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Classical
Music in 2019
The year in statistics

In 2019 bachtrack.com listed 34,648 performances

20,535

10,016

4,097

CONCERTOPERADANCETOP concert
composers
1 Beethoven
2 Mozart
3 J.S. Bach
4 Brahms
5 Schubert
6 Tchaikovsky
7 Schumann
8 Haydn
9 Chopin
10 MendelssohnOver 13% of all classical concertsfeature a work by Beethoven.

TOP 10 concert pieces
1 Beethoven: Symphony no. 3
xw“Eroica”
2 Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
3 Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 5
4 Vivaldi: Four Seasons
5 Handel: Messiah
6 Mussorgsky: Pictures at anxwExhibition
7 Brahms: Symphony no. 1
8 Brahms: Symphony no. 2
9 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique
10 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto

Verdi, Puccini + Mozart
opera performed as % oftotal
34
33
32
31
30
29
28

2017
2018
2019

TOP 3 opera composers
1 Verdi2 Puccini
3 Mozart

Anniversaries
Hector Berlioz(rose from position
41 to 31)

Clara Schumann(rose from position
94 to 44)

Jacques Offenbach(rose from position
112 to 74)

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WOMEN INMUSIC

Contemporary women composers ranked against male counterparts=19 Cecilia McDowall
21 Jennifer Higdon
22 Sofia Gubaidulina=24 Judith Weir
=24 Kaija Saariaho
28 Sally Beamish
30 Anna Clyne
33 Lera Auerbach
40 Cheryl Frances-Hoad=42 Roxanna Panufnik=42 Anna Þorvaldsdóttir
46 Unsuk Chin
50 Anna Meredith

Cecilia McDowall

110

82.5

30Jennifer Higdon

313426

19

21

47
55

27.5

11302016

2017

2018

2019

Rankings of the TOP women concert conductors
In 2013 we brought you the news that there was only ONE woman in the top
100 conductors. Now there are 8.
=21 Susanna Mälkki
Cecilia McDowall © Karina LyburnJennifer Higdon © JD Scott

In 2016 there were 7 women in the top
50 contemporary composers. Now
there are 13 in the top 50 and 24 inthe top 100.

=21 JoAnn Falletta
25 Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
28 Marin Alsop=37 Nathalie Stutzmann
43 Elim Chan
66 Karina Canellakis
82 Simone Young
Susanna Mälkki © Simon Fowler, JoAnn Falletta © Heather Bellini, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla © CAMISusanna Mälkki © Simon Fowler

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Percentage of concerts which include
contemporary works by country

Top 10contemporarycomposers

26%
2018

John Williams
Arvo Pärt

2019

20%

James MacMillan
Philip GlassJohn Adams

13%

György Kurtág
Eric Whitacre
7%

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Steve Reich

Percentage of works played by period, by country

Over 24% of concerts in USA
now contain pieces by living
composers versus 9% inAustria and Japan.

JapanAustriaNetherlands
SwedenUSA
Germany
Switzerland
FranceSpainUK
25%
Early + Baroque50%
Classical

Romantic

75%
20 Century

100%
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opera STARs© Andrew Eccles© Carsten Sander

Sondra Radvanovsky

Michael Volle

1. Aida: The Met
2. Maddalena de Coigny (AndreaChénier) Royal Opera
3. Imogene (Il pirata) Opéra Nationalde Paris*
4. Manon Lescaut: Deutsche Oper,Edinburgh
5. Rusalka: Canadian Opera
6. Luisa (Luisa Miller) Gran Teatredel Liceu
7. Elisabetta (Roberto Devereux)
Bayerische Staatsoper
8. Tosca: Wiener Staatsoper,
Deutsche Oper

29% of opera productions inAustria were new in 2019.

*Il pirata in Paris was cancelled due to strikes,
but has been included since the singers will
have fully prepared their roles.

1. Falstaff, Staatsoper Berlin
2. Mandryka (Arabella) Théâtre desChamps-Élysées, BayerischeStaatsoper
3. Hans Sachs (Die Meistersingervon Nürnberg) Bayreuth
4. Orest (Elektra) Alte OperFrankfurt, Konzerthaus Dortmund
5. Herr Fluth (Merry Wives ofWindsor) Staatsoper Berlin
6. Nabucco: Opernhaus Zürich
7. Jochanaan (Salome) DeutscheOper
8. High Priest of Dagon (Samson etDalila) Staatsoper Berlin
9. Wotan (Das Rheingold) The Met
10. Wotan (Die Walküre) The Met
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Concert conductors

1 Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie
2 Berliner Philharmoniker
3 Boston Symphony Orchestra
4 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra=6 New York Philharmonic Orchestra=6 Wiener Philharmoniker=8 Orchestra dell'Accademia
wxxNazionale di Santa Cecilia=8 Wiener Symphoniker=10 Philharmonia Orchestra=10 Philadelphia Orchestra

1 Andris Nelsons
2 Valery Gergiev
3 Paavo Järvi
4 Jakub Hrůša
5 Jaap van Zweden=6 François-Xavier Roth
=6 Yannick Nézet-Séguin
=8 Herbert Blomstedt=8 Daniel Harding
10 Semyon Bychkov© Marco Borggreve

Pianists

Violinists

Cellists

Yuja Wang
Jan Lisiecki
Emanuel AxDaniil Trifonov
Rudolf Buchbinder
Sir András Schiff
Dénes Várjon
Yefim Bronfman
Leif Ove Andsnes
Kirill Gerstein
Igor Levit
Jean-Yves Thibaudet

Leonidas Kavakos
Joshua BellIsabelle Faust
Renaud Capuçon
Augustin HadelichJames Ehnes
Frank Peter Zimmermann
Vilde Frang
Leila Josefowicz
Pekka Kuusisto

Gautier Capuçon
Truls Mørk
Kian Soltani
Nicolas Altstaedt
Johannes Moser
István Várdai
Jean-Guihen Queyras
Alisa Weilerstein
Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Steven Isserlis

The busiest performer in 2019
was Andris Nelsons whoconducted a total of 132 concert
and opera performances.
All the statistics are based on the performances which have been listed on Bachtrack for 2019. This is not an exhaustive list. We are
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