Top 20 Most Performed Composers

Thats interesting. BTW this year - 2015 - is 150 years since the first birthday of Jean Sibelius. There will probably be more of his concerts this year than in an average year.

In other words he's 151 like rum.

Nobody expects the Russian composition!

Exactly. Symphony orchestras don't play Bach, because his music is scored for much smaller forces. Puccini wrote operas - same goes for Verdi, with the exception of his Requiem, which orchestras play rarely because of the huge forces involved. Chopin only has two piano concerti in the orchestra rep, and they aren't played frequently. For Schubert to be missing is a shame, but only a couple of his 9 symphonies are popular and therefore scheduled. Same with Debussy. Mahler, Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Rachmaninov have eternally popular symphonic and concerto repertoire, which is why they're on there. I suspect that because the instructions don't specify that this is orchestral performances only, people are just guessing famous Classical composers in general

Bach, and baroque music in general, is also less expressive and free-flowing, with more notes. Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart and Tchaikovsky all had much more musically demanding but technically less demanding music. Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Sibelius and Prokofiev also wrote popular violin concertos. Beethoven, Mozart, Mahler, Shostakovich, Dvořak, Haydn and Tchaikovsky had popular symphonies, while Wagner, Stravinsky and Strauss had famous operas. Bach has some famous concertos, but most of them can be played pretty similarly by an amateur and a professional, because of the lack of space for interpretation, where professionals shine.

you're too accommodating. They can just turn off the timer if they want to so bad.