Top Ten Most Underrated Composers

The Top Ten
1 Christoph Willibald Gluck
2 Alfredo Catalani
3 Antônio Carlos Gomes
4 Antonin Dvorak
5 Edvard Grieg
6 Anne Dudley
7 Joe Zawinul
8 Francesca Lebrun
9 Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor.

Underrated? He's incredibly famous!

10 Franz Liszt Franz Liszt was a prolific 19th-century Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor, music teacher, arranger, organist, philanthropist, author, nationalist and a Franciscan tertiary.
The Contenders
11 Franz Schubert Franz Peter Schubert (31 January 1797 – 19 November 1828) was an Austrian composer. Schubert died before his 32nd birthday, but was extremely prolific during his lifetime. His output consists of over six hundred secular vocal works, seven complete symphonies, sacred music, operas, incidental music and a large body of chamber and piano music. Appreciation of his music while he was alive was limited... read more
12 Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
13 Antonio Vivaldi
14 Felix Mendelssohn
15 Charles Ives
16 Johann Strauss II
17 Charles Martin Loeffler
18 Michael Jary
19 Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina
20 Maurice Ravel Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.
21 Diego Velazquez
22 Jan Dismas Zelenka
23 Sergei Prokofiev
24 Dmitri Shostakovich
25 Georg Philipp Telemann
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