8 composers you can live without

[Guest]

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

I take the risk

Byrd
JSBach
Vivaldi
Handel
Mozart
J Strauss
Franck
ten Holt

all composers I do appreciate, but not enough I'm afraid

[Petrushka]

Vivaldi
Telemann
Britten
Delius
Verdi
Puccini
Donizetti
Rossini

As you can see I'm not much of a one for opera of the Italian variety and I could perfectly well live without any of these. Mind, Britten the composer of anything but the operas would make him a more difficult one to ignore. Ditto the Verdi Requiem which I adore.

[gurnemanz]

Good game

Franck (except violin Sonata)
Liszt
Handel
Grieg
Reger
Scriabin
Britten
Pfitzner

[Beef Oven!]

Delius
Bantock
Rubinstein
Myaskovsky
Balakirev
Rutter
John Williams
Andrew Lloyd Webber

[Vile Consort]

Mozart
Hummel
Scriabin
Lefébure-Wely
William Herschel
Reger
Telemann
Lully

[Barbirollians]

Birtwistle
Lachenmann
Peter Maxwell Davies
Orff
Scharwenka
Stockhausen
Christopher Rouse
Glazunov

[Pabmusic]

Sterndale Bennett
Holbrooke
Reinecke
Rubinstein
Macdowell
Fibich
Draeseke
Mackenzie

[Dave2002]

Ockeghem
Di Lassus
Delius
Mark Anthony Turnage
Thomas Ades
Scriabin
Zelenka
Webern

It's not always dislike though - could be indifference.

Now what we want is an "8 composers you really can't stand" thread.
I expect someone will start that up. There are in fact few that I can't stand,
though for a long while Delius might have topped that list. I could have trouble finding 8 for such a list.

[Mr Pee]

Berlioz
Verdi
Glass
Schoenberg
Lachenmann
Stockhausen
Cage
Orfffffffffff

[Mary Chambers]

This is easier than the 8 we couldn't live without.

Delius
Maxwell Davies
Puccini
Donizetti
Rutter (Does he count?)
Brahms
Wagner (Apologies, but I have tried!)
Glass

Also about 90% of Elgar and RVW.

[BBMmk2]

Maxwell Davies
Stockhausen
Harrison Birtwistle
Glazounov
Karl Jenkins
Glass
Lachenmann(yes!!¬!)
Mozart(dare I say his name!!)

[ahinton]

Ludwig van Ei******
Alvin Curran
Philip Glass
Igor Stravinsky (well, the vast majority of post-Petrushka Stravinsky, anyway)
Lord Lloyd Loom (a name for a readily identifiable person given to me by a composer colleague)
Hans-Joachim Hespos (I know that this might upset one member here, but it's not for want of trying on my part)
Louis Andriessen

...er...that's only 7; as I often think happens when a work by one composer on this list ends, "sorry - ran out of a lack of ideas"...

I do not seek to criticise the principle of this thread but it might be somewhat nail-biting waiting to see how soon it might be before one's own name ends up on it...

Ah, wait abit - Karl Jenkins, yes, that's who!

[Nick Armstrong]

Delius
Liszt
Tchaikovsky
Verdi
Donizetti
Vivaldi
Franck
Glass

Poor old Fred D's turning up often on this thread...

[Sir Velo]

Barrett
Hinton....

...er, only joking.

[Pabmusic]

Delius
Liszt
Tchaikovsky
Verdi
Donizetti
Vivaldi
Franck
Copland

Poor old Fred D's turning up often on this thread...

Yes he is (I have a friend who will be mortified).

Yet...i feel he deserves to.