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

[Dave2002]

Mozart
Beethoven
Bach
Brahms
Sibelius
Schubert
Tchaikovsky
Puccini

Toss up between Verdi and Puccini.
Blast - where's Dvorak gone?

Tomorrow might be different.

N opera composers ... ???

[Mr Pee]

Elgar
Wagner
Puccini
Brahms
Bruckner
Schubert
Vaughan-Williams
R.Strauss

[Hornspieler]

Eight I can totally live without !

Birtwistle
Lachenmann
Peter Maxwell Davies
Orff
Scharwenka
Stockhausen
Christopher Rouse
Glazunov

Substitute Eliot Carter for Glazunov and I am in total agreement.

HS

[Mr Pee]

Eight I can totally live without !

Birtwistle
Lachenmann
Peter Maxwell Davies
Orff
Scharwenka
Stockhausen
Christopher Rouse
Glazunov

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?9643-8-composers-you-can-live-without

[vinteuil]

Victoria
Monteverdi
Froberger
Bach
Scarlatti
Rameau
Haydn
Gluck
Chopin






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[slarty]

Beethoven
Wagner
Verdi
Chopin
Mozart
Schumann
De Falla
Richard Strauss

[Sir Velo]

If this were a Desert Island Disc style knockout then certain composers would have to be discarded on the grounds of causing a surfeit of melancholy.

However, assuming that some catastrophic event had occurred to rob the world of all the recordings and scores of every composer with the exception of eight, and these chosen purely on the grounds of the pleasure they currently give me, I would be forced to choose the following:

Handel
Beethoven
Chopin
Brahms
Debussy
Bartok
Walton
Ligeti

[teamsaint]

If this were a Desert Island Disc style knockout then certain composers would have to be discarded on the grounds of causing a surfeit of melancholy.

However, assuming that some catastrophic event had occurred to rob the world of all the recordings and scores of every composer with the exception of eight, and these chosen purely on the grounds of the pleasure they currently give me, I would be forced to choose the following:

Handel
Beethoven
Chopin
Brahms
Debussy
Bartok
Walton
Ligeti (to inject a little insanity into a sane world (or should that be sanity into an insane world?)

I think there is a difference, as you are suggesting, between a top 8, and the 8 one might take to a desert island, where balance might enter the equation.
I would probably add Chopin to a desert island selection, for instance.

I like the idea of adding a little insanity in too...

[ahinton]

Substitute Eliot Carter for Glazunov and I am in total agreement.

Never heard of him; is that T S Eliot Carter, perchance?...(!)...

[ahinton]

Working on your ahinton impression, teams?

Not for me to say, of course, but I don't actually take (or indeed work) my socks off for just anyone, you know!...

[Thropplenoggin]

Victoria
Monteverdi
Froberger
Bach
Scarlatti
Rameau
Haydn
Gluck
Chopin

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Lequel?

[Dave2002]

If this were a Desert Island Disc style knockout then certain composers would have to be discarded on the grounds of causing a surfeit of melancholy.

Sometimes DID people have a different agenda, IMO, particularly politicians! They're not all bad, e.g. Ken Clarke, who I think genuinely likes Jazz, but some have to have a sprinkling of different sorts of "culture", so will have Beethoven's 9th and the Arctic Monkeys and the Beatles. maybe not even their real choices, but what a spin doctor has advised - or am I really being far too cynical - more so than usual?

[Sir Velo]

Lequel?

I'll take a punt with the "Spanish" Scarlatti (close to my top 8 but in the end excluded on the grounds of insufficient variety - i.e. heard one heard 'em all )

[Sir Velo]

Sometimes DID people have a different agenda, IMO ..maybe not even their real choices, but what a spin doctor has advised - or am I really being far too cynical - more so than usual?

No, I don't think you're being unduly cynical at all Dave. There may even be one or two here setting out their manifesto.

[Nick Armstrong]

Not for me to say, of course, but I don't actually take (or indeed work) my socks off for just anyone, you know!...