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Classical Records

Recordings that are a definitive version of their works

The Greatest Composers

Ranked by a combination of personal preference and musical influence

  1. Johann Sebastian Bach (German, 1685-1750)
  2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Austrian, 1756-1791)
  3. Richard Wagner (German, 1813-1883)
  4. Maurice Ravel (French, 1875-1937)
  5. Ludwig van Beethoven (German, 1770-1827)
  6. Igor Stravinsky (Russian, 1882-1971)
  7. Arnold Schoenberg (Austrian, 1874-1951)
  8. Franz Liszt (Hungarian, 1811-1886)
  9. Béla Bartók (Hungarian, 1881-1945)
  10. Franz Schubert (Austrian, 1797-1828)
  11. Giuseppe Verdi (Italian, 1813-1901)
  12. Richard Strauss (German, 1864-1949)
  13. Claude Debussy (French, 1862-1918)
  14. Dmitri Shostakovich (Russian, 1906-1975)
  15. György Ligeti (Hungarian, 1923-2006)
  16. Felix Mendelssohn (German, 1809-1847)
  17. Paul Hindemith (German, 1895-1963)
  18. Claudio Monteverdi (Italian, 1567-1643)
  19. Gustav Mahler (Austrian, 1860-1911)
  20. Philip Glass (American, 1937-)
  21. César Franck (Belgian, 1822-1890)
  22. Antonín Dvořák (Czech, 1841-1904)
  23. Frédéric Chopin (Polish, 1810-1849)
  24. Sergei Prokofiev (Russian, 1891-1953)
  25. Olivier Messiaen (French, 1908-1992)
  26. Alban Berg (Austrian, 1885-1935)
  27. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian, 1840-1893)
  28. Gabriel Fauré (French, 1845-1924)
  29. Alexander Scriabin (Russian, 1872-1915)
  30. Arvo Pärt (Estonian, 1935-)
  31. Federico Mompou (Catalan, 1893-1987)
  32. Josquin des Prez (French, 1450-1521)
  33. Benjamin Britten (English, 1913-1976)
  34. Robert Schumann (German, 1810-1856)
  35. Johannes Brahms (German, 1833-1897)
  36. Allan Pettersson (Swedish, 1911-1980)
  37. George Frideric Handel (German, 1685-1759)
  38. Giacomo Puccini (Italian, 1858-1924)
  39. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (Russian, 1844-1908)
  40. Charles Ives (American, 1874-1954)
  41. Leoš Janáček (Czech, 1854-1928)
  42. Jean Sibelius (Finnish, 1865-1957)
  43. Isaac Albéniz (Spanish, 1860-1909)
  44. Franz Joseph Haydn (Austrian, 1732-1809)
  45. Francisco Tárrega (Spanish, 1852-1909)
  46. Hector Berlioz (French, 1803-1869)
  47. Gaetano Donizetti (Italian, 1797-1848)
  48. Gioachino Rossini (Italian, 1792-1868)
  49. Christoph Willibald Gluck (German, 1714-1787)
  50. Sergei Rachmaninoff (Russian, 1873-1943)
  51. Aram Khachaturian (Armenian, 1903-1978)
  52. Alexander Borodin (Russian, 1833-1887)
  53. Erik Satie (French, 1866-1925)
  54. Anton Bruckner (Austrian, 1824-1896)
  55. Modest Mussorgsky (Russian, 1839-1881)
  56. Georges Bizet (French, 1838-1875)
  57. Ralph Vaughan Williams (English, 1872-1958)
  58. Vincenzo Bellini (Italian, 1801-1835)

Conductors

  1. Wilhelm Furtwängler (German, 1886-1954)
  2. Sergiu Celibidache (Romanian, 1912-1996)
  3. Carlos Kleiber (German, 1930-2004)
  4. Arturo Toscanini (Italian, 1867-1957)
  5. Georg Solti (Hungarian, 1912-1977)
  6. Otto Klemperer (German, 1885-1973)
  7. André Previn (American, 1929-2019)
  8. Rafael Kubelik (Czech, 1914-1996)
  9. Seiji Ozawa (Japanese, 1935-)
  10. Leonard Bernstein (American, 1918-1990)
  11. Daniel Barenboim (Israeli, 1942-)

Pianists

  1. Sviatoslav Richter (Russian, 1915-1997)
  2. Glenn Gould (Canadian, 1932-1982)
  3. Vladimir Horowitz (Russian, 1903-1989)
  4. Martha Argerich (Argentine, 1941-)
  5. Krystian Zimerman (Polish, 1956-)
  6. Mitsuko Uchida (Japanese, 1948-)
  7. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Italian, 1920-1995)