Figures who stand at the cusp of two eras, and whose œuvres contain works representative of both, e.g. Monteverdi, Beethoven should be listed in both categories.
The A-Z nigation legend at the top begins to annoy, now that we he just under 5,000 composers listed there. Does anyone he a view on whether the letters of the alphabet with more than 200 composers listed under them (actually now half of the alphabet) should he optional links in the form of small subscripts to start further on in the list than the very start of the letter? For example, there are well over 400 composers listed under each of B and S; for some of these people, it’s quicker to jump to C or T and click on “previous 200” than starting at the right letter and hing to click “next 200” twice.
As it is, to reach over a third of the composers on the list (1420 of them, in fact) requires choosing a letter AND then clicking “next” or “previous”. I think a few users might appreciate being able to make the browsing of the category a little finer-grained.
The way I’m thinking the current nigation legend could be modified would be something like:
Top – A B e l r C i D e E F e …Apologies for displaying it thus, but superscripts don’t work here. (I might take this across to a sandbox over at the Wiki.)
Composer stats (total ~ 4940):
400+: B (535) S (484) 300–399: C (348) G (312) M (380) 200–299: D (226) F (218) H (287) K (230) L (280) P (247) R (255) W (218)
100–199: A (199) T (145) V (135) 25–99: E (80) J (64) N (97) O (44) Z (74) 0–25: I (20) Q (8) U (17) X (2) Y (21) Miscellaneous ‘composers’ gathered at top of list (14)
Cheers PML