The Eight Composers you couldn't Live Without. 8 only, no additions,no other rules

[Bryn]

It was a partnership of equals.

Or, " I don't know", as some people put it.

They reused that concept in "Earn enough for us", in time honoured tradition. If its good enough for JSB.....

No, no. It was definitely just one of them, in an early television interview with Janet Street-Porter. She asked about the pauses in the song, and got the reply, "I like the holes". I just can't remember whether it was Andy or Colin who came up with that response. I went to Virgin in Oxford Street to buy the White Music LP and 3D EP the very next day.

[french frank]

Possibly:

Machaut
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Debussy
Sibelius
Stravinsky

[AjAjAjH]

Bruckner
Brahms
Dvorak
Elgar
Mahler
Sibelius
Shostakovich
Tchaikovsky

[MrGongGong]

I was going to start a
"Eight composers the world could do without"
Thread

but there's only so many times that you can read the word Ei........ before reaching for the bottle

SO as you were ........

[teamsaint]

No, no. It was definitely just one of them, in an early television interview with Janet Street-Porter. She asked about the pauses in the song, and got the reply, "I like the holes". I just can't remember whether it was Andy or Colin who came up with that response. I went to Virgin in Oxford Street to buy the White Music LP and 3D EP the very next day.

don't recall !! sounds more like Andy P, at a guess.

Funny really. If we are allowed 8, would definitely pick them ahead of Mozart.
But not if we could only have one.

Holes in my thinking, i'm sure.

[teamsaint]

I was going to start a
"Eight composers the world could do without"
Thread

but there's only so many times that you can read the word Ei........ before reaching for the bottle

SO as you were ........

Nice solidarity there, Gongers.

Don't musicians have a union......

[MrGongGong]

Nice solidarity there, Gongers.

Don't musicians have a union......

They did
but it's now merged with the Spinal Tap appreciation society

[EdgeleyRob]

RVW
Elgar
Britten
Howells
Alkan
Mendelssohn
Shostakovich
Arnold

Myaskovsky,Weinberg (they wouldn't have been on my radar a year ago) and Alwyn knocking on the door.

[antongould]

As I may, or indeed may not, have the privilege of being appointed bean counter .....it would seem from the OP's own post that Bach and Beethoven are not the Bible and Willie S of this DID...so rules is, as much as they ever are, rules

Beethoven
Bach J S
Brahms
Mozart
Bruckner
Shostakovich
Mahler
Vaughan Williams
Simon
Schubert .....

Rules is rules he says and picks 10.......Simon and Schubert to the bench then!!

[AmpH]

Assuming Bach and Beethoven are given to everyone .....

First and forever there is

Haydn ...... then , in no particular order

Nielsen
Brahms
Chausson
Feldman
Bartok
Szymanowski
Vaughan Williams

with Holmboe , Stanford , Rubbra , Faure , Victoria etc etc etc bubbling under.

[MrGongGong]

Assuming Bach and Beethoven are given to everyone .....

why ?

[Hitch]

This is fiendishly difficult. My gut instinct:

Bach
Beethoven
Mozart
Haydn
R. Strauss
Brahms
Purcell
Shostakovich

[AmpH]

why ?

cos they are brilliant and I said so !

[MrGongGong]

cos they are brilliant and I said so !

Are they better than Supertramp ?

[Beef Oven!]

why ?

It's like Shakespeare and a Bible, goes without saying, no explanation required.