100 Greatest Composers!!!

[mn dave]

From the folks who brought you the 100 Greatest Symphonies!

1. Ludwig Van Beethoven - 1770-1827
  2. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - 1756-1791
  3. Johann Sebastian Bach - 1685-1750
  4. Richard Wagner - 1813-1883
  5. Joseph Haydn - 1732-1809
  6. Johannes Brahms - 1833-1897
  7. Franz Schubert - 1797-1828
  8. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky - 1840-1893
  9. George Frideric Handel - 1685-1759
10. Igor Stravinsky - 1882-1971
11. Robert Schumann - 1810-1856
12. Frederic Chopin - 1810-1849
13. Felix Mendelssohn - 1809-1847
14. Claude Debussy - 1862-1918
15. Franz Liszt - 1811-1886
16. Antonin Dvorak - 1841-1904
17. Giuseppe Verdi - 1813-1901
18. Gustav Mahler - 1860-1911
19. Hector Berlioz - 1803-1869
20. Antonio Vivaldi - 1678-1741
21. Richard Strauss - 1864-1949
22. Serge Prokofiev - 1891-1953
23. Dmitri Shostakovich - 1906-1975
24. Béla Bartók - 1881-1945
25. Anton Bruckner - 1824-1896
26. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina - 1525-1594
27. Claudio Monteverdi - 1567-1643
28. Jean Sibelius - 1865-1957
29. Maurice Ravel - 1875-1937
30. Ralph Vaughan Williams - 1872-1958
31. Modest Mussorgsky - 1839-1881
32. Giacomo Puccini - 1858-1924
33. Henry Purcell - 1659-1695
34. Gioacchino Rossini - 1792-1868
35. Edward Elgar - 1857-1934
36. Sergei Rachmaninoff - 1873-1943
37. Camille Saint-Saëns - 1835-1921
38. Josquin Des Prez - c.1440-1521
39. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - 1844-1908
40. Carl Maria von Weber - 1786-1826
41. Jean-Philippe Rameau - 1683-1764
42. Jean-Baptiste Lully - 1632-1687
43. Gabriel Fauré - 1845-1924
44. Edvard Grieg - 1843-1907
45. Christoph Willibald Gluck - 1714-1787
46. Arnold Schoenberg - 1874-1951
47. Charles Ives - 1874-1954
48. Paul Hindemith - 1895-1963
49. Olivier Messiaen - 1908-1992
50. Aaron Copland - 1900-1990

   
51. Francois Couperin - 1668-1733
52. William Byrd - 1539-1623
53. Erik Satie - 1866-1925
54. Benjamin Britten - 1913-1976
55. Bedrick Smetana - 1824-1884
56. César Franck - 1822-1890
57. Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin - 1872-1915
58. Georges Bizet - 1838-1875
59. Domenico Scarlatti - 1685-1757
60. Georg Philipp Telemann - 1681-1767
61. Anton Webern - 1883-1945
62. Roland de Lassus - 1532-1594
63. George Gershwin - 1898-1937
64. Gaetano Donizetti - 1797-1848
65. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - 1714-1788
66. Archangelo Corelli - 1653-1713
67. Thomas Tallis - 1505-1585
68. Jules Massenet - 1842-1912
69. Johann Strauss II - 1825-1899
70. Leos Janácek - 1854-1928
71. Guillaume de Machaut - 1300-1377
72. Alban Berg - 1885-1935
73. Alexander Borodin - 1833-1887
74. Vincenzo Bellini - 1801-1835
75. Charles Gounod - 1818-1893
76. Francis Poulenc - 1899-1963
77. Giovanni Gabrieli - 1554-1612
78. Pérotin - 1160-1225
79. Heinrich Schütz - 1585-1672
80. John Cage - 1912-1992
81. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - 1710-1736
82. John Dowland - 1563-1626
83. Gustav Holst - 1874-1934
84. Dietrich Buxtehude - 1637-1707
85. Ottorino Respighi - 1879-1936
86. Guillaume Dufay - 1400-1474
87. Hugo Wolf - 1860-1903
88. Carl Nielsen - 1865-1931
89. William Walton - 1902-1983
90. Darius Milhaud - 1892-1974
91. Orlando Gibbons - 1583-1625
92. Giacomo Meyerbeer - 1791-1864
93. Samuel Barber - 1910-1981
94. Tomás Luis de Victoria - 1549-1611
95. Léonin - 1135-1201
96. Manuel de Falla - 1876-1946
97. Hildegard von Bingen - 1098-1179
98. Mikhail Glinka - 1804-1857
99. Alexander Glazunov - 1865-1936
100. Don Carlo Gesualdo - 1566-1613

**runs away**

[Brünnhilde forever]

Another tedious opinion poll? 

[Opus106]

Strauss II comes before Berg!

[mn dave]

Another tedious opinion poll? 

Oh dear me! 

[mn dave]

Strauss II comes before Berg!

The people have spoken!   0:)

[Opus106]

To the people:

[drogulus]

          Elgar beats Schoenberg! The triumph of Fascism is complete!!   
     

     

[mn dave]

I'd be happy with 1 through 33. 

[The new erato]

Not a bad list as such things go - but Liszt at 15?

[Norbeone]

What a shite ist.

[Dundonnell]

Well that's a succinct appraisal

[(poco) Sforzando]

no surprise but LOTS of excess baggage on that list...

Such as?

[(poco) Sforzando]

What a shite ist.

Actually, I don't think it's a shite ist at all. It recognizes there is music preceding Bach and following Ravel, and though there are a few dubious candidates as well as a few unfortunate omissions, it's about as good of its type (highly questionable in itself) as I've seen.

[The new erato]

Actually, I don't think it's a shite ist at all. It recognizes there is music preceding Bach and following Ravel, and though there are a few dubious candidates as well as a few unfortunate omissions, it's about as good of its type (highly questionable in itself) as I've seen.

My feelings exactly.

[Dundonnell]

Random comments then-

Schoenberg(46), Janacek(70) and Carl Nielsen(88)....all too low! Respighi(No.85) ahead of Nielsen??  Much as I love Respighi's music......!

Not included but should be- Honegger(much better composer than Milhaud(No.90), Martinu, and (even though I am not sympathetic to their music) Boulez, Carter and Lutoslawski

Hindemith too high at No.48....again, much as I admire Hindemith!

Walton lucky to make it at No. 89 over Tippett(not included)

Glazunov lucky to be in at No.99

[Dundonnell]

Oh!....and Havergal Brian, of course

[mn dave]

Random comments then-

Schoenberg(46), Janacek(70) and Carl Nielsen(88)....all too low! Respighi(No.85) ahead of Nielsen??  Much as I love Respighi's music......!

Not included but should be- Honegger(much better composer than Milhaud(No.90), Martinu, and (even though I am not sympathetic to their music) Boulez, Carter and Lutoslawski

Hindemith too high at No.48....again, much as I admire Hindemith!

Walton lucky to make it at No. 89 over Tippett(not included)

Glazunov lucky to be in at No.99

A GMG eccentric! 

[Opus106]

A GMG eccentric!

That's like a tautology, isn't it?


*runs and hides behind Mr. Dave*   

[mn dave]

That's like a tautology, isn't it?


*runs and hides behind Mr. Dave*   

Ha! 

[Kullervo]

34. Gioacchino Rossini - 1792-1868

88. Carl Nielsen - 1865-1931

Ha.