Saturday, March 14, 2009

The Symphonists


Based on CDs and other media containing symphonies at ArkivMusic.com, I have identified the symphonists from among all classical music composers.

The Master

Beethoven (846)

The Major Symphonists

Mahler (540)
Mozart (540)
Bruckner (420)
Haydn (412)
Brahms (390)
Tchaikovsky (368)
Shostakovich (344)
Dvorak (290)
Schubert (284)

Other Symphonists

Sibelius (158)
Schumann (124)
Prokofiev (124)
Mendelssohn (118)
Vaughan Williams (100)
Nielsen (84)
Berlioz (75)
Rachmaninov (51)

Minor Symphonists

Saint-Saens (31)
Franck (31)
Elgar (30)
Stravinsky (24)
Ives (24)
Britten (21)
Hindemith (20)
Honegger (20)
Bernstein (15)
Rimsky-Korsakov (12)

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