I can’t believe the NYTimes is making such a big deal about a bunch of dead white guys.
Lists, unfortunately...suck (except for Franz that is..) but seriously, there are soooo many that are defamed by not naming them.....most inexcusably Chopin..I like him better than Beethoven and Mozart by far. Rachmaninov, and Ravel are missing...there’s no Rimsky-Korsakov, or Villa-Lobos or Sibelius..it could go on and on.
Some that I’d rather see in the top ten instead of Stravinsky or Bartok would be Haydn, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and Miles Davis.
Absolutely demented. Bartok makes the cut but not Mahler. Where is Bruckner? Where is Haydn?? Stravinsky was great but debateable whether he deserves top 10.