5 Worst Composers Ever!!

[jut1972]

Such a fine line between being cheeky and plain ignorant, isn't it. :-)

Oh I know I'm ignorant.  But doesn't mean I'm wrong this time. 

[Karl Henning]

(* chortle *)

[Brahmsian]

My list:
Schumann, Wagner.

Others: Schoenberg, Webern and all late-romantic composers.

  I've in the ICU unit.  Severely wounded!! 

[Brahmsian]

1. Brahms, Beethoven
2. Tchaikovsky
3. Mozart
4. Schubert, Schumann, Shostakovich
5. Bruckner, Mahler

[Brian]

1. Brahms, Beethoven
2. Tchaikovsky
3. Mozart
4. Schubert, Schumann, Shostakovich
5. Bruckner, Mahler

I see a problem with your list!

[Brahmsian]

I see a problem with your list!

Ahh!  Ahh! Ahhhh!!! 

[Lisztianwagner]

My list:
Liszt, Schumann, Wagner.

But 5 is not enough. Others: Kagel, Schoenberg, Webern and all late-romantic composers.

[North Star]

It's not like he got Beethoven right, too   

[snyprrr]

Wow, it's a bloodbath here! Yikes! Every man for themselves!!

Karl Jenkins!! (and they tore him apart)

[dyn]

you guys have it all wrong, Mozart is clearly the worst composer ever

(at least in terms of business sense)

[Mirror Image]

John Tavener is pretty horrible.

[xochitl]

has anyone mentioned Max Richter?

the only one that makes me actively angry

[Mirror Image]

has anyone mentioned Max Richter?

the only one that makes me actively angry

Yeah, I never understood the attraction to this composer. There's just some music you never mess with and that's Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.

[TheGSMoeller]

Yeah, I never understood the attraction to this composer. There's just some music you never mess with and that's Vivaldi's The Four Seasons.

He's done more than messing with Vivaldi's Seasons. Richter makes for a good film score composer, or most of is music sounds that way, he has some pieces that I enjoy and others that seem to float aimlessly in space going nowhere.

And I'm one that did enjoy his Recomposed of the Seasons.

[TheGSMoeller]

John Tavener is pretty horrible.

He has great hair though.

[kishnevi]

John Tavener is pretty horrible.

I'm not enthused about much of what I've heard of Tavener, which is why I don't have that much of his work, but I would rate The Protecting Veil one of the greatest works of the 20th century.

[Mirror Image]

I'm not enthused about much of what I've heard of Tavener, which is why I don't have that much of his work, but I would rate The Protecting Veil one of the greatest works of the 20th century.

It's been awhile since I've heard this work. I don't recall enjoying/hating it or really having any opinion of it.

[71 dB]

has anyone mentioned Max Richter?

the only one that makes me actively angry

How angry on Richter scale? Maximally I guess?

[Karl Henning]

This thread is mis-titled, imo.  It should be called "5 composers you do not have the wherewithal to appreciate".

An angle with undeniable merit!

Well, if one takes the thread title literally, we can be pretty sure that whoever the "Five worst composers ever" are, they long ago disappeared into well deserved obscurity.

Except perhaps Stockhausen 

Certainly the five genuinely worst composers ever would never have emerged out of obscurity.

To play along with the thread anew, though . . . my nominees:

. . . well, since it's a while since I've sung in a choir whose director chose liberaly from the worst of what the thriving church music publication industry has to offer, I can only think of two off the top of my head (and honestly, shrink from the very thought of researching, and reliving the musical horror):

Pepper Choplin & John Rutter

[snyprrr]

An angle with undeniable merit!

Pepper Choplin & John Rutter[/font]

brrrr.... sit around kiddies, and let me tell you the 'orrible tale of... "When Rutter met Tav'ner"...