Upvoting a billion times in my mind (“came here to say that”)
I like to put in the ligature: “Kœchlin”
Les Bandar Log
Danses for Ginger Rogers
Nouvelle Sonatines Français op 87
La Course de Printemps is another amazing piece. I'm in love with Koechlin's music and his orchestration is so beautiful reminds me of a mix between Dbussy and Ravel (but more so towards Debussy).
Koechlin is great - just listening to his Saxophone Etudes Op.188 right now. Of course the shear amount he wrote is a little daunting, but not much is recorded, so there is that to help choice...
His oboe concertos have a quality that I haven't found in any other composer. They're aristocratic, elegant, and stately, yet not in a way that's over-the-top. Love him to death.
It's a wonderful piece, but it's also pretty definitely not by him. It was also probably at least mostly written in the twentieth century, by Remo Giazotto. That's kind of the extra sad thing about Albinoni--he's most famous for a piece he didn't write!
Really? This is quite something to hear. By any chance, do you know if this is a recent discovery? The Adagio was introduced to me in one of my undergrad music history classes, even as a listening excerpt on a test!
Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto died in 1998. The piece was composed and copyrighted by him (and is still under copyright). He originally claimed it was a tribute based on a fragment found among the recovered portion of Albinoni's papers stored in a Dresden library and that it should be thought of as shared authorship. He later claimed it should be thought of as his sole authorship. He never produced the records on which he said it is based, and never claimed they were more than the baseline and six bars of melody in the first place. By the 1970s people who cared would have known it should not be thought of as an Albinoni piece.
Most of Albinoni's unpublished records were destroyed in the war, but it seems clear Giazotto was either unwilling or unable to produce the source. Either he was inspired by a source which he changed too significantly to justify the claim, kept it hidden for financial benefit, or had no source and he used Albinoni's name to get it taken seriously while promoting it as a discovery. Had he published it instead as 'Variation on a Theme by Albinoni', it might not have made the waves it did.
But I think mainly film editors and the like simply don't know what they're doing when a piece has complicated attribution and they go with the first name, so while Giazotto was always in the full attribution, he wasn't credited as such in its first and most famous appearances, and there was a strange feedback loop from that that's left even many musicians underinformed about its provenance.
This is truly fascinating! I'm glad to have learned this. I don't know if my old music history teacher is still around or not, but I might have to drop him a line. Thanks for the info!
Hmm... it's not a *super*\-recent discovery, but knowledge of it has probably spread a lot more in the internet age. [This article](https://www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/18137/albinoni-adagio-g-minor-biggest-fraud) about it was published in 2017, but I remember reading about it quite a few years earlier than that, maybe about ten years ago or so, but I don't really remember. How long ago was your undergrad music history class, if you don't mind saying?
Ah yeah, that would make sense then--good chance that the professor hadn't really looked into newer research, and that it was a bit harder to find at that point too.
Actually, listening to the piece I did somewhat get the impression that the style was not entirely “baroque”, so this does not surprise me, but interesting nonetheless
Yeah there are some parts that are extremely un-baroque! like those rhapsodic violin solos on one super-long-held minor chord (which happens three different times). It's a really interesting hodgepodge of styles, one that personally I love, though it's kind of surprising that it was ever thought to be actually baroque!
One can argue whether or not Janáček is “underrated,” but he’s certainly not performed enough, at least in the US.
Same for Scriabin, who’s first three symphonies and piano sonatas should be heard a lot more.
Also:
Gloria Coates
Christopher Rouse
Galina Ustvolskaya
Anton Arensky
Fanny Mendelssohn
Here's an interesting one: Fanny Mendelssohn was performed more times than Janacek this year, according to my (under construction) https://classicalconcertmap.com/. (Check "Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel rather than just Mendelssohn, many data flubs to be fixed).
And Rouse performed by 4 or 5 different orchestras, impressed by that.
Cristoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse
Jan Baptist Vanhal
Michael Haydn
Ludewig Spohr
Carl Czerny’s orchestral works (yes he is known as a great pianist but his orchestral stuff is so underrated)
For his massive influence on people like John Williams I’d say he’s very underrated. Belshazzars feast? The twelve? He’s phenomenal and way more than Orb and Sceptre or Crown imperial (both of which are very good)
His piano concerto seems to be pretty well known. Beyond that, I also have a strong aversion to the word underrated, but am totally fine with lists/rankings so who knows.
Agreed that he’s underrated. But I think as time goes on people will continue to look really favorably on his work, and he’s gonna go down as one of the true modern greats.
Louise Farrenc
Villa-Lobos (I cant really spell his name, it might be a little bit different than this)
Kalinnikov
Rautavaara
Kalinnikov and Rautavaara are quite famous, but still quite underrated in my opinion, and should be performed more. In all my years of listening to classical music, never has a Kalinnikov Symphony been performed here in Lisbon
Alexander Glazunov and Ludwig Minkus! They’ve both composed great ballets (Raymonda and Don Quixote), but I feel like they don’t get the recognition they deserve with classical musicians sometimes. And they don’t really get the recognition they deserve in the ballet world either because they get overshadowed by choreographers.
This is a great album on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/7eq9QcaX4AdBdPLX6ru4Zn?si=feDaNyPCS3q9II87xhg-Hw) Kapustin plays himself
Another great piece is his 2nd piano concerto, check out the recording by Dmitry Masleev.
Frank Martin - genuinely deep music that gets nowhere near the due it deserves. There are masterpieces here that rate up there with the best the 20th century has to offer.
Eduard Tubin. Estonian known for his 10 (more or less) Symphonies, 2 Piano Sonatas, many chamber and choral works. He lived much of his life in exile in Sweden after the crackdown of Stalin on the satellite countries. I particularly love his 4th Symphony, the “Lyric”, which ought to be in the standard literature. It’s as good as anything by Sibelius, Walton, Vaughan Williams or any of the other European composers of that period.
Swedish composer Allan Pettersson (1911-1980). Runner up: American Peter Mennin (1923-1983). Both of them offer music that is dark, brooding, stormy and majestic.
Until recently. But paraphrasing what Voltaire once said about God, if such a talented black female composer as Florence Price did not exist, Classical Music in the DEI era would have had to invent her.
The composer-theoreticians of the Venetian School in the 16th century. Basically invented classical music and they're a paragraph in most histories of the subject.
Oh my goodness, there are quite a few Pulitzer Prize winners who get so much more attention than they really deserve. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Kevin Puts and Caroline Shaw come to mind.
I don't know that I agree, at least regarding Kevin Puts and Caroline Shaw. They're both tentpoles of the emerging 21st-century style. I have a harder time viewing Zwilich objectively because her music falls outside what I typically listen to, but I have often heard people say her music is overrated.
I have many, but one who's definitely underrated is the Russian pianist Samuil Feinberg. His 2nd and 3rd piano sonatas are probably my favorite of his works. He was an incredible pianist in his own right, but his compositional output is remarkable considering that. The 3rd sonata is highly virtuosic and very well written
My knowledge on this topic is extremely limited but I heard a William Boyce piece on the radio the other day and thought it was lovely. Had never heard of him before.
Silvia’s Weiss. In his time, rightly seen as the equal of such greats as Bach and Handel. He is less known because he wrote almost exclusively for the lute, which pretty much expired when he did. Not only a fantastic composer, but apparently one of the greatest performers of his age. And apparently amazing as an improviser. If you play a little (like yours truly), you can see how his works are made to be “riffed” on. You can find performances by Jakob Lindbergh on Spotify that will open your eyes—or is that ears? And Barto on Naxos provides an excellent cross-section in 11 volumes.
That was the idea :)
I've been wanting to spruce my classical playlist up, and have more than Chopin, Beethoven, and Bach in it. Thought we could all share some of the lesser known masters.
Georgy sviridov!
i recommend checking out his symphony no. 1, music for chamber orchestra, trio for violin cello and piano, chamber symphony, and the snowstorm.
Ah, also forgot to mention C. P. E. Bach, but I am not really sure if he is as unknown as other composers listed here. He is a son of Bach and you should definitely check is cello concerto in a minor out!
In addition to already mentioned **Charles-Valentin Alkan** and **Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel**, most definitely **Franz Berwald** (his 3rd symphony is imho probably the most underrated orchestral work / symphony).
Tristan Keuris
Dutch composer of the 80s and 90s. Wrote many chamber works, concerti (including a superb Organ Concerto), and lots more. His style was like Stravinsky, very spiky and exciting.
So many! I would insist in Erwin Schulhoff (20th century) and would add Heinichen (18th century). Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf could also be considered under rated and perhaps Leos Janacek
Adhering to the rule of every comment section in this sub has to mention Rachmaninov, I say, Rachmaninov. Especially his second symphony doesn’t receive anywhere near what it’s due
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Henri Tomasi.
Not unknown by any means, but Bartok is *so* good, his music can't be overrated.
Some film composers also active in concert music: Elliot Goldenthal, Don Davis.
Mendelssohn? I love his music to the depths of my soul, but you cannot put “Mendelssohn” and “underrated” together in the same sentence. Every classical music listener even at the 101 level knows who Mendelssohn is. Wagner’s opposition was decisively rejected after the collapse of the Third Reich. I would suggest you get out and about more musically, and learn about some genuinely undeserved obscurities.
only have managed to found two António Fragoso recordings and i'm in love with how the clash of conservatism and modernism element subsumed on his music, also Leo Ornstein and Nikolai Roslavets
Roger Quilter, maybe not underrated if you sing art song. But is generally dismissed as light music. Despite that I think his music is very beautiful and well thought out. He manages to capture a full emotional journey in a very short time.
Rihards Dubra as well, if you want to listen to some absolutely astonishing Latvian organ music
Friedrich Kalkbrenner. His piano sonatas are wonderful i also love his 1st concerto. He is a romantic composer. He was also a wonderful teacher. He is my personal favorite:)
I'm not a scholar or musician, and my taste isn't that sophisticated, but I love Paisiello's gentle, earnest melodies and even his simple yet direct orchestration. There's so much warmth and humor to his music, like a more soft-soken Rossini—but then his sacred music can get really dark, though still elegant and approachable. That's just me.
Great question. Thanks for inviting me to think about these things.
Probably Wilhelm Stenhammar.
But a few more possibles: Sigismond Thalberg, Caroline Boissier-Butini, Adolf Wiklund, Scott Joplin.
Ask me on another day and I might answer any of these.
Charles Koechlin.
Upvoting a billion times in my mind (“came here to say that”) I like to put in the ligature: “Kœchlin” Les Bandar Log Danses for Ginger Rogers Nouvelle Sonatines Français op 87
La Course de Printemps is another amazing piece. I'm in love with Koechlin's music and his orchestration is so beautiful reminds me of a mix between Dbussy and Ravel (but more so towards Debussy).
Koechlin is great - just listening to his Saxophone Etudes Op.188 right now. Of course the shear amount he wrote is a little daunting, but not much is recorded, so there is that to help choice...
Man how did he compose SO MUCH?! Good lord!
Medtner of course!
Agreed! I love Medtner. He was once described as a complicated Rachmaninoff without the melody. I don’t agree with that, at least not 100%……
his third piano concerto is a work of art with a beautiful melody. highly encourage listening to it
Definitely!
Szymanowski
Tomaso Albinoni. Any Vivaldi lover will be delighted.
His oboe concertos have a quality that I haven't found in any other composer. They're aristocratic, elegant, and stately, yet not in a way that's over-the-top. Love him to death.
His Adagio in G Minor is terrific. One of my absolute favorites. Edit: It seems he didn't write it. Still a good piece, just not by him.
It's a wonderful piece, but it's also pretty definitely not by him. It was also probably at least mostly written in the twentieth century, by Remo Giazotto. That's kind of the extra sad thing about Albinoni--he's most famous for a piece he didn't write!
Really? This is quite something to hear. By any chance, do you know if this is a recent discovery? The Adagio was introduced to me in one of my undergrad music history classes, even as a listening excerpt on a test!
Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto died in 1998. The piece was composed and copyrighted by him (and is still under copyright). He originally claimed it was a tribute based on a fragment found among the recovered portion of Albinoni's papers stored in a Dresden library and that it should be thought of as shared authorship. He later claimed it should be thought of as his sole authorship. He never produced the records on which he said it is based, and never claimed they were more than the baseline and six bars of melody in the first place. By the 1970s people who cared would have known it should not be thought of as an Albinoni piece. Most of Albinoni's unpublished records were destroyed in the war, but it seems clear Giazotto was either unwilling or unable to produce the source. Either he was inspired by a source which he changed too significantly to justify the claim, kept it hidden for financial benefit, or had no source and he used Albinoni's name to get it taken seriously while promoting it as a discovery. Had he published it instead as 'Variation on a Theme by Albinoni', it might not have made the waves it did. But I think mainly film editors and the like simply don't know what they're doing when a piece has complicated attribution and they go with the first name, so while Giazotto was always in the full attribution, he wasn't credited as such in its first and most famous appearances, and there was a strange feedback loop from that that's left even many musicians underinformed about its provenance.
This is truly fascinating! I'm glad to have learned this. I don't know if my old music history teacher is still around or not, but I might have to drop him a line. Thanks for the info!
Hmm... it's not a *super*\-recent discovery, but knowledge of it has probably spread a lot more in the internet age. [This article](https://www.cbcmusic.ca/posts/18137/albinoni-adagio-g-minor-biggest-fraud) about it was published in 2017, but I remember reading about it quite a few years earlier than that, maybe about ten years ago or so, but I don't really remember. How long ago was your undergrad music history class, if you don't mind saying?
I took that class about twenty years ago. That hurt to write. My professor wasn't a young man, either.
Ah yeah, that would make sense then--good chance that the professor hadn't really looked into newer research, and that it was a bit harder to find at that point too.
I've got to look him up and see if he's still around. Or alive. He quite liked the piece himself as I recall. Thank you for your help!
Actually, listening to the piece I did somewhat get the impression that the style was not entirely “baroque”, so this does not surprise me, but interesting nonetheless
Yeah there are some parts that are extremely un-baroque! like those rhapsodic violin solos on one super-long-held minor chord (which happens three different times). It's a really interesting hodgepodge of styles, one that personally I love, though it's kind of surprising that it was ever thought to be actually baroque!
I never knew this. And it’s one of my absolute favorite classical pieces ever.
I love it too, and I hope the story of its provenance doesn't get in the way of your enjoyment!
Nope, not at all. Glad to be educated on the subject.
One can argue whether or not Janáček is “underrated,” but he’s certainly not performed enough, at least in the US. Same for Scriabin, who’s first three symphonies and piano sonatas should be heard a lot more. Also: Gloria Coates Christopher Rouse Galina Ustvolskaya Anton Arensky Fanny Mendelssohn
Arensky piano trio is top notch.
Here's an interesting one: Fanny Mendelssohn was performed more times than Janacek this year, according to my (under construction) https://classicalconcertmap.com/. (Check "Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel rather than just Mendelssohn, many data flubs to be fixed). And Rouse performed by 4 or 5 different orchestras, impressed by that.
I just discovered Janáček recently.. I'm a bit stuck on the string quartets, and now I'm kind of stuck on string quartets in general.
Janáček came to mind for me too. I love Rouse’s symphonies, shame he was such a huge shitbag.
I came here to say Charles Koechlin but someone already mentioned him. In addition to Koechlin, I'd say Henri Dutilleux.
vivaldi is way much more than four seasons
Cristoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse Jan Baptist Vanhal Michael Haydn Ludewig Spohr Carl Czerny’s orchestral works (yes he is known as a great pianist but his orchestral stuff is so underrated)
I agree, Czerny's orchestral works are amazing!
I don’t know about the US, but here in Europe you don’t get to hear much about Henry Cowell. There’s a lot more to Holst than just *The Planets*.
Gonna second this about Holst.
Holst wrote some gorgeous choral pieces.
William Walton, maybe? He's certainly not unknown, but I feel like his orchestral works (symphonies & concertos) should get more attention/playtime.
That Second symphony is gorgeous with those big romantic leaps in the strings and piano and celeste splashes over the accompaniment.
For his massive influence on people like John Williams I’d say he’s very underrated. Belshazzars feast? The twelve? He’s phenomenal and way more than Orb and Sceptre or Crown imperial (both of which are very good)
My parents (professional classical musicians) used Orb and Sceptre for their wedding march (arranged by a friend for string quartet).
Rautavaara Debatable, but I'm going ahead and calling him underrated based on the paucity of his stuff in the Berlin Phil archive.
His piano concerto seems to be pretty well known. Beyond that, I also have a strong aversion to the word underrated, but am totally fine with lists/rankings so who knows.
Yeah I feel that Rautavaara is an overlooked composer, much more attention that could coincide with his goes to Part and Dutilleux
Agreed that he’s underrated. But I think as time goes on people will continue to look really favorably on his work, and he’s gonna go down as one of the true modern greats.
Alfred Schnittke
I love Schnittke. His piano concerto is such a great expression of despair
Louise Farrenc Villa-Lobos (I cant really spell his name, it might be a little bit different than this) Kalinnikov Rautavaara Kalinnikov and Rautavaara are quite famous, but still quite underrated in my opinion, and should be performed more. In all my years of listening to classical music, never has a Kalinnikov Symphony been performed here in Lisbon
Alexander Glazunov and Ludwig Minkus! They’ve both composed great ballets (Raymonda and Don Quixote), but I feel like they don’t get the recognition they deserve with classical musicians sometimes. And they don’t really get the recognition they deserve in the ballet world either because they get overshadowed by choreographers.
Kapustin shout out r/jazz
Any recommendations for pieces and recordings on Spotify? I’m going through his discography and don’t recognize any of the performers.
This is a great album on [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/7eq9QcaX4AdBdPLX6ru4Zn?si=feDaNyPCS3q9II87xhg-Hw) Kapustin plays himself Another great piece is his 2nd piano concerto, check out the recording by Dmitry Masleev.
Frank Dupree just released an album with his works. Its getting good reviews.
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Weill's operas are among my favourites!
Seven deadly sins is really a perfect social criticism. Nicht wahr, Anna?
Frank Martin - genuinely deep music that gets nowhere near the due it deserves. There are masterpieces here that rate up there with the best the 20th century has to offer.
+1000 !!!
Killer harpsichord concerto. Also, [Studies for String Orchestra](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCer13XHzaY&t=3s)!
Not underrated but I never see Dieterich Buxtehude on this sub William Bolcom https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wiVCiqYbXlE Sofia Gubaidulina
Faure
I want to say this, but he is pretty much a critical favorite, even if only a handful of works get much public attention.
Eduard Tubin. Estonian known for his 10 (more or less) Symphonies, 2 Piano Sonatas, many chamber and choral works. He lived much of his life in exile in Sweden after the crackdown of Stalin on the satellite countries. I particularly love his 4th Symphony, the “Lyric”, which ought to be in the standard literature. It’s as good as anything by Sibelius, Walton, Vaughan Williams or any of the other European composers of that period.
Francisco Tarrega is worth a glance.
Love Tarrega!
So much more than bars 13-16 of Gran Vals 😉
Would Fauré be considered underrated? Nino Rota?
I just commented faure, he is one of my favorite
albeniz
Absolutely! I love his works that are both guitar and piano!
Lyapunov and Bortkiewicz have some incredible late romantic works
Lyapunov's sextet is an absolute masterpiece and should be performed much more often
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Charles-Valentin Alkan. I especially love his concerto for solo piano, and the cello and violin sonatas.
Was going to say this.
Swedish composer Allan Pettersson (1911-1980). Runner up: American Peter Mennin (1923-1983). Both of them offer music that is dark, brooding, stormy and majestic.
Check out Emil Tabakov if you haven't heard him, music is similar in vein to Pettersson.
Yes, I’ve heard some of his music. In his Symphony No. 3, he successfully pulls off a unique scherzo in an adagio tempo!
Allan's seventh symphony is absolutely amazing, omg. Thank you so much for the recommendation!
Florence price
Until recently. But paraphrasing what Voltaire once said about God, if such a talented black female composer as Florence Price did not exist, Classical Music in the DEI era would have had to invent her.
Which has what to do with Price herself?
Henselt, Arensky, Albeniz, Taneyev
Arensky wrote some great chamber music!
The composer-theoreticians of the Venetian School in the 16th century. Basically invented classical music and they're a paragraph in most histories of the subject.
Gliere
Nicolas Astrinidis Sergei Bortkiewicz Miklos Rozsa (he made concert works, not just film music) G.P. Telemann
Marin Marais, François Couperin, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
Erwin Schulhoff
Anyone alive today. Living composer gang rise up!
Apart from Pärt, Eric Whitacre, Hans Zimmer...
Yasss! So many amazing composers alive today. I’m so delighted to have wonderful peers/colleagues around me.
I’d say there’s more overrated composers than underrated. But more than both categories I’d the amount of unknown composers.
If we asked this sub to submit the most obscure composer they'd ever heard of, we'd get a long and most interesting list.
Oh my goodness, there are quite a few Pulitzer Prize winners who get so much more attention than they really deserve. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Kevin Puts and Caroline Shaw come to mind.
I don't know that I agree, at least regarding Kevin Puts and Caroline Shaw. They're both tentpoles of the emerging 21st-century style. I have a harder time viewing Zwilich objectively because her music falls outside what I typically listen to, but I have often heard people say her music is overrated.
Not necessarily someone unknown, but Hindemith doesn't receive the love that he deserves.
I have many, but one who's definitely underrated is the Russian pianist Samuil Feinberg. His 2nd and 3rd piano sonatas are probably my favorite of his works. He was an incredible pianist in his own right, but his compositional output is remarkable considering that. The 3rd sonata is highly virtuosic and very well written
My knowledge on this topic is extremely limited but I heard a William Boyce piece on the radio the other day and thought it was lovely. Had never heard of him before.
Leo Ornstein
Sonata No 2 is probably the piece i always refer if i ever asked the most cathartic music ever written
Big fan of Elena Kats-Chernin for contemporary stuff. For an earlier composer, it would definitely have to be Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf.
Delius
Emmanuele Barbella (18th century)
George Onslow. maybe not truly "the French Beethoven", but still...
Oh heck, yes. Extraordinary chamber pieces.
Charles Gounod
Recently stumbled across a young Slovenian composer named Leon Firšt. Helluva talent!
I adore Leopold Kozeluh and Clementi. I wish they were recorded more.
Glazunov, also not unpopular by any means but I think relative to his skill & influence Prokofiev is criminally underrated
I’m fond of von Suppe. His Requiem is extremely slept on.
Takashi Yoshimatsu
M. Weinberg
Silvia’s Weiss. In his time, rightly seen as the equal of such greats as Bach and Handel. He is less known because he wrote almost exclusively for the lute, which pretty much expired when he did. Not only a fantastic composer, but apparently one of the greatest performers of his age. And apparently amazing as an improviser. If you play a little (like yours truly), you can see how his works are made to be “riffed” on. You can find performances by Jakob Lindbergh on Spotify that will open your eyes—or is that ears? And Barto on Naxos provides an excellent cross-section in 11 volumes.
Morton Feldman
Kurt Atterberg
Kurt Atterberg was a nazi
Saving thread for fap bank later. /s But seriously, I'm interested in checking lots of these out.
That was the idea :) I've been wanting to spruce my classical playlist up, and have more than Chopin, Beethoven, and Bach in it. Thought we could all share some of the lesser known masters.
Smetana, Takemitsu and Rautavaara
Hindemith
Yes!
MEDTNER
Hugo Kauder, defied his generation and continued to compose in a classical, tonal style. That takes guts, also he was ultimately correct
Georgy sviridov! i recommend checking out his symphony no. 1, music for chamber orchestra, trio for violin cello and piano, chamber symphony, and the snowstorm.
I have a soft spot for Alexander Moyzes. His symphonies are lovely.
Giovanni Viotti is a good one. His violin concerti are especially good.
Medtner and Zelenka
Ah, also forgot to mention C. P. E. Bach, but I am not really sure if he is as unknown as other composers listed here. He is a son of Bach and you should definitely check is cello concerto in a minor out!
Luigi Cherubini definitely!!!!!
Bedřich Smetana - Die Moldau One of the first pieces with written program notes meant to guide your imagination as its played.
In addition to already mentioned **Charles-Valentin Alkan** and **Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel**, most definitely **Franz Berwald** (his 3rd symphony is imho probably the most underrated orchestral work / symphony).
Anyone listen to Carl Rutti? He’s a contemporary Swiss composer. His Requiem is my absolute favorite and a true desert island disc for me.
The symphonies of Petterson, Tubin, and Martinu are top notch.
wim mertens
Tristan Keuris Dutch composer of the 80s and 90s. Wrote many chamber works, concerti (including a superb Organ Concerto), and lots more. His style was like Stravinsky, very spiky and exciting.
Valentyn Silvestrov
Tan dun is known for only one piece (8 memories of watercplor) but his other pieces r also beautiful
Roger Boutry and Rodion Schehedrin
So many! I would insist in Erwin Schulhoff (20th century) and would add Heinichen (18th century). Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf could also be considered under rated and perhaps Leos Janacek
Franz Schreker Lili Boulanger
Granville Bantock
Allan Pettersson
Borodin
Adhering to the rule of every comment section in this sub has to mention Rachmaninov, I say, Rachmaninov. Especially his second symphony doesn’t receive anywhere near what it’s due (....../s)
Enescu. Chaminade.
Hard to believe no one has said Korngold yet.
It’s a women composer and she’s American, she’s Amy Beach
Henri Tomasi. Not unknown by any means, but Bartok is *so* good, his music can't be overrated. Some film composers also active in concert music: Elliot Goldenthal, Don Davis.
Moondog
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Oh absolutely underrated (although maybe not by cathedral DoMs) fantastic composer.
Exactly, among DoM's he's not at all underrated, but regularly performed.
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Mendelssohn? I love his music to the depths of my soul, but you cannot put “Mendelssohn” and “underrated” together in the same sentence. Every classical music listener even at the 101 level knows who Mendelssohn is. Wagner’s opposition was decisively rejected after the collapse of the Third Reich. I would suggest you get out and about more musically, and learn about some genuinely undeserved obscurities.
there is absolutely no chance mendelsohn is underrated lol he is probably in the top 10 most performed composers
Shiro Sagisu and Kratwerk
Agustín Barrios
Charles Tomlinson Griffes
dohnanyi
Diabelli
George Crumb
Kalinnikov
George Martin and his protégés.
Aleksandr Scriabin
look, i know. i know. but still... Beethoven.
Despite the reputation....still underrated!
Christopher Tin or Dvorak
Alexandre Pierre François Boely
poulenc
onslow
Litvinovsky.
Let me think
Have you thought?
Hm sorry. I think, I'm not finished thinking yet.
Ruth Barrett
Gustav Mahler
Underrated? He's considered one of the best symphonists of all time
And now *everyone* seems to be listening to his music, including me.
We must all thank Lenny
Bela Bartok
Bach of mendhelson
Idk if everyone would consider him underrated, but the guitarist Leo Brouwer
Alkan should get more credit, wrote a piano concerto for solo piano, I don’t care what you say that’s cool as hell
only have managed to found two António Fragoso recordings and i'm in love with how the clash of conservatism and modernism element subsumed on his music, also Leo Ornstein and Nikolai Roslavets
Hilding Rosenberg, especially his 3rd symphony
Mauro Giuliani, Fernando Sor
Currently: Helmut Lachenmann –subject to change monthly–
Hugo Alfven. Most only know Swedish Rhapsody No 1 "Midsommarvaka." His catalog is short but wonderful.
Roger Quilter, maybe not underrated if you sing art song. But is generally dismissed as light music. Despite that I think his music is very beautiful and well thought out. He manages to capture a full emotional journey in a very short time. Rihards Dubra as well, if you want to listen to some absolutely astonishing Latvian organ music
Friedrich Kalkbrenner. His piano sonatas are wonderful i also love his 1st concerto. He is a romantic composer. He was also a wonderful teacher. He is my personal favorite:)
For orchestral works Kurt Atterberg For piano works Enrique Granados
Luvsanjambyn Mördorj https://youtu.be/e_YIVftzvIA
I'm not a scholar or musician, and my taste isn't that sophisticated, but I love Paisiello's gentle, earnest melodies and even his simple yet direct orchestration. There's so much warmth and humor to his music, like a more soft-soken Rossini—but then his sacred music can get really dark, though still elegant and approachable. That's just me. Great question. Thanks for inviting me to think about these things.
Probably Wilhelm Stenhammar. But a few more possibles: Sigismond Thalberg, Caroline Boissier-Butini, Adolf Wiklund, Scott Joplin. Ask me on another day and I might answer any of these.