We hope you enjoyed this year's Essential Classical and Jazz Countdowns! Lists are at the bottom of this post.
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Essential Classical Composers
- No. 10: George Frideric Handel
- No. 9: Antonio Vivaldi
- No. 8: Antonin Dvorak
- No. 7: Sergei Rachmaninoff
- No. 6: Frederic Chopin
- No. 5: Johannes Brahms
- No. 4: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- No. 3: Johann Sebastian Bach
- No. 2: Ludwig van Beethoven
- No. 1: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Essential Jazz Artists
- No. 10: Wynton Marsalis
- No. 9: Count Basie
- No. 8: Nat "King" Cole
- No. 7: Larry McKenna
- No. 6: Duke Ellington
- No. 5: John Coltrane
- No, 4: Louis Armstrong
- No. 3: Dave Brubeck
- No. 2: Miles Davis
- No. 1: Ella Fitzgerald