Classical and more

This page will show people who are interested in classical music where to start listening...

• see this last.fm account for one result

Contents 1 last.fm 1.1 results 2 background info 3 see also 3.1 external 3.2 internal wiki

last.fm

Here's a comparison for some last.fm groups:

last.fm group	members
Classical	6043
Conductors	67
20th Century Classical	1230
Baroque	1133
Mozart	765
sum:	9238

results

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  first 5 groups have 38 characteristic artists (from 113 artists)

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  first 7 groups have 42 artists (from 283 artists)

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  first 11 groups have 75 artists (from 493 artists)

the top10 characteristic artists from the first 5 groups are:

artist name	last.fm page	Wikipedia article	plays on last.fm	listeners on last.fm	average play per listener	my plays on last.fm
Ludwig van Beethoven	Ludwig van Beethoven		18,845,951	1,303,835	14.5	27
Johannes Brahms	Johannes Brahms		4,291,670	537,793	8.0	5
Johann Sebastian Bach	Johann Sebastian Bach		22,903,115	948,415	24.1	51
Franz Schubert	Franz Schubert		4,407,493	571,797	7.7	9
Antonín Dvořák	Antonín Dvořák		3,461,709	457,619	7.6	49
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart		22,368,797	1,032,271	21.7	28
Sergei Rachmaninoff	Sergei Rachmaninoff		3,904,435	403,386	9.7	164
Georg Friedrich Händel	Georg Friedrich Händel		5,305,454	530,078	10.0	25
Franz Liszt	Franz Liszt		2,962,465	421,641	7.0	12
Franz Joseph Haydn	Franz Joseph Haydn		3,554,184	440,234	8.1	6

so, let's add the next 2 groups, which adds these artists to the top:

• Asian Classical Music (15 members)
• Japanese composers (390 members)

artist name	last.fm page	Wikipedia article	plays on last.fm	listeners on last.fm	average play per listener	my plays on last.fm
Glenn Gould	Glenn Gould		6,881,348	171,128	40.2
Edvard Grieg	Edvard Grieg		3,789,771	468,404	8.1	166
Antonio Vivaldi	Antonio Vivaldi		11,689,368	731,590	16.0	96

and now let's mix this with some instruments (cello, harpsichord, piano) from the next 4 groups...

• Classical cello = <3 (113 members)
• Harpsichord Music (106 members)
• Piano (1556 members)
• Piano Players (450 members)

which adds 6 more to the top:

artist name	last.fm page	Wikipedia article	plays on last.fm	listeners on last.fm	average play per listener	my plays on last.fm
Maurice Ravel	Maurice Ravel		2,296,026	359,096	6.4	66
Erik Satie	Erik Satie		7,428,775	433,029	17.2	14
Claude Debussy	Claude Debussy		6,225,996	540,047	11.5	67
Robert Schumann	Robert Schumann		2,380,718	359,695	6.6	120
Felix Mendelssohn	Felix Mendelssohn		2,832,570	431,566	6.6	11
Dmitri Shostakovich	Dmitri Shostakovich		2,447,222	317,319	7.7	114

background info

• I'll add more last.fm groups in the future + merge the results...
  • please suggest some groups which will fit into this analysis, thx
  • and yes... it's clear that different selection of groups at begin will generate slightly different artists, therefore have patience
• I'm using this last.fm tool for generating: group artist matcher
• this is part of the series: Group artist matcher

see also

external

• comment (at last.fm group: Classical)

internal wiki

• category: Music
• category: Last.fm