How much classical music do you have in your library?

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Bonus question: Which composer do you have the most music of?

[71 dB]

About 900 CDs. That's about 900 hours = 5-6 weeks.

Most music by Mozart, about 200 CDs worth. Then J.S.Bach (~150) and Elgar (~100).

[The new erato]

More than a years worth. Bach.

[Todd]

About 5000 discs, so probably around 30 weeks.  Beethoven accounts for perhaps 700-800 discs.  I stopped keeping accurate count last decade.

[North Star]

Around 10 weeks' worth. Beethoven & Bach, around ½ weeks of both. I don't think the options below 3 weeks are going to get many votes.

[The new erato]

About 5000 discs, so probably around 30 weeks.  Beethoven accounts for perhaps 700-800 discs.  I stopped keeping accurate count last decade.

So did I. Safest that way. But I count (or estimate) CDs in meters of shelf space and arrive at an estimate of the unfortunate truth that way. Beethoven, Handel and Haydn are next up after Bach (around 300 discs) I guess.

[Brian]

On my old computer, I believe my iTunes library accused me of having around 6 weeks of music. And this was excluding CDs I never added to my computer's hard drive. So... a lot.

[Karl Henning]

Not sure, exactly.  Vewwy woughly, I think near a year's worth.

[Sergeant Rock]

Counting CDs, LPs and cassettes about 500 days worth or 71.5 weeks.

Bonus question: Which composer do you have the most music of?

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Mahler

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Mahler

Sarge

We're working on the Henning.

[Sergeant Rock]

We're working on the Henning.

If only you'd been hired by a prince to compose fulltime, like Haydn, or started to compose while you were still in diapers, like Mozart, I'm sure I'd have as much Henning as I do those two Enlightenment dudes. Alas, we live in a different time.

Sarge

[Opus106]

If only you'd been hired by a prince to compose fulltime, like Haydn, or started to compose while you were still in diapers, like Mozart, I'm sure I'd have as much Henning as I do those two Enlightenment dudes. Alas, we live in a different time.

Sarge

Not Haydn. Recording and music reproduction rights would have been with Prince of the Commonwealth, per the contract. No website, no Sound Cloud, no Headquarters (How dare you have your own place on the interwebs, Herr Henning?).

[Papy Oli]

Just gone past the 1500 CDs recently, so roughly around 9 weeks then...  Main one is Mahler (around 120-150 CDS on top of my head) if I don't count the Bach Brilliant Box (155).


Was talking complete and utter b@ll@cks... that's just gone past 1300 CDs "only", so around 7-8 weeks worth. On the other hand, Mahler is nearly 250 CDs  0:) ... what was I thinking !! 

[springrite]

3000+ CDs, which makes for 18 weeks of music listening pleasure if I do not sleep for the entire duration.

My guess is I may have Bach the most.

[SonicMan46]

Well, I just updated my classical database after over 2 years and now have over 4000 CDs - about 24 weeks worth - composers w/ the most discs in my collection would be Bach first and Haydn second - own no LPs or cassettes - Dave

[kishnevi]

3000+ CDs, which makes for 18 weeks of music listening pleasure if I do not sleep for the entire duration.

My guess is I may have Bach the most.

Roughly the same for me (although I may actually be only approaching the 3000 mark, not past it).  Bach and Beethoven lap everyone else--Mahler, Mozart, Haydn, Vivaldi, Shostakovich would probably be the main players in the second pack.

[dyn]

2859 albums, 97 days, 214.78 GB according to itunes (note that i've opted to define multiple discs as part of the same "album", and not every "album" is a CD that has physically passed through my hands although most of them are)

the top 5 are apparently beethoven (42), bach (35), stockhausen (32), mozart (32) and cage (30) although for sheer volume of tracks the complete symphonies of haydn, counted as one album, are probably up there as well

[classicalgeek]

At the moment, 734 days, 11 hours, 40 minutes, 36 seconds.

This includes roughly 53 days of Beethoven, 40 days of Mozart, 38 days of J.S. Bach, and 26 days each of Mahler and Haydn.

[deafeninglysilent_1.61...]

Around 10 weeks' worth. Beethoven & Bach, around ½ weeks of both. I don't think the options below 3 weeks are going to get many votes.

I put them there just in case! 

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Just gone past the 1500 CDs recently, so roughly around 9 weeks then...  Main one is Mahler (around 120-150 CDS on top of my head) if I don't count the Bach Brilliant Box (155).


Was talking complete and utter b@ll@cks... that's just gone past 1300 CDs "only", so around 7-8 weeks worth. On the other hand, Mahler is nearly 250 CDs  0:) ... what was I thinking !! 

I'm considering the Bach Brilliant Box; would you recommend it? I believe that Brilliant Classics has several editions; the one I'm thinking about purchasing is the one here: http://www.amazon.com/Bach-Complete-Edition-Johann-Sebastian/dp/B0040T7CFS .