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The 50 most-read baroque artists worldwide, by Wikipedia readership in August 2026. Movement compares against July 2026.
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202 artists are ranked in baroque. The biggest move was Il Pomo d’Oro, up 20 places.
| # | Artist | Readers | 30d |
|---|---|---|---|
01 | Johann Sebastian BachEisenach · Germany | 60,056 | 0 |
02 | Glenn GouldToronto · Canada | 15,770 | 0 |
03 | IgorrrFrance | 11,279 | 0 |
04 | Henry PurcellWestminster · United Kingdom | 9,003 | 0 |
05 | Jean‐Baptiste LullyFirenze · Italy | 5,764 | +1 |
06 | Carl Philipp Emanuel BachWeimar · Germany | 5,653 | -1 |
07 | Domenico ScarlattiNapoli · Italy | 5,327 | 0 |
08 | Jean‐Philippe RameauDijon · France | 4,852 | +1 |
09 | Georg Philipp TelemannMagdeburg · Germany | 4,671 | -1 |
10 | Jakub Józef OrlińskiWarsaw · Poland | 4,413 | 0 |
11 | Tomaso Giovanni AlbinoniVenezia · Italy | 3,303 | +1 |
12 | Arcangelo CorelliFusignano · Italy | 3,187 | -1 |
13 | Giovanni Battista PergolesiIesi · Italy | 2,762 | 0 |
14 | Giuseppe TartiniPiran/Pirano · Slovenia | 2,753 | 0 |
15 | François CouperinParis · France | 2,586 | 0 |
16 | Gregorio AllegriRoma · Italy | 2,339 | +2 |
17 | Jan Dismas ZelenkaBenešov · Czechia | 2,324 | +2 |
18 | Orlando GibbonsOxford · United Kingdom | 2,318 | -2 |
19 | Animat IbragimovaRespublika Dagestan · Russia | 2,264 | +5 |
20 | Alessandro ScarlattiPalermo · Italy | 1,870 | -3 |
21 | Marin MaraisParis · France | 1,624 | 0 |
22 | Heinrich SchützBad Köstritz · Germany | 1,567 | -2 |
23 | Girolamo FrescobaldiFerrara · Italy | 1,464 | -1 |
24 | Thomas DunfordParis · France | 1,131 | -1 |
25 | Thomas MorleyNorwich · United Kingdom | 1,060 | +3 |
26 | Baldassare GaluppiVenezia · Italy | 997 | +4 |
27 | Jean‐Marie LeclairLyon · France | 987 | 0 |
28 | Scott RossPittsburgh · United States | 950 | +10 |
29 | Roderick WilliamsLondon · United Kingdom | 949 | -4 |
30 | Johann Joachim QuantzScheden · Germany | 823 | +1 |
31 | Thomas CampionLondon · United Kingdom | 799 | +3 |
32 | Christoph GraupnerKirchberg · Germany | 778 | +3 |
33 | William ChristieBuffalo · United States | 773 | -7 |
34 | Alessandro MarcelloVenezia · Italy | 771 | -1 |
35 | Francesca CacciniFirenze · Italy | 769 | -3 |
36 | Padre Antonio SolerOlot · Spain | 744 | +4 |
37 | Cristóbal de MoralesSevilla · Spain | 727 | 0 |
38 | Il Pomo d’Oro— | 690 | +20 |
39 | John BlowNottinghamshire · United Kingdom | 688 | 0 |
40 | Sir Roger NorringtonOxford · United Kingdom | 683 | +5 |
41 | Cameron CarpenterPennsylvania · United States | 671 | -12 |
42 | Jean‐Joseph MouretAvignon · France | 579 | -1 |
43 | Martha GoldsteinBaltimore · United States | 560 | +1 |
44 | William CroftWarwickshire · United Kingdom | 530 | +3 |
45 | Maxim EmelyanychevDzerzhinsk · Russia | 528 | +3 |
46 | Hans Leo HasslerNürnberg · Germany | 521 | +9 |
47 | De Nederlandse BachverenigingNetherlands | 517 | +2 |
48 | Thomas D’UrfeyDevon · United Kingdom | 513 | -2 |
49 | Johannes Hieronymus KapsbergerItaly | 502 | +3 |
50 | 鈴木雅明Kobe · Japan | 499 | +3 |
120 | Annar FollesøNorway | 101 | +64 |
137 | Mildred ClaryParis · France | 77 | +48 |
143 | Sabine BauerGermany | 73 | +44 |
93 | B’Rock OrchestraGhent · Belgium | 160 | +41 |
155 | Chœur de Chambre de NamurNamur · Belgium | 57 | +39 |
How this is ranked. Artists are matched from the MusicBrainz database by genre and by the area they are based in. An artist appears in a genre when at least 15% of their genre votes are for it. Position is set by readership of their English Wikipedia article in August 2026; movement compares that against July 2026. Readership measures public attention, not streams or sales.