8 composers you can live without

[remdataram]

... even Bruckner's Ninth Symphony, where (for me at any rate) he finally came into his own.

Even Bruckner's Ninth I'm afraid. You have prompted me to give it a few further outings, along with the 4th perhaps. I'm certain I'm missing something, I must be the only Mahler lover who can't get on with Bruckner.

[Suffolkcoastal]

I'm the opposite I'm a great Bruckner admirer, but simply cannot get on with Mahler.

[Thropplenoggin]

Bauer
Byrd
Wolf
Howells
Puts
Orff
Bull
Schütt

[Mary Chambers]

I can live so easily without Dvorak that I forgot entirely to put him on my list. Too late now.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Puts Orff Bull Schütt

[Petrushka]

Puts
Orff
Bull
Schütt

Please say this wasn't deliberate.

[Thropplenoggin]

Please say this wasn't deliberate.

The product of insomnia (thanks, cheap Burgundy (some gift!)) No one spotted 'Bauer Byrd' or 'Wolf Howells'.

[Petrushka]

'Wolf Howells'.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No one spotted 'Bauer Byrd' or 'Wolf Howells'.

No - straight to the smut; that's me.

[scottycelt]

I'm the opposite I'm a great Bruckner admirer, but simply cannot get on with Mahler.

Me too .. I'm not just a Bruckner admirer but a complete and utter fanatic. Mahler does very little for me, I'm afraid.

I also know one or two rabid Mahlerians who just don't 'get' Bruckner.

The only connection between the two that I can see is that they knew and liked each other and the young M. allegedly attended one of B.'s music lectures (oh to have been a fly on that lecture-room wall!!), though the influence of Bruckner seems obvious to me in Mahler 9 which, therefore unsurprisingly, is the one Mahler symphony that really grips my attention.

[Demetrius]

An interesting phenomenon is apparent. Not a single poster seems to share my views on:

Sterndale Bennett
Holbrooke
Reinecke
Rubinstein
Macdowell
Fibich
Draeseke
Mackenzie

Does this mean that I'm the only person to have listened to their music in the last x years? Or that their music is so banal that it doesn't even merit consideration? Or that theirs is music of real worth and I'm just not getting it?

Like what I heard of Sterndale Bennett, like Draeseke; Fibich 2nd Symphony bored me to death.

8 Composers I don't like/Don't feel like trying again?
Prokoviev (the living one with the turntables)
Fibich (thanks for reminding me)
Wagner
Rott
the composer of that "Froms" thingy from a few last nights before that sounded roughly like a disorganised trainstation

...
Glass
...

two more ... will think about it and add them later.

[Suffolkcoastal]

Like what I heard of Sterndale Bennett, like Draeseke; Fibich 2nd Symphony bored me to death.

8 Composers I don't like/Don't feel like trying again?
Prokoviev (the living one with the turntables)
Fibich (thanks for reminding me)
Wagner
Rott
the composer of that "Froms" thingy from a few last nights before that sounded roughly like a disorganised trainstation

...
Glass
...

two more ... will think about it and add them later.

I've got music by all of them in my collection, I actually find Draeseke quite a good composer and Fibich's 3rd Symphony isn't bad. MacDowell's music is pleasant if nothing special the same with Reinecke though he was quite conservative. Rubinstein's later work are much better than his overblown post Mendelssohnian earlier ones. Sterndale Bennett is again pleasant, Cipriani Potter though was a much finer composer and is for my money the best British composer by far of the the first half of the 19th century. As for Mackenzie, definitely inferior to Parry and Stanford and lacks a distinct personality but certainly not awful. Would probably agree about Holbrooke not found much of interest in his music so far.

[Roehre]

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The only connection between the two that I can see is that they knew and liked each other and the young M. allegedly attended one of B.'s music lectures (oh to have been a fly on that lecture-room wall!!), though the influence of Bruckner seems obvious to me in Mahler 9 which, therefore unsurprisingly, is the one Mahler symphony that really grips my attention.

There are (at least) two other musical ones:
The Symphonisches Präludium which is attributed to Mahler, according to the latest research, might be a piece by Bruckner.
The trio of the scherzo in Bruckner's Romantic symphony (1878 and later versions) is revisited in Mahler's Resurrection.

The very first time Mahler's name appeared in print was as the arranger of the piano-reduction of Bruckner's Third symphony, btw.

[Roehre]

I'm the opposite I'm a great Bruckner admirer, but simply cannot get on with Mahler.

I can get on with both of them, a bit more Mahler than Bruckner perhaps, but among my friends there is quite a number either/ors.

[teamsaint]

I can get on with both of them, a bit more Mahler than Bruckner perhaps, but among my friends there is quite a number either/ors.

You must go to a classy pub, Roehre !
Neither are really popular topics of conversation with my mates.