Classic 100 Composer

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In 2019, the Australian radio station ABC Classic FM held the seventeenth of its annual Classic Music countdowns, during which the public voted for 100 favourite composers. The Classic 100 Composer countdown was broadcast in reverse order from 7 to 9 June.

Countdown results

The results of the countdown are as follows:

Rank	Composer	Country	Lived
100	Francis Poulenc	French	1899–1963
99	Carl Orff	German	1895–1982
98	Carl Vine	Australian	1954–
97	Domenico Scarlatti	Italian	1685–1757
96	Sally Whitwell	Australian	1974–
95	Henryk Górecki	Polish	1933–2010
94	Jean-Philippe Rameau	French	1683–1764
93	Graeme Koehne	Australian	1956–
92	Erich Korngold	American	1897–1957
91	Michael Nyman	British	1944–
90	Peggy Glanville-Hicks	Australian	1912–1990
89	Jules Massenet	French	1842–1912
88	Niccolò Paganini	Italian	1782–1840
87	William Barton	Australian	1981–
86	Gregorio Allegri	Italian	1582–1652
85	John Barry	British	1933–2011
84	Ottorino Respighi	Italian	1879–1936
83	Fanny Mendelssohn	German	1805–1847
82	Palestrina	Italian	1525–1594
81	Howard Shore	Canadian	1946–
80	Max Richter	German/British	1966–
79	Arcangelo Corelli	Italian	1653–1713
78	Johann Pachelbel	German	1653–1706
77	Béla Bartók	Hungarian	1881–1945
76	William Byrd	British	1539–1623
75	Johann Strauss I	Austrian	1804–1849
74	Modest Mussorgsky	Russian	1839–1881
73	Tomaso Albinoni	Italian	1671–1751
72	Arthur Sullivan	British	1842–1900
71	Bedřich Smetana	Czech	1824–1884
70	Luigi Boccherini	Italian	1743–1805
69	Anton Bruckner	Austrian	1824–1896
68	John Rutter	British	1945–
67	Karl Jenkins	British	1944–
66	Johann Strauss II	German	1825–1899
65	Ludovico Einaudi	Italian	1955–
64	Astor Piazzolla	Argentinian	1921–1992
63	Aram Khachaturian	Armenian	1903–1978
62	Clara Schumann	German	1819–1896
61	Samuel Barber	American	1910–1981
60	Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach	German	1714–1788
59	Hans Zimmer	German	1957–
58	Percy Grainger	Australian	1882–1961
57	Hector Berlioz	French	1803–1869
56	Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov	Russian	1844–1908
55	Gioachino Rossini	Italian	1792–1868
54	Joaquín Rodrigo	Spanish	1901–1999
53	Franz Liszt	Hungarian	1811–1886
52	Thomas Tallis	British	1505–1585
51	Alexander Borodin	Russian	1833–1887
50	Benjamin Britten	British	1913–1976
49	Max Bruch	German	1838–1920
48	Georg Philipp Telemann	German	1681–1767
47	Robert Schumann	German	1810–1856
46	Igor Stravinsky	Russian	1882–1971
45	Henry Purcell	British	1659–1695
44	Claudio Monteverdi	Italian	1567–1643
43	Aaron Copland	American	1900–1990
42	Gustav Holst	British	1874–1934
41	Richard Strauss	German	1864–1949
40	Ennio Morricone	Italian	1928–
39	Gabriel Fauré	French	1845–1924
38	Leonard Bernstein	American	1922–2004
37	Erik Satie	French	1866–1925
36	Philip Glass	American	1937–
35	Richard Wagner	German	1813–1883
34	Georges Bizet	French	1838–1875
33	Hildegard von Bingen	German	1098–1179
32	Sergei Prokofiev	Russian	1891–1953
31	Nigel Westlake	Australian	1958–
30	Ross Edwards	Australian	1943–
29	Edvard Grieg	Norwegian	1843–1907
28	Maurice Ravel	French	1875–1937
27	George Gershwin	American	1898–1937
26	Arvo Pärt	Estonian	1935–
25	Joseph Haydn	Austrian	1732–1809
24	Dmitri Shostakovich	Russian	1906–1975
23	Camille Saint-Saëns	French	1835–1921
22	Claude Debussy	French	1862–1918
21	Giuseppe Verdi	Italian	1813–1901
20	Gustav Mahler	Austrian	1860–1911
19	Giacomo Puccini	Italian	1858–1924
18	Peter Sculthorpe	Australian	1929–2014
17	Jean Sibelius	Finnish	1865–1957
16	Elena Kats-Chernin	Australian	1957–
15	John Williams	American	1932–
14	Johannes Brahms	German	1833–1897
13	Antonín Dvořák	Czech	1841–1904
12	Felix Mendelssohn	German	1809–1847
11	Ralph Vaughan Williams	British	1872–1958
10	Edward Elgar	British	1857–1934
9	Sergei Rachmaninoff	Russian	1873–1943
8	Franz Schubert	Austrian	1797–1828
7	Frédéric Chopin	Polish	1810–1849
6	Antonio Vivaldi	Italian	1678–1741
5	George Frideric Handel	British	1685–1759
4	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky	Russian	1840–1893
3	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Austrian	1756–1791
2	Johann Sebastian Bach	German	1685–1750
1	Ludwig van Beethoven	German	1770–1827

See also

• Classic 100 Countdowns

Further reading

• Warden, Ian (8 June 2019). "Bogan voters forsake Beethoven". The Canberra Times.
• Nguyen, Justine (5 April 2019). "Compose yourselves for this year's ABC classic 100". Limelight.
• Bruce, Dave (4 June 2019). "ABC Classic 100 to reveal the nation's favourite composer this weekend". Amnplify.

External links

• Official website

Others articles of the Topic Classical music : List of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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