Laurence Sherwood:

>The New York Times has an article entitled "Mahler and the Lessor Known
>Stars in His Universe" that is pertinent to this thread.  It discussers
>Joachim Raff, Robert Fuchs, Hans Rott, and Franz Schmidt, along with
>Zemlinsky, Volkmann, Bruch, and Richard Strauss.  ...

I may have misunderstood something here, but listing Richard Strauss among
the "underperformed" composers.. I'm not sure whether that's reasonable.

Jan