Three Composers for Your Dinner

[Florestan]

If you could invite three composers to your dinner, who would they be?

My list:

Mozart
Meyerbeer
Rossini


Because I want my dinner to be full of joie de vivre, attended by people who are balanced, light-hearted, funny bon vivants,  don't shy away from good food and good drink, are always up for a bon mot and do not think about their music as being a substitute for religion or philosophy. And if Meyerbeer was in generous mood enough, he might even pay the whole stuff. 

[Todd]

Clarice Assad, Isobel Waller-Bridge, and Freya Waley-Cohen.  The conversation would almost certainly prove most enjoyable.  The latter two could bring their more famous siblings along.  (The last could also bring her father, schedule permitting.) 

[LKB]

Anton Bruckner, in order to find out what he really wanted.

Sergei Prokofiev, in order to question him on various subjects relating to his ballets.

Franz Joseph Haydn, in order to overhear him talking shop with Prokofiev.

[Szykneij]

Alan Hovhannes - I enjoy his music and he lived nearby my home, so I he wouldn't have any trouble finding the place.

Robert Stoltz - He shared my interest in stamp collecting and I would find a composer/philatelist an interesting guest to converse with.

Frédéric Chopin - I don't think I've had a really good, authentic Polish meal since my father passed away.

If Peter Warlock crashes the party as an uninvited guest, he might provide some unique after-dinner excitement, but I'd keep him away from the stove.

[Karl Henning]

Alan Hovhannes - I enjoy his music and he lived nearby my home, so I he wouldn't have any trouble finding the place.

Robert Stoltz - He shared my interest in stamp collecting and I would find a composer/philatelist an interesting guess to converse with.

Frédéric Chopin - I don't think I've had a really good, authentic Polish meal since my father passed away.

If Peter Warlock crashes the party as an uninvited guest, he might provide some unique after-dinner excitement, but I'd keep him away from the stove.

Nice to see you, Tony!

[Szykneij]

Nice to see you, Tony!

Thanks! You can come to dinner, too!

[vandermolen]

VW

Sibelius (I'd need to get in a lot of alcohol)

Miaskovsky or Moeran

[Maestro267]

Thank goodness you weren't asking us to resort to cannibalism...

[Florestan]

Thank goodness you weren't asking us to resort to cannibalism...

 

[Florestan]

VW

Sibelius (I'd need to get in a lot of alcohol)

Miaskovsky or Moeran

If Moeran comes, you should double the quantity of alcohol. 

[vandermolen]

If Moeran comes, you should double the quantity of alcohol. 

Very true! 

[Brahmsian]

If Moeran comes, you should double the quantity of alcohol. 

And don't forget to invite the Moeran biographer who was on GMG.

[vandermolen]

And don't forget to invite the Moeran biographer who was on GMG.

Yes indeed 'Hot FX Man'

I think that VW would appreciate a nice plumb pudding!

[vandermolen]

I wonder how Malcolm Arnold, Malcolm Williamson and Allan Pettersson would get on.

[Brahmsian]

I haven't thought about the other two I would invite to dinner, but 100% I would invite Igor Stravinsky.

Just think he would be very interesting to listen to.

[foxandpeng]

Penderecki
Vasks
Tabakov

It would be fascinating to hear how their worldviews shape their music, and how that creates such individual beauty and creativity.

[Brahmsian]

Penderecki

He's on my potential invitation list. 

[Karl Henning]

Thank goodness you weren't asking us to resort to cannibalism...

No, couldn't make much headway into even one, thanks!

[vandermolen]

Penderecki
Vasks
Tabakov

It would be fascinating to hear how their worldviews shape their music, and how that creates such individual beauty and creativity.

It wouldn't surprise me if Christo of this forum has had dinner with Vasks

[Harry]

Those would be.
Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
Richard Arnell.
Johann Sebastian Bach.