Which composers of any period would you invite to dinner and why?

[ardcarp]

I'd not realised that Flat Earth Society membership was still running...

http://theflatearthsociety.org/cms/

Anyway:

At the round earth's imagined corners, blow
Your trumpets, Angels, and arise, arise
From death

(same guy who wrote stuff about bells tolling and all that)

[EdgeleyRob]

Of course,I'd forgotten about DSCH.

However I'd feel more at home talking Wolves with Elgar than Zenit St Petersburg with Shostakovich.

Apparently Michael Nyman supports QPR and Mark Anthony Turnage is an Arsenal fan.

I wonder how many other famous composers were/are football fans ?

[teamsaint]

Isaac Watts would have been a Saints fan, although its lyrics only with him, I think.

[Mary Chambers]

Apparently Michael Nyman supports QPR and Mark Anthony Turnage is an Arsenal fan.

I wonder how many other famous composers were/are football fans ?

Shostakovich!

[Boilk]

I'd invite 4 composers who (having been taught a common language in which to converse) would make for highly-opinionated but interesting debate .... Wagner, Mahler, Scriabin and Stravinsky (alas, Bruckner would be too docile in such company).

The whole thing would be filmed for a DVD release. I'd make sure there was a piano to hand too, with the DVD's bonus material being Scriabin playing a late sonata and Vers La Flamme.

[Sir Velo]

I wonder how many other famous composers were/are football fans ?

[Nick Armstrong]

I wonder how many other famous composers were/are football fans ?

Clearly Schubert and Brahms were Bolton and Hamilton fans respectively.

The Wanderers Fantasy and Academicals Festival Overture being the give-aways...

[Nick Armstrong]

Shostakovich!

See #43 above, Mary! been there, done that!

[teamsaint]

Clearly Schumann and Brahms were Bolton and Hamilton fans respectively.

The Wanderers Fantasy and Academicals Festival Overture being the give-aways...

how did he indicate its Bolton , and not wolves. Is there a cryptic musical clue?

[Nick Armstrong]

how did he indicate its Bolton, and not wolves.

You got me there.

[teamsaint]

You got me there.

I think there is a clue here

http://www.amazon.com/Schubert-String-Quartets-87-887/dp/B002LMKKPA/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1355171204&sr=1-3&keywords=schubert+wolf

[Lateralthinking1]

As we are allowed to use Tardis technology for our guest list, please may I project to the year 2125 (when we can safely assume all living composers to be, well, decomposed) and pick one from each of the four corners of the globe?

If you think you can carry the audience with you, fine, but if it all goes horribly wrong you will be the one speaking to our sponsors.

I'm learning things here. Gesualdo would be a great guest for a murder mystery evening. Shostakovich would only accept an invitation from those who have subscriptions to Sky.

I wonder if in the main composers tend to be talkers or listeners, deep thinkers or fitness fanatics, occasional golfers or experts in the martial arts, imbibers or vegans?

[EdgeleyRob]

Definitely Elgar rather than DSCH for footy chat.
He could sing us his Wolves song.

http://www.elgar.org/1queries.htm

[Serial_Apologist]

Definitely Elgar rather than DSCH for footy chat.
He could sing us his Wolves song.

http://www.elgar.org/1queries.htm

Wolverhampton's Wanderer then, not Schubert's.

[scottycelt]

Bruckner.

We'd both hate the very idea of organising/attending dinner-parties in the possible company of God-like figures such as Wagner, intellectuals like Mahler, and thorough incomprehensibles like Brahms, so we'd probably just decide to pop down to the local pub and get sloshed instead,