Spare a Tier for the Composers

[MN Dave]

Take your twelve top composers. Create three tiers. Four composers per tier.

Shut up! It will be fun! 

First Tier: Chopin, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven

Second Tier: Haydn, Schumann, Brahms, Bach

Third Tier: Sibelius, Shostakovich, Purcell, Dvorak

[Keemun]

First Tier:  Bach, Bruckner, Mahler, Sibelius

Second Tier:  Beethoven, Brahms, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky

Third Tier:  Mendelssohn, Schmidt, Scriabin, Vaughan Williams

My third tier is questionable because they could change from day to day depending on my mood. 

[MN Dave]

Yeah, same here.

[Brian]

First Tier (ie, always favorites): Beethoven, Dvorak, Shostakovich, Chopin

Second Tier (ie, often favorites): Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Atterberg

Third Tier (they flit in and out of the favorites' circle or only 2-3 works are favorites): Mozart, Brahms, Ravel, Janacek

[some guy]

All these tiers are making me cry.

[Sylph]

All these tiers are making me cry.

Because no one mentioned Lachenmann?

[some guy]

Because no one mentioned Lachenmann?

Wow, way to trample all over my pun.

[Bulldog]

Take your twelve top composers. Create three tiers. Four composers per tier.

Shut up! It will be fun! 

Yes Sir!


First Tier: Bach, Schumann, Scriabin and Shostakovich

Second Tier:  Zemlinsky, Beethoven, Mozart and Weinberg

Third Tier:  Dvorak, Miaskovsky, Brahms and Medtner

[Sylph]

Wow, way to trample all over my pun.

LOL. You think I "trampled"?

[WI Dan]

Shut up! It will be fun! 

Hear!  Hear! 


1st Tier:    Bach - Beethoven - Mozart - Haydn

2nd Tier:   Dvorak - Schubert - Sibelius - Chopin

3rd Tier:   Bruckner - Prokofiev - Shostakovich - Barber

[Sergeant Rock]

I tried to obey the rules but couldn't. There's no way I could leave out any of these composers or choose one over another. Sorry.

First Tier:  Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler, Sibelius, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert, Bach

Second Tier: Mozart, Haydn, Vaughan Williams, Shostakovich, R. Strauss, Rachmaninoff, Ives, Elgar

Third Tier:  Dvorak, Schumann, Schmidt, Zemlinsky, Schönberg, Prokofiev, Langgaard, Havergal Brian

Even with eight per tier I still have no room for Berg, Webern, Barber, Delius, Debussy, Ravel (edit: NIELSEN!). This is an impossible assignment. I need three tiers with 100 composers each 

Sarge

[71 dB]

I tried to obey the rules but couldn't.

I must break the 4 x 3 rule too because I have only 2 first tiers:

First Tier: Elgar, Bach

Second Tier: Handel, Mozart, Buxtehude, Bruhns, Rameau

Third Tier: Beethoven, Haydn, Villa-Lobos, Nielsen, M.-A. Charpentier

[greg]

I'll stick to the rules even though it won't end up being accurate.

1st Tier: Mahler, Prokofiev, Brahms, Bruckner
2nd Tier: Shostakovich, Xenakis, Penderecki, Schoenberg
3rd Tier: Gorecki, Berg, Wagner, Stravinsky

[Sergeant Rock]

Third Tier:Nielsen

Nielsen! ...damn, when I made my list I knew I was forgetting at least one composer really important to me.

Sarge

[hornteacher]

1st Tier Beethoven, Beethoven, Beethoven, and Beethoven
2nd Tier Mozart, Dvorak, Copland, and Haydn
3rd Tier Bach, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Shostakovich

[DavidRoss]

1--Beethoven, Bach, Sibelius, Mozart
2--Stravinsky, Debussy, Brahms, Mahler
3--Prokofiev, RVW, Tchaikovsky, Dvořák

Top tier constant, second nearly so, third could change substantially on any given day.

What's the point of threads like this?  (Someone's bound to ask.)  Might be helpful, especially to new members, to know others' tastes in order to judge the relevance of their recommendations in light of our own tastes.

[some guy]

What's the point of threads like this?  (Someone's bound to ask.)  Might be helpful, especially to new members, to know others' tastes in order to judge the relevance of their recommendations in light of our own tastes.

Absolutely spot on, I'd say.

Tier one: Cage, Berlioz, Bartok, Karkowski
Tier two: Lachenmann, eRikm, Otomo, Ferrari
Tier three: Ferreyra, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Gobeil

There, that oughta put paid to any credibility I may have had here. (Or oughtn't it?) In any case, any recommendations I would make come from actually having much bigger tiers than these. Dozens more in each tier.

And though I still thoroughly agree with David's assessment of the worth of such threads, I also still feel, in practice, that all I've really done is left off a ton of great favorites. My own personal list of favorites grows each year, each week for that matter. This music thing is a pretty large area, and I can never shake the feeling that I know only the tiniest of tiny slivers of it.

[imperfection]

First tier: Beethoven, Mahler, Chopin, Wagner
Second tier: Mozart, Bach, Bruckner, Brahms
Third tier: Schubert, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Strauss

[Air]

First Tier: Bach, Prokofiev, Beethoven, Schumann
Second Tier: Mozart, Mahler, Schubert, Bartok
Third Tier: Chopin, Ravel, Bruckner, Villa-Lobos

This is terrible.  I hate it. 

[DavidRoss]

I also still feel, in practice, that all I've really done is left off a ton of great favorites. My own personal list of favorites grows each year, each week for that matter. This music thing is a pretty large area, and I can never shake the feeling that I know only the tiniest of tiny slivers of it.

Gosh, first you agree with one of my comments, and now I agree with this one of yours.  Truly we live in an age of miracles and wonders!