Musical reputations, and why, have been a source of innocent fascination to Stanford University's violin-playing Psychologist Paul Randolph Farnsworth. Last week he released the results of a poll he had taken of two very different groups of U.S. citizens: 1) 500 Stanford students, 2) learned members of the American Musicological Society. The question: "Who, named in order, are the greatest composers in the history of music?" The answers showed striking agreement as to the first four names—and then chaos:
Stanford Musicologists
1) Beethoven 1) Bach
2) Bach 2) Beethoven.
3) Wagner 3) Wagner...
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