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

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I tried to play along by just naming the eight living composers without whose work my own life would be immeasurably the poorer.

I got to thirteen.

[Petrushka]

I tried to play along by just naming the eight living composers without whose work my own life would be immeasurably the poorer.

I got to thirteen.

That's an interesting variant but it would have been far easier for me just a year ago. As it is I think I'd struggle to get half a dozen. Be interested to see your list.

[Beef Oven!]

Is that a statement of fact ? or opinion masquerading as fact ? (i'm sure you know what that means )

It's a universal, factually true statement, of a widely held and rarely disputed opinion.

[Alison]

That's an interesting variant but it would have been far easier for me just a year ago. As it is I think I'd struggle to get half a dozen. Be interested to see your list.

Beethoven
Mozart
Strauss R
Mahler
Bruckner
Tchaikovsky
Schubert
Brahms

Near misses for Messiaen and Strauss J

[robk]

I just had a count up of the number of composers in my collection and got to 350. I wouldn't want to be without any of them but if it came to the crunch current list would be:
Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Elgar
Mahler
Shostakovich
Sibelius
Tchaikovsky

[Suffolkcoastal]

This is hard though the first name is easy

Vaughan Williams
Sibelius
Copland
Roy Harris
Elgar
Barber
Holst
Puccini

with Hanson and Shostakovich on the bench

[EdgeleyRob]

This is hard though the first name is easy

Vaughan Williams
Sibelius
Copland
Roy Harris
Elgar
Barber
Holst
Puccini

with Hanson and Shostakovich on the bench

First name on my teamsheet too

[Serial_Apologist]

Mahler
Schoenberg
Debussy
Bartok
Vaughan Williams
Holst
Eisler
Stockhausen

[Alison]

Mr Holst doing rather well, isn't he?

[teamsaint]

First name on my teamsheet too

Safe pair of hands.

[Beef Oven!]

Alternative list;

Schoenberg
Ligeti
Stockhausen
Scriabin
Nono
Maderna
Scelsi
Bernstein

To be continued.....................

[Suffolkcoastal]

I expect my choice of Puccini in there may have raised a few eyebrows. I've absolutely adored his music since I was in my early teens.

I would have liked to add Arnold, JS Bach, Bax, Beethoven, Bernstein, Bliss, Borodin, Britten, Diamond, Glazunov, FJ Haydn, Holmboe, Howells, Martinu, Miaskovsky, Moeran, Piston, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Rautavaara, Rubbra, W Schuman, Sessions, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Tubin & Walton but that would be a sending off offence! At the current rate Verdi will be in there too, so enjoying listening to all his works currently, can't get Simon Boccanegra out of my head at the moment, the 1st and 3rd acts are absolutely superb.

Perhaps we should have 8 composers you can totally live without, but that will probably cause too many arguments.

[Barbirollians]

Mozart
Beethoven
Brahms
Schubert
Verdi
Mahler
Chopin
Elgar

Eight I can totally live without !

Birtwistle
Lachenmann
Peter Maxwell Davies
Orff
Scharwenka
Stockhausen
Christopher Rouse
Glazunov

[Pabmusic]

Assuming I lived on a Pacific island (which I do) and could only keep music by eight composers (which - thankfully - is not so), I'd choose:

RVW
Elgar
Finzi
Butterwoth (G.S.K.)
Suk
Sibelius
Barber
Borodin

[BBMmk2]

Revised list:-

Elgar
Byrd
Handel
Tchaikovslky
Rachmaninov
Shostakovich
Delius
RVW