19	95	66458
110	Anton Bruckner	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	60365
111	Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	36392
112	Marin Marais	41	0	19	5	89	13	79	28972
113	Hector Berlioz	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	105327
114	Johann Strauss I	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	43126
115	Krzysztof Penderecki	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	44010
116	Pablo de Sarasate	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	28281
117	Carl Nielsen	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	10583
118	Alessandro Scarlatti	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	31197
119	John Adams	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	58659
120	William Byrd	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	15967
121	John Cage	38	84	34	8	59	78	89	98140
122	Paul Hindemith	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	18169
123	Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	17242
124	György Ligeti	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	65146
125	Paul Dukas	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	10460
126	Dietrich Buxtehude	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	27008
127	Marc-Antoine Charpentier	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	17512
128	Michael Praetorius	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	7155
129	Josquin des Prez	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	19607
130	Giulio Caccini	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	5544
131	Anton Rubinstein	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	5573
132	Olivier Messiaen	33	89	25	3	99	3	77	45148
133	Toru Takemitsu	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	25142
134	Anton Webern	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	16832
135	Henryk Wieniawski	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	21442
136	Orlande de Lassus	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	11018
137	Antonio Salieri	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	53383
138	Girolamo Frescobaldi	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	18714
139	Guillaume Dufay	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	11614
140	Guillaume de Machaut	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	11968
141	Darius Milhaud	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	13508
142	Heinrich Schütz	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	10288
143	Carlo Gesualdo	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	14383
144	Alban Berg	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	17086
145	Johannes Ockeghem	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	8246
146	Jörg Widmann	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	1964
147	Charles Ives	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	24817
148	George Enescu	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	8554
149	Giovanni Gabrieli	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	10208
150	Angele Dubeau, Ensemble Amati, Raymond Dessaints	22	32	14	8	85	7	98	343
151	Arthur Honegger	20	84	29	34	81	14	85	7725
152	Johann Bach	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	58848
153	Giovanni Pacoloni	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	246
154	Sieur de Machy	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	123
155	Hans Weck	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	8

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