Just for fun, I decided to invent a fictional line of "Classical Kings," composer kings of the classical music world throughout history. For this, I used the rankings of legacies from my post Composers, Revisited. For each year, the composer who is highest on the rankings and who was alive and at least 18 years old is considered the king for that year. (A little computer program made this task a lot easier...)
Over a period of 300 years, the classical music world has seen 20 kings. Johann Sebastian Bach, who "ruled" for 48 years, is the King of Kings!
1677: Purcell -------------------
1696: Vivaldi -------
1703: Bach ------------------------------------------------
1751: Handel ---------
1760: Haydn --------------
1774: Mozart ------------------
1792: Beethoven ------------------------------------
1828: Schubert -
1829: Schumann --
1831: Verdi --------------------
1851: Brahms -----------------------------------------------
1898: Verdi ----
1902: Debussy -----------------
1919: Puccini ------
1925: Ravel -------------
1938: Rachmaninov ------
1944: Strauss ------
1950: Prokofiev ----
1954: Shostakovich ----------------------
1976: Britten -
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