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Poll: Overrated Or Underrated?

Austenite
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Overrated or underrated? 28 members have voted

  1. 1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    • Overrated
      39%
      11
    • Underrated
      3%
      1
    • Neither
      57%
      16
    • Never heard of him
      0%
      0

  2. 2. Anton Bruckner

    • Overrated
      39%
      11
    • Underrated
      28%
      8
    • Neither
      14%
      4
    • Never heard of him
      17%
      5

  3. 3. Franz Joseph Haydn

    • Overrated
      21%
      6
    • Underrated
      60%
      17
    • Neither
      17%
      5
    • Never heard of him
      0%
      0

  4. 4. Antonio Vivaldi

    • Overrated
      35%
      10
    • Underrated
      25%
      7
    • Neither
      39%
      11
    • Never heard of him
      0%
      0

  5. 5. Gustav Mahler

    • Overrated
      21%
      6
    • Underrated
      32%
      9
    • Neither
      42%
      12
    • Never heard of him
      3%
      1

  6. 6. Hans Zimmer

    • Overrated
      75%
      21
    • Underrated
      7%
      2
    • Neither
      10%
      3
    • Never heard of him
      7%
      2

  7. 7. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    • Overrated
      25%
      7
    • Underrated
      25%
      7
    • Neither
      50%
      14
    • Never heard of him
      0%
      0

  8. 8. Felix Mendelssohn

    • Overrated
      21%
      6
    • Underrated
      50%
      14
    • Neither
      28%
      8
    • Never heard of him
      0%
      0

  9. 9. Georg Friedrich Haendel

    • Overrated
      25%
      7
    • Underrated
      28%
      8
    • Neither
      39%
      11
    • Never heard of him
      7%
      2

  10. 10. Charles-Valentin Alkan

    • Overrated
      14%
      4
    • Underrated
      28%
      8
    • Neither
      10%
      3
    • Never heard of him
      46%
      13

  11. 11. Alfred Schnittke

    • Overrated
      3%
      1
    • Underrated
      35%
      10
    • Neither
      32%
      9
    • Never heard of him
      28%
      8

  12. 12. Johannes Brahms

    • Overrated
      35%
      10
    • Underrated
      14%
      4
    • Neither
      46%
      13
    • Never heard of him
      3%
      1

  13. 13. Ludwig van Beethoven

    • Overrated
      28%
      8
    • Underrated
      3%
      1
    • Neither
      67%
      19
    • Never heard of him
      0%
      0

  14. 14. John Williams

    • Overrated
      28%
      8
    • Underrated
      28%
      8
    • Neither
      35%
      10
    • Never heard of him
      7%
      2

  15. 15. Richard Wagner

    • Overrated
      57%
      16
    • Underrated
      7%
      2
    • Neither
      35%
      10
    • Never heard of him
      0%
      0

  16. 16. Alban Berg

    • Overrated
      10%
      3
    • Underrated
      39%
      11
    • Neither
      17%
      5
    • Never heard of him
      32%
      9

  17. 17. Jean Sibelius

    • Overrated
      10%
      3
    • Underrated
      60%
      17
    • Neither
      21%
      6
    • Never heard of him
      7%
      2

  18. 18. Bela Bartok

    • Overrated
      21%
      6
    • Underrated
      32%
      9
    • Neither
      42%
      12
    • Never heard of him
      3%
      1

  19. 19. Richard Strauss

    • Overrated
      50%
      14
    • Underrated
      10%
      3
    • Neither
      35%
      10
    • Never heard of him
      3%
      1

  20. 20. John Adams

    • Overrated
      32%
      9
    • Underrated
      14%
      4
    • Neither
      28%
      8
    • Never heard of him
      25%
      7

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Featured Replies

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!

Had to vote "Never heard of him" on a fair number that I had heard before but wasn't familiar enough with to actually give a real answer :P

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    That's perfectly fine - that option was there for a reason.

    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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    Poll closing at 23:59 on Feb. 13th, 2016.

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