Classical Top Five

If most will concede Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, and Brahms as " the given" top 4, who would you choose as number 5?

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jasonbourne52 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,863 posts 03-10-2021 at 12:39pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I agree with tlayman18 that Haydn deserved inclusion in the Top Five. He practically invented the Classical Symphony - 104 of them, eh!
jasonbourne52 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,863 posts 03-10-2021 at 12:43pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I read a book once on this very topic! J.S.Bach was at the top! And a very persuasive case indeed was made for him!
jasonbourne52 Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 2,863 posts 03-10-2021 at 12:48pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete My two favorite composers, Bruckner and Mahler, definitely appear in the next five! One looking backward to Bach, the other presaging the Twentieth Century and Shostakovich!
middlemass Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 903 posts 03-10-2021 at 12:58pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I don't concede anything. I respect those 4 pioneers but much as I've tried to appreciate them, they quite simply bore me and there's nothing I can do about that. 1 - Stravinksy 2 - Bartok 3 - Shostakovich 4 - Holst
jpwarren58 OP Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 619 posts 03-10-2021 at 03:25pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete 4 pioneers... Kin to saying the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse set the table for the barechested q'anon shaman.