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I'm reluctant to suggest anything as this site is so wonderful. I have one idea - which might be difficult to do technically. Wouldn't it be great if there were a composers A-Z where we could look up any composer and access all the postings where they are mentioned (which would then of course track their new releases) as well as any including there any website link that is dedicated to or has very good stuff on that composer.  Of course, we can use the search but this - when we already know about a composer rather than when we want to find ones we don't know. Just a thought, possibly not one others would want anyway (could be a poll question!?) and probably a lot of bother to get done. 

If they don't find any, the research report may resemble that book which went something like:

Chapter 18 - Elephants in Iceland

There are on elephants in Iceland.

Chapter 19

Mahler-List tends to discuss ... Mahler - except when members wander off to other (inevitably?) more well-known composers. (Well-known and Unsung composers aren't exactly a cross-over like classical/pop.) I did initiate a discussion there back in July 2002 on "Great works by little known composers". There's been only one Mahler-List discussion on Twitter Mahler - and that was started by ... me. It led to another on Great Thirds, which prompted me to bring here this discussion on Great Unsung Third Symphonies. Obviously our Unsung site is unique and fascinating - that's why we're all here! 

Stenhammar's would have been a Great Third Symphony but only a fragment remains. I recall he married a shrew who threw the manuscript into the fire during an argument (have I got this right?)

I'd liked to hear the little bit of Rott's 2nd that survives (probably even less  than Stenhammar's but originally there may have been more).

Sounds like this research is tightly focussed: did the Dresden uprising actually escalate to war? Anyway, whilst I can hardly get my brain around anything right now, let alone access the memory, I hope we come up with some names and that we are alerted when the work is published. I also hope it will touch on some aspects of impact of relocation, not simply a head count.

Thanks for all the suggestions: fantastic response.

It's actually called "Mahler-List", which can be joined at  http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mahler-list&A=1

Suggestions are at http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind0908c&L=mahler-list Look under "favorite thirds", which emerged from string (on the same page) called "Twittered Mahler" where some postings also contain suggestions.  They came up with:

Bach, Brandenburg, Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner, Copland, Dvorak, Enescu, Harris, Haydn, Honneger, Hovhaness, Liszt Symphonic Poem, Mendelssohn, Nielsen, Piston, Rachmaninov, Randall, Rautavaara, Rorem, Roussel, Saint-Saëns, Schmidt, Schubert, Schuman, Schumann, Scriabin, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Thompson, Vaughn Williams.

Oh dear, I've got the BIS set - where do you think this ranks among the competition? I haven't really got into this set and am unsure which are his best couple of symphonies. I'm even more unsure if Serebrier is sufficiently better to justify buying a second version given that I'm not yet convinced Glazunov is among my favourites.

I'm starting an offbeat project of listening to Third Symphonies as a programmed series over several days/weeks. Twenty suggestions have come in from Mahler-List members but I don't want to miss other good third symphonies which are less well known. Can you suggest any, and if possible, for a bonus point, supply the CD label/number, along with any comment about why you like it? 

Symphonisches Praeludium in C minor is almost certainly not by Hans Rott. It just doesn't sound like any of his other orchestral music that has been recorded (First Symphony in E, Suite in E, Orchestral Prelude in E, Prelude to Julius Cæsar, Pastorales Vorspiel, Symphony for String Orchestra). 

Pollock has recorded at least one CD - on CPO? Marco Polo? - of which I find Der letzte Gruss op198 especially good.  A cluster of composers with output akin to Strauss from around Habsburg or Germany and are well worth having on your shelves as is the Great Dane Lumbye, whose Dream Pictures is lovely.