A British Composer Poll

[mn dave]

Have at it. 0:)

[Lethevich]

Henry - The King's Ballad ftw! 0:)

[karlhenning]

Much of the time, and currently, RVW is my favorite British composer.  Most of the other candidates do not much contend with him (in my musical affections) . . . on another day, I might have voted for Britten.

[71 dB]

Elgar
Purcell
Finzi

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RVW & Walton perhaps too but I haven't explored their music enough.

[mn dave]

Elgar
Purcell
Finzi

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RVW & Walton perhaps too but I haven't explored their music enough.

Thanks for playing!

[Dundonnell]

I consider Vaughan Williams the greatest British composer and I have more music by him than any other composer in my collection.
I also, however, love the music of Havergal Brian, Edmund Rubbra and Robert Simpson.

and thanks for making this "British Composer" rather than "English Composer"

[Don]

RVW for me as well.

[mn dave]

I consider Vaughan Williams the greatest British composer and I have more music by him than any other composer in my collection.
I also, however, love the music of Havergal Brian, Edmund Rubbra and Robert Simpson.

Many here are symphonically minded, so I won't be surprised if VW sweeps aside the competition.

and thanks for making this "British Composer" rather than "English Composer"

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[bhodges]

Huge Britten fan myself, but Vaughan Williams might be a close second.

--Bruce

[71 dB]

Thanks for playing!

No problem except if Handel is included my list is actually:

Elgar
Handel
Purcell
Finzi

RVW seem to be very popular here. I wish I had heard more his music... 

[mn dave]

RVW seem to be very popular here. I wish I had heard more his music... 

I'm sure you can find some somewhere. 

[71 dB]

I'm sure you can find some somewhere. 

There isn't time for every composer, at least for now that my interest is in non-classical music (Kate Bush, Tangerine Dream, Dave Brubeck, etc.)

[mn dave]

There isn't time for every composer...

Tell me about it. 

[71 dB]

Tell me about it. 

Hah, last december I bought Ravel's complete orchestral works (Inbal) and I still haven't given it proper listening. I don't know if it's Ravel's music or the recording but I have hard time getting warm to the boxset! 

[Josquin des Prez]

You saw fit to put Dunstable on the list but not Tallis or Byrd? The heck?

[Josquin des Prez]

and thanks for making this "British Composer" rather than "English Composer"

Ho, i didn't know there was a difference.

[Christo]

Apart from my vote here for RVW, who's a class apart imo, my personal list would probably also include:

Frederick Delius
Havergal Brian
Frank Bridge
Arthur Bliss
Edmund Rubbra
Eugene Goossens
Ernest John Moeran
William Alwyn
Lennox Berkeley
Alan Rawsthorne
Michael Tippett
Malcolm Arnold
Richard Arnell
Alun Hoddinott

(Btw, interesting to learn that Gerald Finzi is in this shortlist, and Frederick Delius, William Walton, Michael Tippett, to mention a few names of better-known composers, aren't.)

[mn dave]

I see no Finzi.

[mn dave]

You saw fit to put Dunstable on the list but not Tallis or Byrd? The heck?

I actually didn't. I used a grouping from elsewhere on the internet.

[Maciek]

I see no Finzi.

Isn't he under the last heading?