For a quick Top Ten, fair enough. But...

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In Reply to: Another list of greatest composers posted by j c maxwell on April 15, 2022 at 18:09:04:

the writing about each composer is just awful. The author continually tries to be clever and profound, and the result is a slew of opinions that I mostly don't agree with. Examples are too frequent for me to bother to address them here. Everything is a mix of philosophical overreach and juvenile oversimplification. I can sum it up with this quote from the article:

"To figure out what makes classical music so alluring, you first have to define what it is." -- I don't agree with that, and the writer Tim Brinkhof doesn't do a good job trying, IMO. I also don't like that the entire article is written as if the gods of the third person were responsible for the facts placed before us..."according to various sources", "Some say", "Others prefer", "a distillation of various internet lists drawn up by authoritative sources" -- it just keeps going on and on.

I'll end it there.

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Topic - Another list of greatest composers - j c maxwell 18:09:04 04/15/22 (9)

I'd swap Ravel for Schubert - jimbill 14:23:20 04/18/22 (1)

Haydn, Sibelius, Bruckner, Mahler. And... Ravel? nt - tinear 15:27:29 04/18/22 (0)

Lots of apples-to-oranges here, i.e. composers that mostly - tinear 13:41:34 04/18/22 (0)

It'd hard to argue with Bach's being at the top of the list - Chris from Lafayette 11:16:54 04/16/22 (1)

St. Matthew in surround - pbarach 06:59:59 04/17/22 (0)

For a quick Top Ten, fair enough. But... - SE 04/16/2204:39:29 04/16/22 (0)

9 out of 10... - andy evans 02:04:21 04/16/22 (1)

I actually like it that the list has Tchaikovsky ahead of Brahms and Wagner - Chris from Lafayette 10:36:05 04/16/22 (0)

Lizst, Shostakovich, Berlioz .... ?? - John C. - Aussie 21:39:49 04/15/22 (0)

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For a quick Top Ten, fair enough. But... - SE 04/16/2204:39:29 04/16/22 (0)

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