Mendelssohn vs. Schoenberg

[MN Dave]

 

[karlhenning]

Great poll, Dave!

[MN Dave]

But is it the greatest poll? 

[Franco]

Oh definitely it is the greatest poll. 

In fact, I thik it is great that we are having all these great discussions about who is great or who isn't great.  Great, I say - let's have more, in fact, it would so great if all we did was declare if something, anything, everything: recordings, performers, composers, individual peices, individual movements, individual measures, were great or not.  That would be so great.

Don't you think it would great fun?

Great.

So who wants to start?

[MN Dave]

Actually, I fear it is an awful poll because it will come down to the Classical vs. The Modern.

[Opus106]

Greatest at failing to impress me?

[MN Dave]

Greatest at failing to impress me?

[Todd]

When first I saw this title I thought it would be a poll along the lines of "which great composer do you listen to the least," but no.

[Sergeant Rock]

But is it the greatest poll? 

We won't know if it is the greatest--the poll a work of genius--until Josquin or James arrives to tell us. They know greatness. Just ask them 

Sarge

[karlhenning]

We won't know if it is the greatest--the poll a work of genius--until Josquin or James arrives to tell us. They know greatness. Just ask them 

Sick! ; )

[Sergeant Rock]

P.S.  I voted for Arnold...although I confess that pic of him in a bathing suit may have unduly influenced me.

Sarge

[karlhenning]

If I were not at present so (happily) preoccupied with Henningmusick, I would cue up some Arnold this very day!

[Lethevich]

Sorry, Mendelssohn has to bow to the superior genius in this case

[karlhenning]

Testify, Sara!

[Brian]

P.S.  I voted for Arnold...although I confess that pic of him in a bathing suit may have unduly influenced me.

Sarge

It is a mark of how little attention I pay to Schoenberg that when you said "Arnold" here, first I thought, "But Malcolm Arnold wasn't an option in the poll!" And then I thought, "Neither was Arnold Bax." And then, "Maybe it's a Schwarzenegger joke." Followed at last by, "...Oh."

[PaulR]

I prefer Mendelssohn's music by far, but Shoenberg was a better composer.

[Brahmsian]

It is a mark of how little attention I pay to Schoenberg that when you said "Arnold" here, first I thought, "But Malcolm Arnold wasn't an option in the poll!" And then I thought, "Neither was Arnold Bax." And then, "Maybe it's a Schwarzenegger joke." Followed at last by, "...Oh."

Brian,

I think an Arnold vs. Sylvester thread makes at least as much sense as a Mendelssohn vs. Schoenberg thread.   

[Todd]

I think an Arnold vs. Sylvester thread makes at least as much sense as a Mendelssohn vs. Schoenberg thread.

In that case it would be Arnold by a country mile.

[knight66]

Just popping in to point out that if it is a comparison of only two, it is to find the greater. You need three to find the greatest.

Mike

[Saul]

This poll is too modern!!!!