symphony artists

At a glance

378 published symphony artists; 11,780 studio albums have verified cover art.

When they started

Debut decade from each artist's earliest dated release. Most debuts fell in the 1990s (107 artists).

Where they come from

Countries with the most symphony artists. France leads with 42.

• France 42
• United States 41
• United Kingdom of the Netherlands 40
• Germany 26
• Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic 25
• Sweden 14
• Finland 13
• Austria 8

Often paired with

Genres that share artists with symphony. The most shared is opera, with 262 artists in both.

• opera 262
• classical music 68
• ballet 17
• chamber music 13
• 20th-century classical music 7
• contemporary classical music 7
• liturgical music 7
• symphonic music 7

Covers from symphony

11,780 studio albums have verified cover art. The 12 shown come from the most famous artists.

Leaders

Igor Stravinsky has the most release groups (300); Charles Gounod the longest career (120 years); Krzysztof Penderecki the most awards (51).

More symphony artists

Showing 1–108 of 108 artists

Richard Strauss

Germany · Person · born 1864

classical music, opera, symphony, sardana

93 wikis · Tier 2

Alexander Borodin

Russian Empire · Person · born 1833

classical music, opera, symphony, chamber music, romance

92 wikis · Tier 2

Anton Bruckner

Austrian Empire · Person · born 1824

classical music, symphony

92 wikis · Tier 2

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Russian Empire · Person · born 1873

classical music, opera, symphony

92 wikis · Tier 2

Leonard Bernstein

United States · Person · born 1918

classical music, opera, symphony

82 wikis · Tier 2

Aram Khachaturian

Soviet Union · Person · born 1903

concerto, art music, symphony, chamber music, ballet

80 wikis · Tier 2

Camille Saint-Saëns

France · Person · born 1835

classical music, opera, concerto, symphony

80 wikis · Tier 2

Charles Gounod

France · Person · born 1818

classical music, opera, symphony, oratorio

79 wikis · Tier 2

Edward Elgar

United Kingdom · Person · born 1857

classical music, symphony

75 wikis · Tier 2

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Germany · Person · born 1714

symphony, Baroque

73 wikis · Tier 2

Arvo Pärt

Soviet Union · Person · born 1935

contemporary classical music, symphony, religious music, minimalist music

69 wikis · Tier 2

Vincenzo Bellini

Kingdom of Sicily · Person · born 1801

opera, symphony

68 wikis · Tier 2

Benjamin Britten

United Kingdom · Person · born 1913

classical music, opera, symphony

68 wikis · Tier 2

Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

Russian Empire · Person · born 1836

symphony

67 wikis · Tier 2

Leopold Mozart

Holy Roman Empire · Person · born 1719

symphony

67 wikis · Tier 2

Johann Christian Bach

Electorate of Saxony · Person · born 1735

opera, symphony

66 wikis · Tier 2

Olivier Messiaen

France · Person · born 1908

opera, symphony

65 wikis · Tier 2

Philip Glass

United States · Person · born 1937

opera, Dixieland jazz, symphony, minimalist music

64 wikis · Tier 2

Giya Kancheli

Soviet Union · Person · born 1935

opera, symphony, stage and screen

64 wikis · Tier 2

Mikis Theodorakis

Greece · Person · born 1925

opera, vocal music, symphony, laïko, éntekhno, Sirtaki

62 wikis · Tier 2

Tomaso Albinoni

Republic of Venice · Person · born 1671

opera, symphony

61 wikis · Tier 2

Aaron Copland

United States · Person · born 1900

classical music, opera, symphony, ballet

61 wikis · Tier 2

Krzysztof Penderecki

Poland · Person · born 1933

opera, symphony

60 wikis · Tier 2

César Franck

United Kingdom of the Netherlands · Person · born 1822

classical music, opera, symphony

58 wikis · Tier 2

Arthur Honegger

Switzerland · Person · born 1892

symphony, soundtrack, string quartet, oratorio

58 wikis · Tier 2

Anton Rubinstein

Russian Empire · Person · born 1829

opera, symphony, Romanticism

58 wikis · Tier 2

Alexander Glazounov

Russian Empire · Person · born 1865

classical music, symphony

57 wikis · Tier 2

Paul Hindemith

Germany · Person · born 1895

opera, symphony

57 wikis · Tier 2

Georges Enescou

Romania · Person · born 1881

opera, symphony, chamber music, piano

54 wikis · Tier 2

Paul Dukas

France · Person · born 1865

opera, symphony, impressionist music

53 wikis · Tier 2

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Brazil · Person · born 1887

opera, symphony

53 wikis · Tier 2

Nino Rota

Kingdom of Italy · Person · born 1911

classical music, opera, symphony, 20th-century classical music

52 wikis · Tier 2

Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky

Russian Empire · Person · born 1904

classical music, opera, symphony, chamber music, 20th-century classical music, incidental music

51 wikis · Tier 2

Carl Nielsen

Kingdom of Denmark · Person · born 1865

opera, symphony

50 wikis · Tier 2

Ralph Vaughan Williams

United Kingdom · Person · born 1872

classical music, opera, symphony

50 wikis · Tier 2

Kurt Weill

Germany · Person · born 1900

opera, symphony, ballet

50 wikis · Tier 2

Samuel Barber

United States · Person · born 1910

opera, symphony

49 wikis · Tier 2

Wilhelm Furtwängler

Germany · Person · born 1886

symphony

49 wikis · Tier 2

Charles Ives

United States · Person · born 1874

symphony

48 wikis · Tier 2

Max Bruch

Germany · Person · born 1838

opera, symphony

47 wikis · Tier 2

Bohuslav Martinů

United States · Person · born 1890

classical music, opera, symphony, ballet

46 wikis · Tier 2

Darius Milhaud

France · Person · born 1892

opera, symphony, ballet

45 wikis · Tier 2

Arthur Sullivan

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · Person · born 1842

opera, symphony, ballet, song, cantata, oratorio, incidental music

45 wikis · Tier 2

Karol Szymanowski

Russian Empire · Person · born 1882

classical music, opera, symphony

45 wikis · Tier 2

Borys Liatoshynsky

Russian Empire · Person · born 1894

opera, symphony

44 wikis · Tier 2

Charles-Marie Widor

France · Person · born 1844

opera, symphony

44 wikis · Tier 2

Alfred Schnittke

Soviet Union · Person · born 1934

opera, art music, symphony, 20th-century classical music

43 wikis · Tier 2

Michael Haydn

Habsburg monarchy · Person · born 1737

opera, symphony

41 wikis · Tier 2

Rodion Shchedrin

Soviet Union · Person · born 1932

opera, symphony, ballet

41 wikis · Tier 2

Valentyn Sylvestrov

Soviet Union · Person · born 1937

contemporary classical music, symphony, piano music

40 wikis · Tier 3

Louis Spohr

Duchy of Brunswick · Person · born 1784

opera, symphony

40 wikis · Tier 2

Georgy Sviridov

Russian Empire · Person · born 1915

opera, symphonic music, symphony, choral music, choir

39 wikis · Tier 2

Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev

Russian Empire · Person · born 1856

opera, symphony

39 wikis · Tier 2

Gara Garayev

Soviet Union · Person · born 1918

opera, symphony, ballet

38 wikis · Tier 2

Reinhold Glière

Russian Empire · Person · born 1874

folk music, classical music, opera, symphony, ballet

38 wikis · Tier 2

Vincent d'Indy

France · Person · born 1851

opera, symphony

38 wikis · Tier 2

Josef Suk

Czechoslovakia · Person · born 1874

opera, symphony

38 wikis · Tier 2

Pancho Vladigerov

Bulgaria · Person · born 1899

opera, symphony

38 wikis · Tier 2

Bruno Walter

Germany · Person · born 1876

symphony

38 wikis · Tier 2

William Walton

United Kingdom · Person · born 1902

opera, symphony

38 wikis · Tier 2

Franz Berwald

Sweden · Person · born 1796

classical music, opera, symphony

37 wikis · Tier 2

Nikolai Myaskovsky

Russian Empire · Person · born 1881

classical music, symphonic music, symphony, romance

37 wikis · Tier 2

Felix von Weingartner

Austrian Empire · Person · born 1863

opera, symphony

37 wikis · Tier 2

Ernest Chausson

France · Person · born 1855

opera, symphony

36 wikis · Tier 2

Franco Alfano

Italy · Person · born 1875

opera, symphony

35 wikis · Tier 2

Ernő Dohnányi

Hungary · Person · born 1877

opera, symphony

35 wikis · Tier 2

Henri Dutilleux

France · Person · born 1916

symphony

35 wikis · Tier 2

François Joseph Gossec

France · Person · born 1734

opera, symphony

35 wikis · Tier 2

Tikhon Khrennikov

Soviet Union · Person · born 1913

opera, concerto, symphony, ballet, song, sonata, string quartet

35 wikis · Tier 2

Albert Roussel

France · Person · born 1869

opera, symphony

35 wikis · Tier 2

Giovanni Battista Sammartini

Duchy of Milan · Person · born 1700

opera, symphony, religious music, sonata

35 wikis · Tier 2

Malcolm Arnold

United Kingdom · Person · born 1921

symphony

34 wikis · Tier 2

Ernest Bloch

Switzerland · Person · born 1880

symphony

34 wikis · Tier 2

Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf

Person · born 1739

opera, symphony

34 wikis · Tier 2

Niels Gade

Kingdom of Denmark · Person · born 1817

symphony

34 wikis · Tier 2

Einojuhani Rautavaara

Finland · Person · born 1928

contemporary classical music, opera, symphony

34 wikis · Tier 2

Anton Reicha

Kingdom of Bohemia · Person · born 1770

opera, symphony

34 wikis · Tier 2

Carl Reinecke

Kingdom of Prussia · Person · born 1824

opera, symphony

34 wikis · Tier 2

Louis Vierne

France · Person · born 1870

classical music, symphony

34 wikis · Tier 2

Alexander von Zemlinsky

Austria–Hungary · Person · born 1871

opera, symphony

34 wikis · Tier 2

George Antheil

United States · Person · born 1900

opera, symphony

33 wikis · Tier 2

Alfredo Casella

Italy · Person · born 1883

opera, symphony

33 wikis · Tier 2

Peter Maxwell Davies

United Kingdom · Person · born 1934

opera, symphony

33 wikis · Tier 2

Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart

Austrian Empire · Person · born 1791

symphony

33 wikis · Tier 2

Charles Villiers Stanford

Ireland · Person · born 1852

opera, symphony

33 wikis · Tier 2

Hugo Alfvén

Sweden · Person · born 1872

symphony

32 wikis · Tier 2

Arnold Bax

United Kingdom · Person · born 1883

opera, symphony

32 wikis · Tier 2

Grażyna Bacewicz

Poland · Person · born 1909

classical music, opera, symphony

31 wikis · Tier 2

Hans Werner Henze

Germany · Person · born 1926

classical music, opera, vocal music, symphony

31 wikis · Tier 2

Hubert Parry

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · Person · born 1848

symphony

31 wikis · Tier 2

Johan Svendsen

Norway · Person · born 1840

symphony

31 wikis · Tier 2

William Boyce

Kingdom of Great Britain · Person · born 1711

symphony, ode

30 wikis · Tier 2

Alfredo Catalani

Kingdom of Italy · Person · born 1854

opera, symphony

30 wikis · Tier 2

Josef Mysliveček

Kingdom of Bohemia · Person · born 1737

classical music, opera, symphony, oratorio

30 wikis · Tier 2

Person

Morton Gould

United States · Person · born 1913

symphony

20 wikis · Tier 2

Karl Goldmark

Hungary · Person · born 1830

opera, symphony

29 wikis · Tier 3

Johan Halvorsen

Norway · Person · born 1864

symphony

29 wikis · Tier 3

Charles Koechlin

France · Person · born 1867

classical music, symphony, liturgical music

29 wikis · Tier 3

Joseph Martin Kraus

Electorate of Mainz · Person · born 1756

opera, symphony

29 wikis · Tier 3

Ignaz Pleyel

France · Person · born 1757

classical music, opera, symphony, liturgical music

29 wikis · Tier 3

Person

Franz Schmidt

Austria · Person · born 1874

opera, symphony

29 wikis · Tier 3

Peteris Vasks

Latvia · Person · born 1946

symphony

29 wikis · Tier 3

André Jolivet

France · Person · born 1905

opera, symphony

28 wikis · Tier 3

Person

Ernst Krenek

Austria · Person · born 1900

opera, symphony

28 wikis · Tier 3

Carl Loewe

Kingdom of Prussia · Person · born 1796

opera, symphony

28 wikis · Tier 3

Fredrik Pacius

Hamburg · Person · born 1809

classical music, opera, symphony, cantata, art song, Q113360774

28 wikis · Tier 3

Leif Segerstam

Finland · Person · born 1944

classical music, opera, symphony

28 wikis · Tier 3

Glenn Branca

United States · Person · born 1948

experimental music, avant-garde music, symphony, 20th-century classical music, noise music, minimalist music, no wave, totalism, sound art

27 wikis · Tier 3