The New and Improved Favorite Russian Composers Poll

[Don]

I think I fixed things - you can now make your five votes.  Mine are:

Shostakovich
Myaskovsky
S. Taneyev
Weinberg
Scriabin

[ChamberNut]

Cool poll! 

In alphabetical order, my choices were:

Borodin
Mussorgsky
Prokofiev
Shostakovich
P. Tchaikovsky

[orbital]

I am not familiar with most names up there. My top 5 are:

Balakirev
Rachmaninov
Scriabin
Stravinsky
Shostakovich

[George]

Rachmaninov
Tchaikovsky
Scriabin
Shostakovich
Prokofiev

[karlhenning]

Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky
Pyotr Iliych Tchaikovsky

[Harry]

Tchaikovsky
Arensky
Borodin
Glazunov
Kabalevsky

But really, 5 is not nearly enough. I would have needed at least 12 choices......

[Sydney Grew]

We note with regret that one of the very best Russian composers, namely Valentin Shcherbacheff (1889 to 1952), is absent from the list. Is it we wonder even now not too late to request the inclusion of his name?

Members who have heard his 1919 Nonett for instance will at once realise the justice of our request. Every bar of that work quivers with its composer's sensitivity.

[karlhenning]

Shostakovich has already put in a justly strong showing, I see.

But really, 5 is not nearly enough. I would have needed at least 12 choices......

How true!  When one can choose but 5 . . . well, I immediately rued not including Rakhmaninov!

[PaulR]

P. Tchaikovsky
Shostakovich
Rachmaninov
Prokofiev
Mussorgsky

[M forever]

Don, what is the point of this poll? There are many interesting and "great" Russian composers. Why reduce them to 5 "favorite" ones? BTW, you forgot Grigory Kaputnikov, without any doubt one of the most visionary Russian composers of the 20th century.

[Brian]

You have a pretty limited view of the word "Russian" if Khachaturian is excluded. Yes, he was technically Georgian, but does this mean Stalin would be excluded from a poll of "Favorite Russian Dictators"?

Anyways, I'll vote later when I feel cheerier. It's 11:42 and I just woke up. 

[M forever]

You have a pretty limited view of the word "Russian" if Khachaturian is excluded. Yes, he was technically Georgian, but does this mean Stalin would be excluded from a poll of "Favorite Russian Dictators"?

Yes, he is. However, you can still vote for him as your "Favorite Soviet Dictator".

[Bogey]

Mussorgsky
Rachmaninov
Rimsky-Korsokov
Shostakovich

and not listed:

Nikolai N. Tcherepnin (Though he seemed to have composed little, the little I have I cherish.)

[71 dB]

Medtner
Mussorgsky
Prokofiev
Rachmaninov
Taneyev

[jwinter]

Five I would never be without...

Tchaikovsky
Prokofiev
Rachmaninov
Rimsky-Korsakov
Shostakovich

[Brian]

Yes, he is. However, you can still vote for him as your "Favorite Soviet Dictator".

Oh good! But if we are to split hairs in such ways, Cui was born in Lithuania and Borodin was the illegitimate son of a Georgian nobleman.

[Todd]

Mussorgsky
Stravinsky
Prokofiev
Shostakovich
Scriabin

With a more than honorable mention for Gubaidulina and Schnittke

[(poco) Sforzando]

Oh good! But if we are to split hairs in such ways, Cui was born in Lithuania and Borodin was the illegitimate son of a Georgian nobleman.

Then you can start your own polls for favorite illegitimate sons of Georgian noblemen and favorite composers born in Lithuania. 

[BachQ]

Proko, baby ......

Also,

Tchaik
Shosty
Rach
Mussogsky

[The Emperor]

By mistake i only voted in Shosty, errrr
At least it was the right one...