Let's play a little game

[greg]

1, 4, 5, 7, 8, 10, 13, 14, 15 ....nine great ones. The others don't count so he obeyed the law, technically 


My point exactly. God doesn't play games with the rule of nine.

Sarge

don't forget 11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Renfield]

don't forget 11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And actually, I'd also add the 6th to the list; but it could be just me.

[karlhenning]

And actually, I'd also add the 6th to the list; but it could be just me.

Not just you, no, not at all.

[scarpia]

don't forget 11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I find 11 easily forgotten.

[Sergeant Rock]

don't forget 11!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're still young, Greg, you'll get over it 

Sarge

[eyeresist]

Shostakovich 4-10 and that's IT. 

[Lethevich]

I am taking this far too seriously, but in light of Scarpia's good point and a few other good ideas, I revise mine to:

Mozart 5
Schubert 5
Chopin 5
Mahler 2
Berg 2
Puccini 1

None to Bruckner, as who knows how he would've wasted it making pointless revisions to other works or generally being slow as hell. Plus the 9th ends finely and interestingly as it is. None to Mendelssohn certainly, he died young but somehow managed to begin to decline in ability even in his last years.

[Pierre]

Today's assignments:

Holst: 2 (I would love to have heard the rest of the Symphony for which he wrote that wonderful scherzo)
Britten: 4 (just because he wrote wonderful music to the end of his life - String Quartet No. 3; 'A time there was...' - and but for his heart condition I think he'd have written so much more)
Mozart: 6 (As others have said, it would have been fascinating to see how he would have reacted to the post-French revolutionary years)
Bizet: 4 (If he'd lived to see the success of Carmen, perhaps his other works would have been left in better order and not frittered away irresponsibly by his widow)
Lili Boulanger: 4 (A most promising composer - would have loved to see what she might have done given a few more years)

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Anybody feel like adding more years to Janacek? He was just getting started when the Reaper came a-callin'.

7 more years for Janacek, for one more opera, two more string quartets, and one large-scale mass.

[DFO]

50 years to Joseph Hassid
50 years to Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga
30 years to Ginette Neveu
30 years to William Kapell
30 years to Andre Tchaikovsky
30 years to Michael Rabin
30 years to Dinu Lipatti
20 years to Julius Katchen
20 years to Simon Barer
20 years to Jacques Thibaud
20 years to Jean Casadesus
All of them died too soon.

[marvinbrown]

Anybody feel like adding more years to Janacek? He was just getting started when the Reaper came a-callin'.

7 more years for Janacek, for one more opera, two more string quartets, and one large-scale mass.

  Yes count me in!  I would have loved to hear one more opera from him! Although I would ask for a dark opera, dark in terms of musical texture- from the same sound world as Jenufa! Although I would not want to wish more of the kind of suffering that Janacek experienced in life that prompted him to compose Jenufa!

  marvin

[dirkronk]

  Yes count me in!  I would have loved to hear one more opera from him! Although I would ask for a dark opera, dark in terms of musical texture- from the same sound world as Jenufa! Although I would not want to wish more of the kind of suffering that Janacek experienced in life that prompted him to compose Jenufa!

  marvin

Operas? Meh. However, I'd LOVE to hear more chamber stuff from Janacek. Therefore, count me in for 5 years...I'll use the ones I was gonna give whoever would kick Rossini's butt. If Rossini was going to give us more, he had ample opportunity.

Dirk

[Dancing Divertimentian]

  Yes count me in!  I would have loved to hear one more opera from him! Although I would ask for a dark opera, dark in terms of musical texture- from the same sound world as Jenufa! Although I would not want to wish more of the kind of suffering that Janacek experienced in life that prompted him to compose Jenufa!

  marvin

I think you've got it! Something thick and brooding would be very nice.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Operas? Meh. However, I'd LOVE to hear more chamber stuff from Janacek. Therefore, count me in for 5 years...

Dirk

Sorry, pal, you've been outvoted...

[dirkronk]

Sorry, pal, you've been outvoted...

HEY!!!
I wuz robbed!

[power]

If we had to subtract the 20 from someone, Sibelius is the easy choice. 
Schubert   6
Mozart      5
Bizet        5
Mahler      1
Bruckner   1
Elgar        1
Puccini     1

[greg]

And actually, I'd also add the 6th to the list; but it could be just me.

Not just you! I've sorta made a habit of listening to this symphony when i have to go to work early- so i listen in the car (sometimes it's still dark out) and man, something about the nighttime just makes the symphony come out 5 times stronger!

Heck, I'd even add 12- what can i say, i like it despite the bad opinions!

You're still young, Greg, you'll get over it 

Sarge

hehehe you clever little...   

[jwinter]

I'm not terribly good at math, so I think I'll give all 20 years to Mozart, if only to hear what he might have composed in response to hearing the Eroica.

[Lethevich]

Bizet        5

Good choice

[Chaszz]

To be some kind of musical troll, I would give Brahms the full 20. I don't think he'd stop producing superb, refined music, and it'd be fascinating to see what he made of early modernism (and how he would react).

He stopped composing some years before he died, only coming out of retirement to add one or two new works to his ouevre. So perhaps he wouldn't use those 20 years to their full extent.