bachtrack The largest site for classical music, opera and dance In 2019 bachtrack.com listed 34,648 performances Classical Music in 2019 20,535 10,016 4,097 The year in statistics
CONCERT OPERA DANCE TOP concert composers TOP 10 concert pieces Verdi, Puccini + Mozart Anniversaries 1 Beethoven opera performed as % of 2 Mozart 1 Beethoven: Symphony no. 3 total Hector Berlioz 3 J.S. Bach xw“Eroica” (rose from position 4 Brahms 2 Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto 2017 41 to 31) 34 5 Schubert 3 Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 5 2018 33 2019 6 Tchaikovsky 4 Vivaldi: Four Seasons 32 7 Schumann 5 Handel: Messiah 31 Clara Schumann 8 Haydn 6 Mussorgsky: Pictures at an 30 (rose from position 29 94 to 44) 9 Chopin xwExhibition 28 10 Mendelssohn 7 Brahms: Symphony no. 1 8 Brahms: Symphony no. 2 9 Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique TOP 3 opera composers Jacques Offenbach 10 Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto 1 Verdi (rose from position 2 Puccini 112 to 74) Over 13% of all classical concerts 3 Mozart feature a work by Beethoven. bachtrack The largest site for classical music, opera Contemporary women composers ranked against male counterparts and dance
Cecilia McDowall Jennifer Higdon =19 Cecilia McDowall 110 21 Jennifer Higdon 22 Sofia Gubaidulina 19 21 26 82.5 30 31 WOMEN IN =24 Judith Weir 34 =24 Kaija Saariaho 28 Sally Beamish 47 30 Anna Clyne 55 MUSIC 33 Lera Auerbach 40 Cheryl Frances-Hoad 27.5 =42 Roxanna Panufnik =42 Anna Þorvaldsdóttir 113 46 Unsuk Chin 0 50 Anna Meredith 2016 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 Lyburn Jennifer Higdon © JD Scott =21 JoAnn Falletta 25 Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla In 2016 there were 7 women in the top 28 Marin Alsop 50 contemporary composers. Now =37 Nathalie Stutzmann there are 13 in the top 50 and 24 in 43 Elim Chan the top 100. 66 Karina Canellakis 82 Simone Young Susanna Mälkki © Simon Fowler, JoAnn Falletta © Heather Bellini, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla © CAMI Susanna Mälkki © Simon Fowler bachtrack The largest site for classical music, opera Percentage of concerts which include and dance Top 10 contemporary works by country contemporary 26% composers John Williams 2018 2019 Arvo Pärt Music of 20% James MacMillan Philip Glass Today and 13% John Adams György Kurtág Eric Whitacre Yesterday 7% John Rutter Thomas Adès Steve Reich
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Percentage of works played by period, by country
Japan Austria Netherlands Sweden USA Germany Over 24% of concerts in USA Switzerland France now contain pieces by living Spain composers versus 9% in UK Austria and Japan. 25% 50% 75% 100% Early + Baroque Classical Romantic 20 Century Contemporary bachtrack The largest site for classical music, opera and dance Flexible opera STARs © Andrew Eccles © Carsten Sander
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1. Aida: The Met 1. Falstaff, Staatsoper Berlin 2. Maddalena de Coigny (Andrea 2. Mandryka (Arabella) Théâtre des Chénier) Royal Opera Champs-Élysées, Bayerische 3. Imogene (Il pirata) Opéra National Staatsoper de Paris* 3. Hans Sachs (Die Meistersinger 4. Manon Lescaut: Deutsche Oper, von Nürnberg) Bayreuth Edinburgh 4. Orest (Elektra) Alte Oper 5. Rusalka: Canadian Opera Frankfurt, Konzerthaus Dortmund 6. Luisa (Luisa Miller) Gran Teatre 5. Herr Fluth (Merry Wives of del Liceu Windsor) Staatsoper Berlin 7. Elisabetta (Roberto Devereux) 6. Nabucco: Opernhaus Zürich Bayerische Staatsoper 7. Jochanaan (Salome) Deutsche 8. Tosca: Wiener Staatsoper, Oper Deutsche Oper 8. High Priest of Dagon (Samson et Dalila) Staatsoper Berlin *Il pirata in Paris was cancelled due to strikes, 9. Wotan (Das Rheingold) The Met but has been included since the singers will 10.Wotan (Die Walküre) The Met have fully prepared their roles. 29% of opera productions in 11. Der Wanderer (Siegfried) The Met Austria were new in 2019. bachtrack The largest site for classical music, opera Orchestras Concert conductors and dance 1 Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie 1 Andris Nelsons 2 Berliner Philharmoniker 2 Valery Gergiev 3 Boston Symphony Orchestra 3 Paavo Järvi 4 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 4 Jakub Hrůša 5 Chicago Symphony Orchestra 5 Jaap van Zweden Busiest =6 New York Philharmonic Orchestra =6 François-Xavier Roth =6 Wiener Philharmoniker =6 Yannick Nézet-Séguin =8 Orchestra dell'Accademia =8 Herbert Blomstedt Performers wxxNazionale di Santa Cecilia =8 Daniel Harding =8 Wiener Symphoniker 10 Semyon Bychkov
=10 Philharmonia Orchestra © Marco Borggreve =10 Philadelphia Orchestra
Pianists Violinists Cellists Yuja Wang Leonidas Kavakos Gautier Capuçon Jan Lisiecki Joshua Bell Truls Mørk Emanuel Ax Isabelle Faust Kian Soltani Daniil Trifonov Renaud Capuçon Nicolas Altstaedt Rudolf Buchbinder Augustin Hadelich Johannes Moser Sir András Schiff James Ehnes István Várdai Dénes Várjon Frank Peter Zimmermann Jean-Guihen Queyras Yefim Bronfman Vilde Frang Alisa Weilerstein Leif Ove Andsnes Leila Josefowicz Sheku Kanneh-Mason Kirill Gerstein Pekka Kuusisto Steven Isserlis Igor Levit Jean-Yves Thibaudet The busiest performer in 2019 was Andris Nelsons who conducted 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 the largest classical events finder online. Read more about the statistics at: https://bachtrack.com/classical-music-statistics-2019. © 2020 Bachtrack Ltd. All rights reserved. Iconography credits: https://www.pngguru.com.