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Overrated or underrated?  

28 members have voted

  1. 1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    • Overrated
      11
    • Underrated
      1
    • Neither
      16
    • Never heard of him
      0
  2. 2. Anton Bruckner

    • Overrated
      11
    • Underrated
      8
    • Neither
      4
    • Never heard of him
      5
  3. 3. Franz Joseph Haydn

    • Overrated
      6
    • Underrated
      17
    • Neither
      5
    • Never heard of him
      0
  4. 4. Antonio Vivaldi

    • Overrated
      10
    • Underrated
      7
    • Neither
      11
    • Never heard of him
      0
  5. 5. Gustav Mahler

    • Overrated
      6
    • Underrated
      9
    • Neither
      12
    • Never heard of him
      1
  6. 6. Hans Zimmer

    • Overrated
      21
    • Underrated
      2
    • Neither
      3
    • Never heard of him
      2
  7. 7. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    • Overrated
      7
    • Underrated
      7
    • Neither
      14
    • Never heard of him
      0
  8. 8. Felix Mendelssohn

    • Overrated
      6
    • Underrated
      14
    • Neither
      8
    • Never heard of him
      0
  9. 9. Georg Friedrich Haendel

    • Overrated
      7
    • Underrated
      8
    • Neither
      11
    • Never heard of him
      2
  10. 10. Charles-Valentin Alkan

    • Overrated
      4
    • Underrated
      8
    • Neither
      3
    • Never heard of him
      13
  11. 11. Alfred Schnittke

    • Overrated
      1
    • Underrated
      10
    • Neither
      9
    • Never heard of him
      8
  12. 12. Johannes Brahms

    • Overrated
      10
    • Underrated
      4
    • Neither
      13
    • Never heard of him
      1
  13. 13. Ludwig van Beethoven

    • Overrated
      8
    • Underrated
      1
    • Neither
      19
    • Never heard of him
      0
  14. 14. John Williams

    • Overrated
      8
    • Underrated
      8
    • Neither
      10
    • Never heard of him
      2
  15. 15. Richard Wagner

    • Overrated
      16
    • Underrated
      2
    • Neither
      10
    • Never heard of him
      0
  16. 16. Alban Berg

    • Overrated
      3
    • Underrated
      11
    • Neither
      5
    • Never heard of him
      9
  17. 17. Jean Sibelius

    • Overrated
      3
    • Underrated
      17
    • Neither
      6
    • Never heard of him
      2
  18. 18. Bela Bartok

    • Overrated
      6
    • Underrated
      9
    • Neither
      12
    • Never heard of him
      1
  19. 19. Richard Strauss

    • Overrated
      14
    • Underrated
      3
    • Neither
      10
    • Never heard of him
      1
  20. 20. John Adams

    • Overrated
      9
    • Underrated
      4
    • Neither
      8
    • Never heard of him
      7


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Posted

Now you can vote for each of 20 composers named at least once in the Overrated-Underrated thread, listed in no particular order. This way we can see how many of our fellow YC members have similar opinions on said composers.

 

Please note that I would have liked to list every single composer named in that thread, but that would have been too many questions.

 

The options are very simple: tell us if said composer is, in your view, overrated, underrated, neither, or if you've never heard of him at all.

 

Enjoy the ride!

Posted

Vivaldi and Adams were the only two I voted overrated. Adams probably not as much, but for me personally, Vivaldi's music just blurs together too much for him to be pleasurable to me. It just sounds like cliché italian baroque music to me and that gets old after a while. 

 

I definitely think that Charles-Valentin Alkan is one of the most underrated composers I've ever come across though. I can't express how underrated I feel he is. Same with Schnittke.

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