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

[pastoralguy]

Mozart
Beethoven
Elgar
Sibelius
Shostakovich
Brahms
Tchaikovsky
Schubert

[vinteuil]

Bach
Rameau
Scarlatti
Haydn
Chopin
Gluck
Rossini
Monteverdi

[Beef Oven!]

Bach
Beethoven
Wagner
Bruckner
Tchaikovsky
Mahler
Ravel
Debussy

If 9, Mozart too
If 10, Mozart & Britten too

Why 8 and not 10? We're not on a desert island!

Bach
Beethoven
Wagner
Bruckner
Tchaikovsky
Mahler
Ravel
Stockhausen

Debussy on the bench (for now) to make way for Stockhausen, keeping to eight.

[cloughie]

For now and in no particular order:
Ravel
Debussy
Elgar
Vaughan Williams
Tchaikovsky
Mozart
Delius
Stravinsky

[MrGongGong]

Bach
Beethoven
Wagner
Bruckner
Tchaikovsky
Mahler
Ravel
Stockhausen

Debussy on the bench (for now) to make way for Stockhausen, keeping to eight.

Lucier
Ligeti
Merzbow
Otomo Yoshihide
Ikeda
Cage
Grisey
Wishart
Shiori Usui

(for today anyway )

[Beef Oven!]

Alternative list;

Schoenberg
Ligeti
Stockhausen
Scriabin
Nono
Maderna
Scelsi
Bernstein

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

Feldman
Schoenberg
Ligeti
Stockhausen
Scriabin
Nono
Maderna
Scelsi

Bernstein moved to the bench to make way for Feldman.

[slarty]

Beethoven
Wagner
Sibelius
Mozart
Debussy
Brahms
Verdi
Mahler

[Tony Halstead]

Haydn
Mozart
J.C. Bach
Mahler
Ravel
Hindemith
Delius
Vaughan Williams