Fill in the blank ...

[Brahmsian]

All > Stockhausen

  Or, the inverse.

Stockhausen > All, but Stockhausen 

[San Antone]

Another option that came to me following a progression from Beethoven ... Liszt would be Karol Szymanowski.

[Mirror Image]

Here's one:

Prokofiev ---> Shostakovich ---> Weinberg --->

[San Antone]

Here's one:

Prokofiev > Shostakovich > Weinberg >

Krzysztof Meyer

[Mirror Image]

Krzysztof Meyer

I'm not familiar enough with Meyer's work to agree, but the lineage I'm thinking about is this one:

Prokofiev ---> Shostakovich ---> Weinberg ---> Schnittke

The reason I chose Schnittke is pretty simple: he was hugely influenced by Shostakovich in the beginning and retained Prokofiev's Shostakovich's, and Weinberg's sense of satire and, in some cases, outrageousness. Of course, he became his own man around the time of his Symphony No. 1 where it seemed he just threw everything into the same stylistic pot --- a trait he also shared with the three afore mentioned composers.

[springrite]

I'm not familiar enough with Meyer's work to agree, but the lineage I'm thinking about is this one:

Prokofiev > Shostakovich > Weinberg > Schnittke

Nah! EVERYONE leads to Schnittke.

[Mirror Image]

Nah! EVERYONE leads to Schnittke.

[71 dB]

Oh! I thought this was > as in "is greater than," and was curious about why you and Karl of all people were starting such a controversial game of deciding that Liszt is greater than Debussy.

Well, > mean "greater than". You people should use ---> for example to illustrate an arrow.

Sweelinck ---> Scheidemann ---> Buxtehude ---> Schieferdecker
Saint-Saëns ---> Faure ---> Enescu
Tchaikovsky ---> Taneyev ---> Rachmaninov

[North Star]

Bach -> Mozart -> Chopin -> Fauré -> Ravel

[Ken B]

Well, > mean "greater than". You people should use ---> for example to illustrate an arrow.

Sweelinck ---> Scheidemann ---> Buxtehude ---> Schieferdecker
Saint-Saëns ---> Faure ---> Enescu
Tchaikovsky ---> Taneyev ---> Rachmaninov

Oh, I certainly meant greater than.

[71 dB]

Oh, I certainly meant greater than.

I'm done with "greater than" games. I enjoy the music I enjoy and I don't care if other people belittle my favorites.

[San Antone]

I'm done with "greater than" games. I enjoy the music I enjoy and I don't care if other people belittle my favorites.

When I began this thread I did not intend it to be a "greater than" comparison.  Unfortunately I used a symbol to indicate a chain of composers which is commonly used to represent "greater than".   Sorry for the confusion.

[Mirror Image]

Well, > mean "greater than". You people should use ---> for example to illustrate an arrow.

Done.