The Greatest [Top Ten Composers of all time revealed!]

NY Times Blog ^ | January 21, 2011 | ANTHONY TOMMASINI

[ConservativeDude]

I’d certainly stick Vivaldi in there, and a few other earlier composers, while axing Stravinsky”

Hmmmmmm.....I suppose this is a conservative website, after all.

But, wow, that’s ....an ...interesting substitution!

[libh8er]

Bach’s music is academic. It can be quite revealing if you are taking it apart note by note and using it for study.. but not much else in terms of listening enjoyment. Just my opinion. But as a composer, Mozart has no equal. There’s Mozart, and there’s everybody else.

[Lauren BaRecall]

I’m with you. Where is Handel?

Mozart should be first. And where is Rossini? This *is* a pathetic Liszt. (Where is Franz?)

[americanophile]

No Handel???

[libh8er]

With exceptions of course, such as the Partita no 3.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waxat-_tRH8

[ScaniaBoy]

Tchaikovsky... He’s gotta be on that list.

Agree.....and Handel.

A personal favourite of mine Felix Mendehlsson.....but probably not innovative enough to make the top ten.

[deadrock]

Best guitar composers:
1. Bach.
2. Page.

[Captain Jack Aubrey]

I am just relieved the VERDI is on the list. I am surprised Tchaikovsky is not. He did it all. Opera, ballet, orchestra, piano. His Nutcracker is some of the greatest music ever written. Too sentimental, I guess.

[InternetTuffGuy]

I’d toss Wagner off the list and put Mahler on. Toss Stravinsky and Bartok off and replace with Handel and Haydn.

[Brilliant]

What about John Lennon?

[hosepipe]

Like comparing apples, oranges, star fruit, pineapple, and prunes ugh.. plums.. and maybe raisins or grapes..

[Lauren BaRecall]

Then you must have never heard Fernandino Carulli.

[ConservativeDude]

All:

The video accompanying this article is very good...and only 7 minutes long. Very well worth watching!

[rahbert]

No Prokofiev or Dvorak or Janacek?

[Third Person]

No Hayden, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, or Schumann? This list is a joke.

Bartok and Debussy make it? Please.

[deadrock]

Nothing new. Brilliant, but nothing new.

[Third Person]

Hayden=Haydn

[ConservativeDude]

Can Lennon really stand on his own...without McCartney and George Martin?

[FroggyTheGremlim]

I never saw a picture of Bartok. Funny, I expected him to look like Bela Lugosi.

[zerosix]

You beat me to his mention. He should be in the top 10 or at the very least top 15, leaving out Bartok, Stravinsky and other 20th Century composers.