Classical Top Five


If most will concede Beethoven, Bach, Mozart, and Brahms as " the given" top 4, who would you choose as number 5? 
jpwarren58
Audio2design .... let’s not let facts get in the way of Schubert’s constant axe grinding. He loves his moral outrage.



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I do like some Wagner quite a lot, but I just can't put him among my favorites. Part of the problem for me is that his stuff just goes on too long.  Eventually, a sameness creeps in.  There's also a pomposity that can rub me the wrong way.  Yeah, I do have my share of Wagner on the shelf. But apart from the Siegfried Idyll and the first side of Die Meistersinger I probably haven't put any Wagner on the stereo this century.
Wagner. One of the greatest composers, and inarguably the most influential since Beethoven.