Can you name the most significant classical composers? by Mahler

Can you name the most significant classical composers?

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Classical Composer Challenge Quiz

by Mahler

Created Jan 11, 2011 in Music
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	midnightdj:	Jan 12th, 2011 at 03:20 GMT	1 point
	Good quiz, but what is your source? Or is this just your opinion? Two surprising omissions to me are George Bizet and Leonard Bernstein...

	Mahler:	Jan 12th, 2011 at 03:24 GMT	1 point
	Hey, thanks. I was just using wikipedias list of composers and picking and choosing myself. I'm not able to test run the quiz so I've been playing it to make sure things are spelled right or if I'm missing anyone. Bernstein was already added, and I'll definitely put in Bizet.

	RandallPinkston:	Jan 12th, 2011 at 04:22 GMT	1 point
	Elliott Carter, Gesualdo, George Crumb, Revueltas, and John Dowland are worthy additions. Also, while I understand and sympathize with the impulse to include composers like Amy Beach and Nadia Boulanger, I think the place to find significant female composers is in the past thirty years--Sofia Gubaidulina, Joan Tower, Meredith Monk, Julia Wolfe, Kaija Saariaho, Chen Yi, et al.

	Mahler:	Jan 12th, 2011 at 04:36 GMT	1 point
	Thanks, suggestions have been taken into consideration. Added in Crumb, Carter, Dowland and Gubaidulina (also Massanet who I realized I was missing).

	Spaceman:	Jan 19th, 2011 at 09:48 GMT	1 point
	If you are after prominent female composers then Germaine Tailleferre would be near the top of my list. Also you are missing Leo Delibes

	Irving:	Jan 24th, 2011 at 09:13 GMT	1 point
	We'll always be able to argue about who was "significant," but this was fun, thanks. A few I'd advocate for, whether or not they're really among the top 200 ever, in order of (my perception of) significance: Scott Joplin, Terry Riley, Lou Harrison, Osvaldo Golijov, Peter Maxwell Davies, the other John Adams (John Luther Adams), La Monte Young.

	ilovelamp8388:	Apr 4th, 2011 at 04:33 GMT	1 point
	massenet*

	EyeKanFly:	Apr 7th, 2011 at 09:03 GMT	2 points
	I suggest adding Heinrich Schütz, one of the pioneers of German opera (the first to write an opera entirely in German). Please accept "Strauss II" or just "Strauss" for Johann Strauss II. Also I was wondering in what way they're ordered; it seems like they're roughly in chronological order, but did you arrange it by date of birth or death or what?

	prahl:	Apr 12th, 2011 at 03:19 GMT	1 point
	Probably birth if you look at chopin - schumann - liszt. I really like this quiz, but typing "massanet" and "ii" (for strauss II) always kind of disturbs me..

	BamaMuaddib:	Jun 5th, 2011 at 03:51 GMT	1 point
	Interesting and I enjoyed it. I think it is a pretty good list but I agree regarding Johann Strauss--just take the basic name for II since there were three who were all notable. I think if Scott Joplin's in then John Philip Sousa ought to be. Also I thought John Rutter might make the cut.

	emmafrisbee:	Nov 2nd, 2011 at 23:56 GMT	1 point
	I'd also include John Rutter, also John Field, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Ibert, Locatelli, Diabelli, Finzi and John Blow. I also think you should clarify that your use of the term 'classical' in the title is in the popular loose sense of the word, not in the technical sense. I wasted a good few minutes only typing in composers dating from around 1750-1810 until I realised you were including composers from medieval, baroque, romantic, 20th century etc. periods as well.