From: Heaps’ law and vocabulary richness in the history of classical music harmony
Composer | Birth | Death | L | V | # pieces |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 | 1750 | 757,945 | 2630 | 2169 |
Joseph Haydn | 1732 | 1809 | 401,162 | 2155 | 641 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1756 | 1791 | 504,386 | 2516 | 685 |
Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770 | 1827 | 670,380 | 3146 | 638 |
Franz Schubert | 1797 | 1828 | 292,007 | 2356 | 270 |
Frédéric Chopin | 1810 | 1849 | 128,373 | 2947 | 220 |
Robert Schumann | 1810 | 1856 | 103,432 | 2423 | 109 |
Franz Liszt | 1811 | 1886 | 116,044 | 2739 | 136 |
Johannes Brahms | 1833 | 1897 | 159,998 | 2612 | 148 |
Piotr I. Tchaikovsky | 1840 | 1893 | 156,749 | 2748 | 252 |
Antonín Dvořák | 1841 | 1904 | 110,855 | 2350 | 145 |
Gustav Mahler | 1860 | 1911 | 43,877 | 3034 | 33 |
Claude Debussy | 1862 | 1918 | 91,600 | 2728 | 194 |
Ferruccio Busoni | 1866 | 1924 | 26,898 | 2370 | 42 |
Ígor Stravinsky | 1882 | 1971 | 20,481 | 2443 | 39 |
All 76 | 1397 | 1992 | 5,131,159 | 4085 | 9489 |