| IQ
| Person
| Musical Rankings
| Discussion
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| 1. | 
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170 |  Ludwig Beethoven
(1770-1827) |
| [RGM:18|1,310+] (Murray 4000:1|WM) (RBCC:2|275+) A classical musical genius; met with Goethe (see: Goethe and Beethoven); Otto Weininger (IQ:180|#106) died in the same room he did; ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#3) [3]; polls (2015) are split (Ѻ) as to whether Mozart or Beethoven was smarter; Giovetti (2011) top 10 Composers (#4) [4]; Plotkin (2011) top 10 Composers (#3) [4]; Tommasini (2011) top 10 Composers (#2). [4] |
| 2. | 
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175 |  Richard Wagner
(1813-1883) |
| (Cattell 1000:337) [RGM:98|1,310+] (Murray 4000:4|WM) (RBCC:13|275+) IQ estimate 175 (Ѻ); a semi-ranked “universal genius” (T.K. Seung, 2006); read Schopenhauer four times in 1853, which switched his mind from Feuerbachian atheism to an Schopenhauerian atheism; had a peculiar relationship (Ѻ) with Nietzsche (IQ:190|31); ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#4) [3]; Plotkin (2011) top 10 Composers (#8) [4]; Tommasini (2011) top 10 Composers (#9). [4] |
| 3. | 
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320 |  Wolfgang Mozart
(1756-1791) |
| (Cattell 1000:N/A) [RGM:8|1,310+] (Murray 4000:2|WM) (MG:3) (RBCC:3|275+) Austrian classical era composer; ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#2) [3]; Giovetti (2011) top 10 Composers (#3) [4]; Tommasini (2011) top 10 Composers (#3). [4] |
| 4. | 
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337 |  Johann Bach
(1685-1750) |
| [RGM:16|1,310+] (Murray 4000:3|WM) (RBCC:1|275+) ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#1) [3]; Giovetti (2011) top 10 Composers (#2) [4]; Plotkin (2011) top 10 Composers (#2) [4]; Tommasini (2011) top 10 Composers (#1). [4] |
| 5. |
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349 |  Johannes Brahms
(1883-1897) |
| [RGM:114|1,310+] (RBCC:7|275+) Cox 300 (Ѻ) missing genius (Robinson, 2010); ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#9) [3]; 500 geniuses cited (Ѻ) missing candidate (2017); Tommasini (2011) top 10 Composers (#7). [4] |
| 6. |
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350 |  Igor Stravinsky
(1882-1971) |
| [RGM:380|1,310+] (RBCC:22|275+); Giovetti (2011) top 10 Composers (#9) [4]; Tommasini (2011) top 10 Composers (#6). [4] |
| 7. |
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347 |  George Handel
(1685-1759) |
| [RGM:N/A|1,310+] (RBCC:9|275+) ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#14). [3] |
| 8. |
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355 |  Frederic Chopin
(1810-1849) |
| [RGM:110|1,310+] ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#7) [3]; a “Classical Composer” missing genius (2017) to the “Top 500 geniuses: 301-400” range [1]; Plotkin (2011) top 10 Composers (#6). [4] |
| 9. |
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365 |  Felix Mendelssohn
(1809-1847) |
| [RGM:N/A|1,310+] (RBCC:19|275+) Grandson of Moses Mendelssohn; student of Carl Zelter; performed for Goethe at age 12. |
| 10. |
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369 |  Franz Schubert
(1797-1828) |
| [RGM:132|1,310+] (RBCC:8|275+) Cox 300 (Ѻ) missing genius (Robinson, 2010); 500 geniuses cited (Ѻ) missing candidate (2017); ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#5) [3]; Giovetti (2011) top 10 Composers (#5) [4]; Plotkin (2011) top 10 Composers (#4) [4]; Tommasini (2011) top 10 Composers (#4). [4] |
| 11. |
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370 |  Giuseppe Verdi
(1813-1901) |
| [RGM:82|1,310+] (RBCC:16|275+) ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#10) [3]; Giovetti (2011) top 10 Composers (#6); [1]; Tommasini (2011) top 10 Composers (#8). [4] |
| 12. | 
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410 |  Peter Tchaikovsky
(1840-1893) |
| [RGM:62|1,310+] ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#12) [3]; Plotkin (2011) top 10 Composers (#9). [4] |
| 13. |
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411 |  Sergei Rachmaninov
(1873-1943) |
| [RGM:N/A|1,310+] ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#13). [3] |
| 14. |
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412 |  Hildegard von Bingen
(1098-1179) |
| [RGM:206|1,310+] Giovetti (2011) top 10 Composers (#1) [4]; a Mike Fuller (2014) smartest woman ever (Ѻ) (IQ:150+) candidate. |
| 15. |
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413 |  Hector Berlioz
(1803-1869) |
| [RGM:N/A|1,310+] HMS pioneer; a 2010 “Classical Composer” missing genius to the “Top 500 geniuses: 301-400” range [1]; Plotkin (2011) top 10 Composers (#4). [4] |
| 16. |
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425 |  Christoph Gluck
(1714-1787) |
| On his opera "Iphigénie en Tauride" (Iphigenia in Tauris) (1779) (Ѻ), a drama is ultimately based on the play Iphigenia in Tauris by the ancient Greek dramatist Euripides which deals with stories concerning the family of Agamemnon in the aftermath of the Trojan War, Friedrich Schiller (IQC 165) (1801) commented, in a letter to his friend Körner, "Never has so pure and lovely a music affected me, it is a world of harmony which presses directly to the soul and dissolves in sweet exalted melancholy." Richard Wagner (IQC 170) called him "the great Gluck". IQ gauged (Ѻ) by LePenseur (Dec 2017) at 160. |
| 17. |
| Gustav Mahler
(1860-1911) |
| ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#11) [3]; Giovetti (2011) top 10 Composers (#7). [4] |
| 18. |
| Claude Debussy
(1862-1918) |
| A 2017 “Classical Composer” missing genius to the “top 500 geniuses: 301-400” range [1]; Tommasini (2011) top 10 Composers (#5). [4] |
| 19. |
| Bela Bartok
(1881-1945) |
| A 2017 “Classical Composer” missing genius to the “Top 500 geniuses: 301-400” range [1]; Tommasini (2011) top 10 Composers (#10). [4] |
| 20. |
| Claudio Monteverdi
(1567-1643) |
| Plotkin (2011) top 10 Composers (#1). [4] |
| 21. |
| Robert Schumann
(1810-1856) |
| ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#6). [3] |
| 22. |
| Franz Liszt
(1811-1886) |
| ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#8). [3] |
| 23. |
| Arnold Schoenberg
(1874-1951) |
| A 2017 “Classical Composer” missing genius to the “Top 500 geniuses: 301-400” range. [1] |
| 24. |
| Dmitri Shostakovich
(1906-1975) |
| A 2017 “Classical Composer” missing genius to the “Top 500 geniuses: 301-400” range. [1] |
| 25. |
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595 |  Joseph Haydn
(1732-1809) |
| (Cattell 1000:300) [RGM:383|1,500+] (Murray 4000:5|WM) (Gottlieb 1000:396) (GMG:26) Austrian composer;
“There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.”
— Joseph Haydn (c.1790), Publication (Ѻ)
aka “Joseph Haydn” (Sirius Pops, 2020); ListVerse (2009) top 15 Composer (#15). [3] |
| 26. |
| Charles Ives
(1874-1954) |
| Giovetti (2011) top 10 Composers (#8). [4] |
| 27. |
| Richard Strauss
(1864-1949) |
| Plotkin (2011) top 10 Composers (#10). [4] |
| 28. |
| David Lang
(1957-) |
| Giovetti (2011) top 10 Composers (#10). [4] |
