100 Greatest Composers!!!

[(poco) Sforzando]

Wagner before Mendy?

Are you aight?

I would put Wagner before Mendy and I'm 61.

[Saul]

I would put Wagner before Mendy and I'm 61.

Well Mendelssohn composed great works from age 16 (octet)

Right your opposite...

Wagner by 16 was playing with his dolls...

[DavidW]

Well Mendelssohn composed great works from age 16 (octet)

Right your opposite...

Wagner by 16 was playing with his dolls...

Early bloomer doesn't make him greater dude.

[Saul]

Early bloomer doesn't make him greater dude.

L K into his later works...

[DavidW]

L K into his later works...

I have, I'm not saying that Mendelssohn is not great, I'm saying that he's not great-er than Wagner.

[Saul]

I have, I'm not saying that Mendelssohn is not great, I'm saying that he's not great-er than Wagner.

Just one line from this enchanting music puts Wagner in the back seat of the composers' bus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2_ElZkGum4

[(poco) Sforzando]

Just one line from this enchanting music puts Wagner in the back seat of the composers' bus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2_ElZkGum4

I'm sure there's room for Mendelssohn on the roof.

[Saul]

I'm sure there's room for Mendelssohn on the roof.

I know anyone would want to save himself from Wagner's stink...

[MN Dave]

The best thing Mendelssohn ever did was introduce Bach to the world, and for that we thank him.  0:)

[Saul]

That wasnt his best move...

[karlhenning]

Who's Mendelssohn?

[Saul]

Yes, Karl.

[Fortissimo]

hmmm.  Pretty sure Brahms and Tchaikovsky should be much higher on the list (although they are pretty high as it is). 

[mikkeljs]

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**

You forgot Allan Pettersson, he should be placed in the top 50.

Scriabin must be higher than Schoenberg.

Honestly I think that Chopin should be among top 3!

[abidoful]

J.S Bach
Beethoven
Mozart
Wagner
Sibelius
Haydn
Webern
Chopin
oh---this is impossible!

[karlhenning]

J.S Bach
Beethoven
Mozart
Wagner
Sibelius
Haydn
Webern
Chopin
oh---this is impossible!

Oh, but certainly those eight must be among the 100 greatest.

[abidoful]

Oh, but certainly those eight must be among the 100 greatest.

I guess---so many different ways to define GREAT! Funny about that; favorite v.s great. I really don't enjoy Webern and don't listen it much but he was great composer and a major influence on many post WW2 composers. So, of course he MUST be on the list!

[Verena]

very interesting list, among the changes I'd suggest are the following: Victoria, Mahler, Purcell, and Chopin belong into the top ten, and Handel and Schubert are among the top four 

[drogulus]

     That's a good list, since it has the names of 100 composers I've heard of, a necessary but not blah blah usw. I wouldn't change very much or the changes wouldn't mean very much or something like that.

     Let's see if I can muster some outrage:

     Carl Nielsen at #88? That's outrageous!!

     

[Mirror Image]

Lists like these are so trivial. In the long run, does it really matter who somebody thinks is the "greatest" composer? Music isn't a bloody competition people! It's about human expression. Everybody has something completely different to say. Whether we acknowledge their voice or not becomes a matter of personal taste.

I just have to laugh at this list because it's so stupid and juvenile.