2019 web medias retrospective
Who are the 10 artists, composers and performers most present in the web media in 2019, in the press and blogs combined? Which orchestras and venues have received the most media exposure? And the others, those who also count on the classical music stage, even if they are perhaps less mentioned?
What are the best advances compared to 2018, including perhaps the great talents to come? What are these rising performers, those who are progressing year after year?
Here are those who have made the news in classical music and opera in 2019, the most cited in articles and posts, the most popular in the writings of those who listen and review the new releases, attend performances, interview the performers, make us rediscover a little-known work, retrace a venue's history or share a composer's biography. Behind these rankings are current and future trends.
The 50 most popular alive performers and composers
including artists dead this year (2019)
| # | Artists | 2019 | 2019/18 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Daniel Barenboim |  | + 1 | ||
| 2. | Simon Rattle |  | - 1 | ||
| 3. | Mariss Jansons |  | + 21 | ||
| 4. | Martha Argerich |  | + 4 | ||
| 5. | Gustavo Dudamel |  | - 2 | ||
| 6. | Valery Gergiev |  | + 3 | ||
| 7. | Anna Netrebko |  | - 3 | ||
| 8. | Michael Tilson Thomas |  | + 4 | ||
| 9. | Martyn Brabbins | + 8 | |||
| 10. | Andris Nelsons |  | - 5 | ||
| # | Artists | 2019 | 2019/18 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11. | Robin Ticciati |  | + 7 | ||
| Jessye Norman |  | ||||
| Jaap van Zweden |  | - 2 | |||
| Arvo Pärt |  | - 8 | |||
| Philip Glass |  | - 2 | |||
| André Previn |  | ||||
| Thomas Adès |  | + 2 | |||
| James MacMillan |  | + 46 | |||
| Bernard Haitink |  | + 64 | |||
| Andrew Manze |  | + 23 | |||
| # | Artists | 2019 | 2019/18 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21. | Yuja Wang |  | + 6 | ||
| Lang Lang |  | + 30 | |||
| Anne-Sophie Mutter |  | + 83 | |||
| John Williams |  | + 62 | |||
| Andrew Davis |  | + 5 | |||
| Edward Gardner |  | + 157 | |||
| John Coolidge Adams |  | + 7 | |||
| Leif Ove Andsnes |  | + 7 | |||
| Khatia Buniatishvili |  | - 9 | |||
| Vladimir Jurowski |  | + 20 | |||
| # | Artists | 2019 | 2019/18 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31. | Yo-Yo Ma |  | = | ||
| Esa-Pekka Salonen |  | - 16 | |||
| Jonas Kaufmann |  | - 7 | |||
| Christian Gerhaher |  | + 65 | |||
| John Eliot Gardiner |  | + 7 | |||
| Santtu-Matias Rouvali |  | + 154 | |||
| Steven Isserlis |  | - 22 | |||
| Bryn Terfel |  | + 41 | |||
| Semyon Bychkov |  | + 6 | |||
| Yannick Nézet-Séguin |  | - 8 | |||
| # | Artists | 2019 | 2019/18 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41. | Nicola Benedetti |  | + 125 | ||
| Roderick Williams |  | - 9 | |||
| Joyce DiDonato |  | + 13 | |||
| Stephen Sondheim |  | + 83 | |||
| Iestyn Davies |  | + 9 | |||
| Maurizio Pollini |  | + 39 | |||
| Olga Scheps |  | ||||
| Daniel Müller-Schott | |||||
| Mark Elder | - 28 | ||||
| Rachel Barton Pine |  | + 27 | |||
Variations are appreciated regarding the previous year.
The 50 most popular composers and performers
For the greatest composers and performers below, major variations can be due to special commemorations (centenaries...). [+]
| # | Artists | 2019 | 2019/18 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ludwig van Beethoven |  | + 2 | ||
| 2. | Johann Sebastian Bach |  | - 1 | ||
| 3. | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |  | - 1 | ||
| 4. | George Frideric Handel |  | + 1 | ||
| 5. | Gustav Mahler |  | + 1 | ||
| 6. | Richard Wagner |  | + 2 | ||
| 7. | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky |  | + 6 | ||
| 8. | Benjamin Britten |  | + 4 | ||
| 9. | Johannes Brahms |  | - 2 | ||
| 10. | Franz Schubert |  | - 1 | ||
| # | Artists | 2019 | 2019/18 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11. | Dmitri Shostakovich |  | + 4 | ||
| Giuseppe Verdi |  | - 2 | |||
| Joseph Haydn |  | - 2 | |||
| Hector Berlioz |  | + 15 | |||
| Claude Debussy |  | - 11 | |||
| Sergei Rachmaninoff |  | + 1 | |||
| Frédéric Chopin |  | + 3 | |||
| Edward Elgar |  | - 2 | |||
| Jean Sibelius |  | = | |||
| Igor Stravinsky |  | - 6 | |||
| # | Artists | 2019 | 2019/18 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21. | Ralph Vaughan Williams |  | + 7 | ||
| Sergei Prokofiev |  | - 4 | |||
| Antonio Vivaldi |  | - 1 | |||
| Giacomo Puccini |  | - 3 | |||
| Arnold Schoenberg |  | - 1 | |||
| Gioachino Rossini |  | = | |||
| George Gershwin |  | - 2 | |||
| Anton Bruckner |  | + 8 | |||
| Christoph Willibald von Gluck |  | + 40 | |||
| Herbert von Karajan |  | + 8 | |||
| # | Artists | 2019 | 2019/18 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 31. | Béla Bartók |  | + 3 | ||
| Gustav Holst |  | + 5 | |||
| Olivier Messiaen |  | + 16 | |||
| Oliver Knussen |  | + 1 | |||
| Claudio Monteverdi |  | + 8 | |||
| Pierre Boulez |  | - 4 | |||
| Richard Strauss |  | - 6 | |||
| Jacques Offenbach |  | + 54 | |||
| Francis Poulenc |  | + 1 | |||
| Antonín Dvořák |  | - 1 | |||
| # | Artists | 2019 | 2019/18 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 41. | Yehudi Menuhin |  | - 18 | ||
| Gaetano Donizetti |  | - 12 | |||
| Niccolò Paganini |  | - 10 | |||
| Domenico Scarlatti |  | + 10 | |||
| Edvard Grieg |  | - 3 | |||
| Erik Satie |  | + 38 | |||
| William Grant Still |  | + 10 | |||
| Robert Schumann |  | + 11 | |||
| Clara Schumann |  | + 17 | |||
| Giovanni Gabrieli |  | + 40 | |||
An exclusive analysis based on the press articles and blog posts indexed by soClassiQ.
2015 . . . 2019
310000+ articles & posts (EN)
The 30 most popular orchestras and ensembles
including opera companies
The 30 most popular venues
Providing these rankings is hard work. Many hours were required to design and develop an approach based exclusively on a textual analysis of the indexed articles and adapted to the classical music and opera context. These rankings are not the result of personal preferences or artistic opinions.
These are the best results to date. Further improvements to the algorithm may have an impact on the rankings.
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