Classical
Classical music is the written art music tradition of Europe and the wider Western world, composed for orchestras, choirs, chamber groups and solo instruments.
Works are written down in notation by a composer and performed from the score, often in long forms such as the symphony, concerto, sonata and opera. The tradition runs from medieval church music through the Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods to the present day. It is mostly played on acoustic instruments without amplification. Its reliance on a detailed written score, not improvisation or studio production, is what most separates it from jazz and popular music.
Artists it is known for: Johann Sebastian Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Ludwig van Beethoven.
- Family
- Classical & Soundtrack
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A broad heading
- From
- Europe, from the Middle Ages
- Also called
- classical music, western classical music
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 2%
About 1,800 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have classical among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Classical artists
Berliner Philharmoniker
Ludovico Einaudi
Czech Symphony Orchestra
Max Richter
Wiener Philharmoniker
Sir Simon Rattle
Itzhak Perlman
Daniel Barenboim
Joshua Kyan Aalampour
Maurizio Pollini
The classical artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.