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

[Barbirollians]

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

HS

More than happy to do so !

[MrGongGong]

Please note, sals!


Clarke

Michael or Jeremiah ?

[Beef Oven!]

Michael or Jeremiah ?

Very sexist. Had you not considered Rebecca? Don't women count? If you were the father of a female musician, you'd be outraged!

[MrGongGong]

Very sexist. Had you not considered Rebecca? Don't women count? If you were the father of a female musician, you'd be outraged!

I would , but those funny noises aren't really music are they ? (sorry Prof )

[ahinton]

Very sexist. Had you not considered Rebecca? Don't women count? If you were the father of a female musician, you'd be outraged!

Fair comments all - but it could have been James of that ilk anyway!...

[Richard Tarleton]

Dvorak appears to have three votes for on this thread and none against on the other one. Just about everyone else appears in both threads....What does this say about Dvorak? I should have included him in my 8, for the cello concerto, but who to leave off?

[EdgeleyRob]

Ok then, maybe this wasn't as easy as I thought:
Alkan
Beethoven
Chopin
Brahms
Liszt
Schumann
Schubert and
Franck

Not just me then !

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Fair comments all - but it could have been James of that ilk anyway!...

'Twas he, indeed. (The superb Rebecca Clarke sadly had to be excluded from a list of living composers on a technicality; Michael's Music I don't know )

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

By the way, Edgeley

BRING BACK THE RETRIEVER!

[Petrushka]

By the way, Edgeley

BRING BACK THE RETRIEVER!

[Barbirollians]

Dvorak - that's a hard one - difficult to decide between him and Chopin.

[remdataram]

Mahler
Schubert
Sibelius
Schubert
Beethoven
Dvorak
Liszt
Tchaikovsky

If only three then Beethoven, Schubert and Mahler.

[salymap]

Fair comments all - but it could have been James of that ilk

anyway!...

Just catching up with the posts after a day with family.

According to the BBCMM Dame Ethel Smyth is Composer of the Week from 4th November.

Were any women composers chosen? Not even Hilda Tablet ?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Were any women composers chosen?

I mentioned Rebecca Saunders: and she was in the first 8 of my "unlivable-without Living composers" list, too

[salymap]

I mentioned Rebecca Saunders: and she was in the first 8 of my "unlivable-without Living composers" list, too

Oh, sorry Ferney