Top 50 Composers...or are they?

[bignaf]

I assume you mean overrated and underrated by this list...
underrated:
tier 1: Beethoven
tier 2: Mahler or Stravinsky
tier 3: Puccini
tier 4: Bartok
tier 5: Von Weber (maybe)

overrated:
tier 1: Handel
tier 2: Mendelssohn
tier 3: Telemann
tier 4: Rameau (maybe)
tier 5: Vaughn Williams

[Shapley]

Kind of hard to imagine that anyone who makes the 'top fiifty' list could be considered underrated...

[Catmando]

I assume you mean overrated and underrated by this list...
underrated:
tier 1: Beethoven
tier 2: Mahler or Stravinsky
tier 3: Puccini
tier 4: Bartok
tier 5: Von Weber (maybe)

overrated:
tier 1: Handel
tier 2: Mendelssohn
tier 3: Telemann
tier 4: Rameau (maybe)
tier 5: Vaughn Williams

Actually, I really just meant overrated/underrated in general, and not necessarily where they are on this list. But of course, chosing from the list.

Interesting that you chose Beethoven as underrated in Tier 1.

[bignaf]

the thing is it's hard for me to evaluate how other people rate composers, so I take his concrete example. I think he underrated Beethoven by putting him in 3rd place. he's easy 1st according to my taste.

[Selma in Sandy Eggo]

It's really hard for me to play this game. How the heck can I evaluate a list that omits Neil Diamond, and Mason Williams, and Hank Mancini, and the Muppets?

It's hopeless. List=horrible.

[jamiebk]

It's really hard for me to play this game. How the heck can I evaluate a list that omits Neil Diamond, and Mason Williams, and Hank Mancini, and the Muppets?

It's hopeless. List=horrible.

Hey...you forgot Michael Boulton and Yanni