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| Rank | Topic | Wikipedia views Oct 21 2010 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ludwig van Beethoven (1770â1827) | 27513 |
| 2 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756â1791) | 22457 |
| 3 | Johann Sebastian Bach (1685â1750) | 18251 |
| 4 | A. R. Rahman (born 1966) | 10314 |
| 5 | Frank Zappa (1940â1993) | 9466 |
| 6 | Richard Wagner (1813â1883) | 8407 |
| 7 | Antonio Vivaldi (1678â1741) | 6993 |
| 8 | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840â1893) | 6728 |
| 9 | Igor Stravinsky (1882â1971) | 6288 |
| 10 | Hans Zimmer (born 1957) | 6170 |
| 11 | John Williams (born 1932) | 5999 |
| 12 | George Frideric Handel (1685â1759) | 5879 |
| 13 | Joseph Haydn (1732â1809) | 5140 |
| 14 | Giuseppe Verdi (1813â1901) | 5003 |
| 15 | Claude Debussy (1862â1918) | 4942 |
| 16 | Franz Schubert (1797â1828) | 4784 |
| 17 | Franz Liszt (1811â1886) | 4603 |
| 18 | Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873â1943) | 4511 |
| 19 | Andrew Lloyd Webber (born 1948) | 4505 |
| 20 | John Cage (1912â1992) | 4400 |
| 21 | Desi Arnaz (1917â1986) | 4356 |
| 22 | Johannes Brahms (1833â1897) | 4344 |
| 23 | Danny Elfman (born 1953) | 4262 |
| 24 | George Gershwin (1898â1937) | 4201 |
| 25 | Gustav Mahler (1860â1911) | 3996 |
| 26 | Vincenzo Bellini (1801â1835) | 3731 |
| 27 | Robert Schumann (1810â1856) | 3558 |
| 28 | Felix Mendelssohn (1809â1847) | 3547 |
| 29 | Hildegard of Bingen (1098â1179) | 3400 |
| 30 | Stephen Sondheim (born 1930) | 3327 |
| 31 | Carole King (born 1942) | 3271 |
| 32 | David Foster (born 1949) | 3093 |
| 33 | Yanni (born 1954) | 2979 |
| 34 | Dmitri Shostakovich (1906â1975) | 2973 |
| 35 | Thelonious Monk (1917â1982) | 2948 |
| 36 | Ennio Morricone (born 1928) | 2941 |
| 37 | Leonard Bernstein (1918â1990) | 2853 |
| 38 | Philip Glass (born 1937) | 2781 |
| 39 | Jean Michel Jarre (born 1948) | 2695 |
| 40 | Maurice Ravel (1875â1937) | 2681 |
| 41 | Cole Porter (1891â1964) | 2605 |
| 42 | Jackie Gleason (1916â1987) | 2592 |
| 43 | Giacomo Puccini (1858â1924) | 2574 |
| 44 | Mike Oldfield (born 1953) | 2530 |
| 45 | Richard Strauss (1864â1949) | 2518 |
| 46 | Sergei Prokofiev (1891â1953) | 2478 |
| 47 | Arnold Schoenberg (1874â1951) | 2311 |
| 48 | Graham Chapman (1941â1989) | 2301 |
| 49 | Gioachino Rossini (1792â1868) | 2282 |
| 50 | Yuvan Shankar Raja (born 1979) | 2242 |
| 51 | Edvard Grieg (1843â1907) | 2141 |
| 52 | Hector Berlioz (1803â1869) | 2123 |
| 53 | Antonio Salieri (1750â1825) | 2110 |
| 54 | Aaron Copland (1900â1990) | 2100 |
| 55 | Johann Pachelbel (1653â1706) | 2088 |
| 56 | Burt Bacharach (born 1928) | 2082 |
| 57 | Scott Joplin (c. 1868â1917) | 2073 |
| 58 | Henry Purcell (1659â1695) | 1959 |
| 59 | Gil Scott-Heron (born 1949) | 1935 |
| 60 | Erik Satie (1866â1925) | 1927 |
| 61 | Irving Berlin (1888â1989) | 1914 |
| 62 | Glenn Gould (1932â1982) | 1895 |
| 63 | Johann Strauss II (1825â1899) | 1884 |
| 64 | Benjamin Britten (1913â1976) | 1880 |
| 65 | Edward Elgar (1857â1934) | 1862 |
| 66 | Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872â1958) | 1835 |
| 67 | Claudio Monteverdi (1567â1643) | 1810 |
| 68 | Theodor W. Adorno (1903â1969) | 1800 |
| 69 | Count Basie (1904â1984) | 1724 |
| 70 | Dwight Yoakam (born 1956) | 1718 |
| 71 | John Philip Sousa (1854â1932) | 1664 |
| 72 | Harris Jayaraj (born 1975) | 1659 |
| 73 | James Horner (born 1953) | 1598 |
| 74 | Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844â1908) | 1583 |
| 75 | Samuel Barber (1910â1981) | 1582 |
| 76 | Jean Sibelius (1865â1957) | 1552 |
| 77 | Modest Mussorgsky (1839â1881) | 1437 |
| 78 | Jacques Brel (1929â1978) | 1431 |
| 79 | Georges Bizet (1838â1875) | 1408 |
| 80 | Carl Orff (1895â1982) | 1404 |
| 81 | Laurie Anderson (born 1947) | 1371 |
| 82 | Gustav Holst (1874â1934) | 1359 |
| 83 | Olivier Messiaen (1908â1992) | 1356 |
| 84 | Henry Mancini (1924â1994) | 1336 |
| 85 | Chet Atkins (1924â2001) | 1330 |
| 86 | Ryuichi Sakamoto (born 1952) | 1326 |
| 87 | Daniel Lanois (born 1951) | 1321 |
| 88 | John Zorn (born 1953) | 1295 |
| 89 | Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525â1594) | 1293 |
| 90 | Steve Reich (born 1936) | 1275 |
| 91 | Jelly Roll Morton (1890â1941) | 1236 |
| 92 | Giorgio Moroder (born 1940) | 1219 |
| 93 | Richard Rodgers (1902â1979) | 1215 |
| 94 | Josquin des Prez (c. 1450/1455â1521) | 1191 |
| 95 | Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928â2007) | 1178 |
| 96 | Carl Maria von Weber (1786â1826) | 1169 |
| 97 | Nobuo Uematsu (born 1959) | 1159 |
| 98 | John Tesh (born 1952) | 1151 |
| 99 | Stephen Foster (1826â1864) | 1125 |
| 100 | William Herschel (1738â1822) | 1115 |
| 101 | Yoko Kanno (born 1964) | 1098 |
| 102 | Marvin Hamlisch (born 1944) | 1061 |
| 103 | Alexander Scriabin (1872â1915) | 1048 |
| 104 | Gaetano Donizetti (1797â1848) | 1043 |
| 105 | Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632â1687) | 1041 |
| 106 | Hoagy Carmichael (1899â1981) | 1011 |
| 107 | William Byrd (c. 1540â1623) | 997 |
| 108 | Georg Philipp Telemann (1681â1767) | 994 |
| 109 | Anton Bruckner (1824â1896) | 984 |
| 110 | Domenico Scarlatti (1685â1757) | 983 |
| 111 | Kurt Weill (1900â1950) | 966 |
| 112 | Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683â1764) | 957 |
| 113 | Paul Hindemith (1895â1963) | 947 |
| 114 | Thomas Tallis (c. 1505â1585) | 945 |
| 115 | Michael Giacchino (born 1967) | 931 |
| 116 | W. C. Handy (1873â1958) | 916 |
| 117 | Aram Khachaturian (1903â1978) | 907 |
| 118 | Charles Ives (1874â1954) | 883 |
| 119 | Steve Morse (born 1954) | 873 |
| 120 | Jim Steinman (born 1948) | 864 |
| 121 | Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (1640â1705) | 856 |
| 122 | Clara Schumann (1819â1896) | 846 |
| 123 | Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714â1787) | 845 |
| 124 | Arcangelo Corelli (1653â1713) | 834 |
| 125 | Johnny Rivers (born 1942) | 833 |
| 126 | John Adams (born 1947) | 830 |
| 127 | Bernard Herrmann (1911â1975) | 821 |
| 128 | Muzio Clementi (1752â1832) | 820 |
| 129 | Jacques Offenbach (1819â1880) | 810 |
| 130 | George M. Cohan (1878â1942) | 808 |
| 131 | Pierre Boulez (born 1925) | 798 |
| 132 | Bix Beiderbecke (1903â1931) | 793 |
| 133 | Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300â1377) | 789 |
| 134 | Joe Hisaishi (born 1950) | 786 |
| 135 | Michael Nyman (born 1944) | 766 |
| 136 | Charles Gounod (1818â1893) | 754 |
| 137 | Francis Poulenc (1899â1963) | 745 |
| 138 | Alexander Borodin (1833â1887) | 743 |
| 139 | Caetano Veloso (born 1942) | 739 |
| 140 | Percy Grainger (1882â1961) | 738 |
| 141 | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714â1788) | 737 |
| 142 | Anton Webern (1883â1945) | 736 |
| 143 | Albert Hammond (born 1942) | 732 |
| 144 | Alban Berg (1885â1935) | 717 |
| 145 | Engelbert Humperdinck (1854â1921) | 713 |
| 146 | John Rutter (born 1945) | 711 |
| 147 | Carlos Gardel (1887â1935) | 702 |
| 148 | Tomaso Albinoni (1671â1751) | 702 |
| 149 | Krzysztof Penderecki (born 1933) | 691 |
| 150 | Terry Riley (born 1935) | 691 |
| 151 | Harry Gregson-Williams (born 1961) | 690 |
| 152 | Jimmy Webb (born 1946) | 685 |
| 153 | Jules Massenet (1842â1912) | 677 |
| 154 | Koji Kondo (born 1960) | 673 |
| 155 | Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887â1959) | 673 |
| 156 | Martin O'Donnell (born 1955) | 663 |
| 157 | Leopold Mozart (1719â1787) | 659 |
| 158 | Lalo Schifrin (born 1932) | 659 |
| 159 | John Dowland (1563â1626) | 648 |
| 160 | Iannis Xenakis (1922â2001) | 641 |
| 161 | Guillaume Dufay (Du Fay) (1397â1474) | 617 |
| 162 | Allen Toussaint born 1938) | 604 |
| 163 | Gian Carlo Menotti (1911â2007) | 602 |
| 164 | Karl Jenkins (born 1944) | 595 |
| 165 | Manuel de Falla (1876â1946) | 592 |
| 166 | Nile Rodgers (born 1952) | 588 |
| 167 | Alessandro Scarlatti (1660â1725) | 570 |
| 168 | Ivor Novello (1893â1951) | 561 |
| 169 | Alfonso X of Castile (1221â1284) | 561 |
| 170 | Klaus Schulze (born 1947) | 561 |
| 171 | Charles Wesley (1707â1788) | 557 |
| 172 | Johann Christian Bach (1735â1782) | 553 |
| 173 | La Monte Young (born 1935) | 553 |
| 174 | William Walton (1902â1983) | 539 |
| 175 | Johann Strauss I (1804â1849) | 535 |
| 176 | Alexander Godunov (1949â1995) | 519 |
| 177 | Darius Milhaud (1892â1974) | 517 |
| 178 | Luigi Boccherini (1743â1805) | 511 |
| 179 | Mikhail Glinka (1804â1857) | 510 |
| 180 | Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1557â1612) | 506 |
| 181 | Steve Jablonsky (born 1970) | 498 |
| 182 | Arthur Sullivan (1842â1900) | 479 |
| 183 | Doc Severinsen (born 1927) | 479 |
| 184 | Jan Hammer (born 1948) | 477 |
| 185 | Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860â1941) | 474 |
| 186 | John Tavener (born 1944) | 472 |
| 187 | Fritz Kreisler (1875â1962) | 471 |
| 188 | Orlande de Lassus (c. 1532â1594) | 470 |
| 189 | Arjen Anthony Lucassen (born 1960) | 469 |
| 190 | Ferruccio Busoni (1866â1924) | 468 |
| 191 | Elmer Bernstein (born 1922) | 463 |
| 192 | Carlo Gesualdo (1566â1613) | 461 |
| 193 | Mikis Theodorakis (born 1925) | 461 |
| 194 | Luciano Berio (1925â2003) | 458 |
| 195 | Alfred Schnittke (1934â1998) | 457 |
| 196 | Harry Partch (1901â1974) | 451 |
| 197 | Ottorino Respighi (1879â1936) | 449 |
| 198 | Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710â1736) | 440 |
| 199 | Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791â1864) | 439 |
| 200 | Nadia Boulanger (1887â1979) | 433 |
| 201 | Elliott Carter (born 1908) | 433 |
| 202 | George Enescu (1881â1955) | 432 |
| 203 | Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778â1837) | 427 |
| 204 | Henry Cowell (1897â1965) | 422 |
| 205 | Morton Feldman (1926â1987) | 422 |
| 206 | Oscar Levant (1906â1972) | 422 |
| 207 | Max Bruch (1838â1920) | 418 |
| 208 | Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813â1888) | 416 |
| 209 | Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor (1608â1657) | 413 |
| 210 | Paul Dukas (1865â1935) | 406 |
| 211 | Carl Nielsen (1865â1931) | 403 |
| 212 | Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897â1957) | 401 |
| 213 | Pablo de Sarasate (1844â1908) | 396 |
| 214 | Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410/1425â1497) | 396 |
| 215 | Carl Czerny (1791â1857) | 393 |
| 216 | Dieterich Buxtehude (1637â1707) | 386 |
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