Greatest Composers of All Time


I found this list that might be of interest to the minority of audiophiles that are actually interested in classical music.
Greatest Composers
chayro
JSBach
Beethoven
Mahler
Haydn
Mozart
Schubert
Shostakovich
Brahms
Schutz
Wagner

I could almost have listed Bach as 1-9 with LvB #10. The breadth, depth, beauty, and genius, and profundity of his works that survive is astonishing. No one save LvB approaches.
Tosta, not nearly as much as I once was, though I still listen
to perhaps 2-3 a week and have full sets of my faves, namely
Beethoven, Schubert, Haydn, Bartok. Shostakovich, Bartok and Villa Lobis .

I'm 78 and started record collecting about 50 years ago and for several decades chamber music was my main interest. Followed by periods when choral and then opera was my mainstay, but in
the last decade or so I've listened to Symphony more than anything else.
From what I've read this seems to be a reversal of the usual route most follow. Go figure.