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From: jho@ihuxn.UUCP (Yosi Hoshen)
Newsgroups: net.music.classical
Subject: Favorite Composer - Poll (final resultss)
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Date: Wed, 2-Jan-85 13:31:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  2 13:31:38 1985
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These are the final results to the question:

	     Who is your favorite composer? 


The following table tabulates preferences of 86 net.music.classical
respondents.

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Composer		Votes
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Bach J.S (1685-1750)	  20
Beethoven (1770-1827)	  10     
Mozart (1756-1791)	   8
Mahler (1860-1911)	   6
Bartok (1881-1945)  	   4
Vivaldi (1678-1741)	   4
Brahms (1833-1897)	   3
Shostakovich (1906-1975)   3
Chopin (1810-1849) 	   2
Copland	(1900- )	   2  
Stravinsky (1882-1972)     2
Zappa F.                   2
Bruckner (1824-1896) 	   1
Byrd W. (1543-1623)	   1 
Debussy (1862-1918)	   1
Hovhaness A. (1911- )      1
Koonce P. (*)		   1
Ravel (1875-1937)	   1
Saint-Saens (1835-1921)    1
Scarlatti D. (1685-1757)   1
Schubert (1797-1828)	   1
Schumann (1810-1856)	   1
Sibelius  (1865-1957)      1
Strauss R. (1864-1949)	   1
Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)	   1
Tippett M. (1905-  )       1
Wagner (1813-1883)	   1
Uncomitted (**)            5
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*Paul Koonce, graduate student of composition and Computer Music
at the University of California, San Diego (La Jolla).   
** Thoses netters who could not come with one favorite composer.
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Yosi Hoshen, Bell Laboratories
Naperville, Illinois, (312)-979-7321, Mail: ihnp4!ihuxn!jho