Who would be top of the Classical Music Popularity Charts? Here are some likely contenders:

1 Ludwig van Beethoven           ** 2 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart     ** 3 Johann Sebastian Bach 

4 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky  ** 5 Frederic Chopin    ** 6 Edward Elgar ** 7 Johannes Brahms

8 Richard Wagner            ** 9 Dmitri Shostakovich ** 10 George Frideric Handel

(c) 2008