Classical period (music)

Quality:

Classical period - genre of Western music (c. 1730–1820). Article “Classical period (music)” in English Wikipedia has 51.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 14 references and 19 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 12.91 points.

This article has the best quality in Norwegian Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

In June 2026 the article “Classical period (music)” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 13 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Classical period (music)”, its content was written by 530 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1875 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 968 times in English Wikipedia and cited 6941 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #872 in November 2001
• Global: #985 in September 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #3827 in May 2012
• Global: #6127 in May 2012

There are 39 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Norwegian (no) Klassisismen (musikk)		99.2
2	Danish (da) Klassicisme (musik)		97.2414
3	Finnish (fi) Klassismin musiikki		84.8588
4	Japanese (ja) 古典派音楽		76.129
5	English (en) Classical period (music)		51.6398
6	Polish (pl) Muzyka klasycystyczna		39.1751
7	Portuguese (pt) Período Clássico (música)		30.2454
8	Korean (ko) 고전주의 음악		28.0434
9	Esperanto (eo) Klasikisma muziko		26.8705
10	Galician (gl) Música do Clasicismo		26.6718

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Classical period (music)		7 358 832
2	Spanish (es) Música del Clasicismo		3 491 479
3	Japanese (ja) 古典派音楽		869 957
4	French (fr) Musique de la période classique		758 051
5	Indonesian (id) Zaman Klasik (musik)		756 064
6	Polish (pl) Muzyka klasycystyczna		656 361
7	Russian (ru) Музыка эпохи классицизма		543 219
8	Italian (it) Classicismo (musica)		543 133
9	Thai (th) ดนตรีสมัยคลาสสิก		525 565
10	Portuguese (pt) Período Clássico (música)		481 675

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Classical period (music)		8 126
2	Spanish (es) Música del Clasicismo		1 906
3	Japanese (ja) 古典派音楽		1 871
4	Korean (ko) 고전주의 음악		1 292
5	Chinese (zh) 古典主义音乐		732
6	French (fr) Musique de la période classique		702
7	Thai (th) ดนตรีสมัยคลาสสิก		548
8	Italian (it) Classicismo (musica)		494
9	Russian (ru) Музыка эпохи классицизма		429
10	Portuguese (pt) Período Clássico (música)		428

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Classical period (music)		530
2	Spanish (es) Música del Clasicismo		213
3	French (fr) Musique de la période classique		121
4	Italian (it) Classicismo (musica)		99
5	Polish (pl) Muzyka klasycystyczna		94
6	Finnish (fi) Klassismin musiikki		73
7	Norwegian (no) Klassisismen (musikk)		68
8	Portuguese (pt) Período Clássico (música)		59
9	Catalan (ca) Classicisme musical		56
10	Hebrew (he) התקופה הקלאסית (מוזיקה)		47

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Classical period (music)		6
2	Danish (da) Klassicisme (musik)		1
3	Basque (eu) Klasizismo (musika)		1
4	Galician (gl) Música do Clasicismo		1
5	Japanese (ja) 古典派音楽		1
6	Dutch (nl) Classicisme (muziek)		1
7	Serbian (sr) Класицизам (музика)		1
8	Thai (th) ดนตรีสมัยคลาสสิก		1
9	Arabic (ar) الفترة الكلاسيكية (موسيقى)		0
10	Bulgarian (bg) Класицизъм (музика)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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