100 Greatest Composers!!!

[Enkhbat Natsagdorj]

8. Tchaikovsky
14. Debussy

Wow, i like it

[Chrone]

No Weill? Joplin? Or any living composer?

[drogulus]

I agree on Respighi. Does anyone actually enjoy his music?

     I do. "Is there a reason I shouldn't?" _{[He asked blandly, knowing the sinister import of the question would be obvious...]}

     I've heard more of his work than the Roman trilogy. Recently I've been listening to Belkis, Queen of Sheba, Vetrate di chiesa (Church Windows) and the Ballata delle Gnomidi (Dance of the Gnomes). I saw a performance of his cantata Lauda per la Natività del Signore (Laud to the Nativity). I enjoy all of this music though I admit it isn't earth-shakingly advanced. I might not have room for Respighi in a top 100 list, though he would make it into a 100 20th-century composers list fairly easily.

[Wanderer]

Did you say "does anyone actually enjoy (Respighi's) music?"...??

The answer is 'YES'. Lots of people enjoy Respighi-some of them live here   I am one! Rich, colourful, dramatic, exciting, sensuous...Respighi's music is all of these. He was a masterly orchestrator(both of his own and other people's music). He was respected-indeed revered-in Italian musical circles. He was highly influential.

A resounding yes from me, as well.

Monodrama is a strange description for a play with two characters.

I was gonna say...

[mc ukrneal]

I wish these types of lists would at least be honest and say they are trying to give a broad cross-section of all composers. Here would be my changes:

Move to the end:
Bartock
Schoenberg (detest the music, understand the contribution)
Ives
Janacek
Berg
Resphigi

Delete:
Des Prez
Hindemith
Messiaen
Lassus
Machaut
Poulanc
Perotin
Cage
Milhaud
Leonin

Replace with:
Offenbach
Khachaturian
Coates
Grainger
Gliere
Minkus
Medtner
Lehar
Arensky
Stenhammar

[Kullervo]

Coates

Gloria Coates? Ahaha, seriously?

[mc ukrneal]

Gloria Coates? Ahaha, seriously?

Is there another one? I meant Eric Coates. Never met Gloria. 

[Kullervo]

Is there another one? I meant Eric Coates. Never met Gloria. 

Heh! It would have been strange if you disliked Schoenberg and Berg but somehow found Gloria Coates musical.

[Sorin Eushayson]

The top three look cool to me. 

However...

Handel, Mendelssohn, and Vivaldi behind Tchaikovsky and Wagner?  They must be mad!  Stark raving lunatics! 

[karlhenning]

Mendelssohn's got to be behind Wagner.

I mean: Wagner said so!

[Sorin Eushayson]

Mendelssohn's got to be behind Wagner.

I mean: Wagner said so!

Wagner said a lot of other things too... 

[Franco]

Most Opera is a waste of time. 

lol

I usually find myself disagreeing with you - but, this is the most disagree-worthy post so far.

[ChamberNut]

That's the only one I truly love as-a-whole, but it's more of a monodrama than an opera proper imo.

James!  I read this as, well....you know. 

[Dr. Dread]

Some of the composers on this list are quite good.

[karlhenning]

No Henning on that list. It's not to be taken seriously.

[zamyrabyrd]

No Henning on that list. It's not to be taken seriously.

Subejct for new thread:
"Which musicians have the biggest egos--performers or composers?"

[karlhenning]

Now, wait just the one minute which picks cotton, ma chère.  I don't mind sharing space on the list with 99 others!

[zamyrabyrd]

Now, wait just the one minute which picks cotton, ma chère.  I don't mind sharing space on the list with 99 others!

I wouldn't mind either as long as I'm not on the bottom of the list.

[ChamberNut]

Could a case be made for Boccherini on this list?

[Saul]

Wagner before Mendy?

Are you aight?