Interactive Composer Game (Voting Thread)

[Cato]

  0:) BRUCKNER  0:)  MAHLER  0:)  SCHOENBERG  0:)  in the top ten sounds fair to me!

One curiosity: used-car salesman Dick Wagner    is missing! 

[North Star]

  0:) BRUCKNER  0:)  MAHLER  0:)  SCHOENBERG  0:)  in the top ten sounds fair to me!

One curiosity: used-car salesman Dick Wagner    is missing! 

So is Beethoven - he was clearly too obvious a choice for everyone.

Hasn't this been a GMG trademark since forever? 

Two out of the first three, though, have a very large body of chamber and vocal / operatic music in their oeuvre, and their music is more cosmopolitan than "Germanic". I'd say the balance is more than redressed.

Fair enough.

[Karl Henning]

So is Beethoven - he was clearly too obvious a choice for everyone.

MN Dave would fume!

[Papy Oli]

MN Dave would fume!

That's ok, Beethoven is number 1, 3, 6, 7 and 10 in the Shed  0:)

[Brian]

After 10 pages of voting, Franz Joseph Haydn is our favorite composer!!

The Top Ten GMG Composers:

1.  Joseph Haydn
2.  Gustav Mahler
3.  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4.  Johannes Brahms
5.  Johann Sebastian Bach
5.  Arnold Schoenberg
7.  Anton Bruckner
8.  Dmitri Shostakovich
9.  Jean Sibelius
10. Maurice Ravel

I hope that one or more of your favored composers made the top ten.  Thanks much for voting!!  There will be a next game; don't know what or when.  If you have any suggestions, let me know.

Where the ()#*%!! is Beethoven?

At least I am contented with the #1 choice (and just listened to Symphony 101).

[Baron Scarpia]

Haydn first? It's rigged, rigged, I tell ya'.

[Sergeant Rock]

Haydn first? It's rigged, rigged, I tell ya'.

Obviously a conspiracy fomented by the Haydnistas 

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

That's ok, Beethoven is number 1, 3, 6, 7 and 10 in the Shed  0:)

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Obviously a conspiracy fomented by the Haydnistas 

Sarge

We are the insurgency.

[Cato]

Where... is Beethoven?

I thought he was a shoo-in, and so gave some points to Dvorak and Ives.

Perhaps Beethoven floats above such things, ineffable, intangible, circumcomposing    the Universe with his music!

[Karl Henning]

I thought he was a shoo-in, and so gave some points to Dvorak and Ives.

I had every confidence in the Haydnistas, so I concentrated on Schoenberg and (less successfully) Stravinsky, e.g.

[Sergeant Rock]

I had every confidence in the Haydnistas, so I concentrated on Schoenberg

I'm glad you did. Nice to see Arnie in the Top 10.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Perhaps Beethoven floats above such things, ineffable, intangible, circumcomposing    the Universe with his music!

Exactly. Ludwig van and Bach are, or should be, above the fray.

Sarge

[Mahlerian]

I had every confidence in the Haydnistas, so I concentrated on Schoenberg and (less successfully) Stravinsky, e.g.

This, and not a preference per se, is why I voted so little for Bach, Mahler, or Mozart.  They seemed fully able to survive on their own.  Not like poor Monteverdi. 

[Mirror Image]

I thought surely that Debussy would make the final list, but I'm certainly happy to see Ravel, Schoenberg, Mahler, and Bruckner in the list.

[Gurn Blanston]

This, and not a preference per se, is why I voted so little for Bach, Mahler, or Mozart.  They seemed fully able to survive on their own.  Not like poor Monteverdi. 

I feel your pain. There were others I would have liked to vote for (Schubert & Dvorak, for example), but I feared that if I split up my votes, then my main ones would fail. Sammy makes some hard choices for us, but I guess that's what makes the game interestingly strategic.

[Gurn Blanston]

Haydn first? It's rigged, rigged, I tell ya'.

Nah, it was a well-deserved victory. Without Haydn, it would be a different Mozart and (especially) Beethoven. And all that came after them. Just sayin'... 

[André]

Haydn deserves his first place 

I'm esp. glad for Brahms and Bach, though. Brahms has been voted for, but never really mentioned, pro or con. Quality over publicity...

Although I wouldn't have put Ravel, Schönberg or Mahler in the top 10, they would have been close behind, esp. Mahler.

[NikF]

It was fun watching in some instances how the long game was being played. 
And interesting results, even if as already pointed out kind of expected.
Cheers to Sammy for organising it.

[Sammy]

I feel your pain. There were others I would have liked to vote for (Schubert & Dvorak, for example), but I feared that if I split up my votes, then my main ones would fail. Sammy makes some hard choices for us, but I guess that's what makes the game interestingly strategic.

Don't forget that all of us determined the list of 30 composers.  The only thing I did on my own was to set up the infrastructure.