Which composer would you eliminate from history?

[Karl Henning]

Can we save the C# minor quartet and say it was written by somebody else?

Like, Mozart? 

[Cato]

Well, if I had to chose (sic), I would chose the anonymous journeyman who wrote

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhexf10MDd8

- a piece which all church music directors, including mine, seem to think is wonderful (or perhaps just easy).  Even the girl in the front row who starts off tapping her foot loses (or should that be looses?) interest about a minute in.  I just hope it's not Tallis on an off-day.

I have a similar hatred of a gallingly insipid "sacred song," and I mean a severe hatred, a hatred that makes me want to throw bricks at old ladies, toss puppies into puddles of tar, and boot orphans out of the orphanage on Christmas! 

https://www.youtube.com/v/54jXxagNjvU

So I would choose the musical criminal responsible for that monstrosity! 

Concerning Karl's nomination of Philip Glass:

I love you, Karl.

0:) Amen!  0:)

Besides the above, I would suggest...

Ferde Grofe'

[28Orot]

This is bizarre

[Ken B]

This is bizarre

It is.  Still if I must choose it's actually a very easy and clear choice. Schoenberg.

[Christo]

Van den Budenmayer

[Karl Henning]

It is.  Still if I must choose it's actually a very easy and clear choice. Schoenberg.

Noooooo!

[Christo]

https://www.youtube.com/v/JdxkVQy7QLM

[Ken B]

Noooooo!

More for what was done with his ideas than for his own work.

[Scion7]

Britten ... Stockhausen ...

[Karl Henning]

More for what was done with his ideas than for his own work.

His work needs to be saved from his more odious followers. There's a point.

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[Cato]

Noooooo!

Dear Ken B !

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P.S.

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[bhodges]

Some ideas to get you started:

http://www.youtube.com/v/Xf2CEqtOnkk

An amusing concept, presumably dreamed up by the OAE's marketing staff (and PS, the OAE is also pretty funny on Twitter), but too bad about poor Shostakovich, getting slammed - twice! The last word, from Tony Pay (clarinet), speculating on how history might have been altered if his father had one less cup of tea on the night Tony was conceived - hilarious and perceptive.

But I wouldn't eliminate any composer, even ones I don't listen to that often. Love Chopin's solo piano works; can't stand either of the piano concertos. Mozart's operas are extraordinary; don't need to hear the violin concertos again any time soon.

--Bruce

[28Orot]

Dear Ken B !

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P.S.

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That's an atonal way of saying No...

[aligreto]

The Strauss family....not Richard, you know.

[knight66]

Pachelbel, who should have been fired out of a cannon sans safety net.

Mike

[Madiel]

Van den Budenmayer

And ruin one of my favourite films? Never!

[Mirror Image]

Philip Glass

There, I said it.  That feels better.

Thanks for saying Glass. Thanks for saying Glass. Thanks for saying Glass...

[Mirror Image]

My pick is Stockhausen. He wasn't that important and his music is just...umm..well...it's just there, but yet some people think he's some kind of deity.

[Madiel]

Thanks for saying Glass. Thanks for saying Glass. Thanks for saying Glass...

*grin*

[nathanb]

My pick is Stockhausen. He wasn't that important and his music is just...umm..well...it's just there, but yet some people think he's some kind of deity.

Pfft. Good luck justifying that statement.