Best Composer Ever

It's time for an update. If you haven't been into the library to vote for your favorite composer, you should! Remember, it doesn't necessarily have to be the composer who wrote your favorite music. You can like other things about these composers, too. We're just trying to identify "Best in Show."

Speaking of which... Those who are probably not the "Best," but who are beloved of someone, the composers with one vote: Donizetti, Rameau, Ligeti, Francaix, Janacek, Faure, Bozza, Nielsen, Milhaud, Schumann, Schoenberg, Glass, Rossini, Chopin, Hildegard von Bingen, Villa-Lobos, Michael Haydn, Verdi, Larry Bell, Buxtehude, Salieri, Golijov, Holst, Elgar, Haydn, Corelli, and Vaughan Williams.

Then, of course, there are the "Slightly Better" composers, those with two votes--Strauss, Ravel, CPE Bach, Handel, Schubert, Messiaen, Poulenc, Vivaldi, Copland, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, Lee Hartman, Scriabin, Piazzola, Wagner, Not-Brahms, Beethoven, Xenakis, Puccini, Debussy, and Reich--or three--Berg, George Crumb, Barber, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Berio, Prokofiev, and Cage.

And finally, the short list. With four votes, we have Ives, Mozart, Brahms, Britten, Rachmaninoff, and Stravinsky. Last update's favorite, Bartok, has five votes.

Shostakovich has eight votes.

Bach has nine.



There are hundreds of New Music people at this festival. Why is Bach winning?

Come in and vote!