Schubert shock

If you haven't already done so (and would like to take part) head over to the New York Times and vote in their Top 10 Composers poll. At the present stage, it looks like this one will repeat the pattern of the normblog great composers poll of 2005, with Beethoven, Bach and Mozart neck and neck, boasting between 10 and 11 thousand votes each, while the fourth- and fifth-placed composers are only in the 6 thousands. I'm sorry to have to report, though, that the result I took to be authoritatively established by the earlier normblog poll - 'that Schubert is the world's fourth favourite composer' - has now been thrown into question. Schubert is coming eighth at the New York Times.