As we move on to Round Two of our megabracket of Favorite Composers, it’s still a very large bracket and will take some time to complete. We had a surprising number of very close matchups in the first round:
- Albéniz beat Ockeghem by 1 vote!
- Berio beat Rouse by 1 vote!
- Birtwistle beat Nono by 1 vote!
- Delibes beat DuFay by 1 vote!
- Dukas beat Gluck by 1 vote!
- Duruflé beat Gesualdo by 1 vote!
- Franchetti beat Donizetti by 1 vote!
- MacDowell beat Boulez by 1 vote!
- Messiaen beat Galuppi by 1 vote!
- Nielsen beat Granados by 1 vote!
- Reich beat Biber by 1 vote!
- Villa-Lobos beat JC Bach by 1 vote!
- Cage beat Argento by 2 votes
- Crumb beat de Falla by 2 votes
- G. Gabrieli beat Charpentier by 2 votes
- Pergolesi beat Lalo by 3 votes
- Górecki beat Scriabin by 3 votes
- Gubaidulina beat Glazunov by 3 votes
- Riley beat Machaut by 3 votes
- Saariaho beat Enescu by 3 votes
We also had several shutouts!
- Dvorák beat Tartini 33-0
- Debussy beat Cui 32-0
- Handel beat Landini 32-0
- Liszt beat Spohr 32-0
- Copland beat Suk 29-0
- Purcell beat field 28-0
Vote now in Round Two!
The deadline is Tuesday evening, January 2.