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Which among these following composers are your favorite? Choose 3

Galuppi
Farnaby
Anton Rubinstein
Clementi
A. Siloti
Czerny
P. Grainger
Lyapunov
Liadov
J. Medins
Medtner
John Bull
Alkan
Thalberg
Widor
Faure
C. Frank
Gottschalk
Liu Tian Hua
Busoni
Widor
Faure
Godowsky
Dargomyzhsky
John Field
Moscheles
Kalkbrenner
Franz something Mozart
Leopold Mozart
Charles Vine
Mowskowski
Selim Palmgren
Aliabyev
Praetorius
Hummel
Piazolla
Bortkiewicz
Skerjanc
Ornstein
Alban Berg

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Topic: Favorite underrated composers  (Read 12512 times)

Offline alistaircrane4

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Re: Favorite underrated composers
Reply #50 on: March 13, 2015, 09:44:56 AM
Forgot to mention Blumenfeld.
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Offline mjames

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Re: Favorite underrated composers
Reply #51 on: March 13, 2015, 04:43:36 PM
Poll is pretty much saying that Medtner doesn't deserve to be underrated. I am currently listening to his quintet, and my mind is being blown. He was a great composer.
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Re: Favorite underrated composers
Reply #52 on: March 13, 2015, 05:12:21 PM
eh hem. Hiller. yup.yup.
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Offline j_menz

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Re: Favorite underrated composers
Reply #53 on: March 13, 2015, 11:28:22 PM
Quote from: mjames on March 13, 2015, 04:43:36 PM
Medtner doesn't deserve to be underrated.

If he (or, for that matter, anyone else) deserved it, he wouldn't be underrated, just lowly rated.
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