Favorite little known composers.

[dancer_rnb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Johnson

[DMB]

I don't know how you determine that someone is little known.

[munnki]

That's easy, DMB, if they're in my little black book - they're well-known
;)

[dancer_rnb]

I don't know how you determine that someone is little known.

It's how it was presented in the notes of the CD I bought many years ago.

"There are several reasons why the music of such an important figure has been virtually forgotten in the present day. Racism obviously played a part, as did a cultural inferiority complex which kept the sights of most American music historians on Europe for many years."

From the booklet with the CD.

Looks like the link isn't working for some reason.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Johnson

OK, that's better.

[Preno]

Looks like the link isn't working for some reason.That's because you're only supposed to enter the name of the article inside the WIKI tags, not the URL.

[David B]

Havergal Brian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havergal_Brian

I like what I've heard of Brian's music (I bought, some years ago, cassettes of his Gothic Symphony on the strength of seeing an interview with him in his old age in the course of a documentary about the Rex Foundation, which subsidised recording little known music)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_Foundation

Brian was a remarkable man, insofar as he wrote so many symphonies which were never performed in his lifetime, and an atheist to boot.

David

[Berthold]

Does this guy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Senfl) qualify?