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List of contemporary classical artists

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

#	name	popularity	followers
1	Terry Riley	33	76520
2	John Adams	35	60444
3	Pierre Boulez	47	39840
4	Kaija Saariaho	23	12934
5	Arvo Pärt	51	247048
6	Hans Werner Henze	14	3568
7	John Cage	38	104496
8	Louis Andriessen	11	6599
9	Witold Lutosławski	23	9896
10	Toru Takemitsu	30	27082
11	Pauline Oliveros	23	29084
12	Philip Glass	58	605400
13	Thomas Adès	32	13022
14	Morton Feldman	33	33907
15	Meredith Monk	37	51811
16	Elliott Carter	11	5898
17	Olivier Messiaen	31	47718
18	Gavin Bryars	24	17261
19	Iannis Xenakis	20	36220
20	György Ligeti	33	69174
21	Ensemble Intercontemporain	21	6094
22	Steve Reich	43	219430
23	Kronos Quartet	47	111073
24	Unsuk Chin	24	4107
25	Arditti Quartet	19	6295
26	La Monte Young	10	16643
27	Ensemble Recherche	18	2868
28	John Tavener	36	17436
29	George Benjamin	12	2174
30	Klangforum Wien	11	2342
31	Sofia Gubaidulina	15	11588
32	JACK Quartet	11	3140
33	Krzysztof Penderecki	39	46337
34	Peter Eötvös	13	2281
35	Lou Harrison	15	4962
36	Harry Partch	20	12008
37	Alexander Scriabin	55	66652
38	Karlheinz Stockhausen	24	52916
39	Luciano Berio	37	17228
40	Charles Wuorinen	12	942
41	Caroline Shaw	32	28279
42	Michael Torke	14	1599
43	Pēteris Vasks	25	8649
44	Alvin Lucier	11	9603
45	Frederic Rzewski	20	4270
46	György Kurtág	38	8531
47	David Lang	28	26082
48	Bang On A Can All-Stars	22	9530
49	Conlon Nancarrow	10	7783
50	Paul Hindemith	35	19080
51	George Crumb	15	9346
52	Leoš Janáček	40	25222
53	Hans Abrahamsen	18	2348
54	James MacMillan	26	5783
55	Giya Kancheli	43	12402
56	Alfred Schnittke	29	21174
57	Michael Gordon	16	6436
58	Oliver Knussen	18	1385
59	Henryk Górecki	34	39692
60	Ensemble Modern	19	7875
61	John Luther Adams	16	15912
62	Ferruccio Busoni	40	7514
63	Boston Modern Orchestra Project	17	2626
64	Ned Rorem	18	1592
65	Esa-Pekka Salonen	48	13107
66	Julius Eastman	22	15292
67	Sabine Liebner	19	946
68	Morten Lauridsen	38	19155
69	Jennifer Higdon	15	4976
70	Giacinto Scelsi	13	7951
71	Osvaldo Golijov	19	6088
72	Charles Koechlin	33	2160
73	Ensemble Musikfabrik	10	1254
74	Anna Thorvaldsdottir	15	6892
75	John Corigliano	32	4513
76	Alberto Ginastera	29	12083
77	Malcolm Arnold	28	4263
78	Stephen Paulus	28	1160
79	Per Nørgård	11	3339
80	Michael Finnissy	39	1364
81	Mieczysław Weinberg	26	6003
82	David Maslanka	21	6039
83	Alan Hovhaness	20	5668
84	William Bolcom	20	2401
85	André Jolivet	23	1266
86	William Duckworth	16	1157
87	Grażyna Bacewicz	19	3286
88	Henri Dutilleux	19	6537
89	Peter Sculthorpe	38	1888
90	Arnold Bax	14	2404
91	Peter Maxwell Davies	24	3324
92	Einojuhani Rautavaara	22	9625
93	Judith Weir	14	1173
94	Luigi Dallapiccola	12	1640
95	Jake Heggie	15	1180
96	Knut Nystedt	14	940
97	Jonathan Harvey	10	2148
98	Anders Hillborg	10	1181
99	Lukas Foss	11	921
100	Marjan Mozetich	12	1838

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