Your Favorite Composer, Ever, Period!

[Florestan]

You're scheduled for immediate deportation on a desert island. As a last favor, you're allowed to take with you the complete works of one single composer. You have 5 minutes to decide --- no second thoughts, no alternate choices allowed. Five minutes for one and only one composer. Name him / her and have a nice lifetime on the island!

My pick: Mozart.

[ritter]

Richard Wagner, of course. 

Took just something like 15 seconds...

[Florestan]

Richard Wagner, of course. 

Took just something like 15 seconds...

I saw it coming. 

[Harry]

Tchaikovsky, absolute!

[Brian]

Beethoven. My dude.

Easy one, really!

[Brahmsian]

In the present time, it is Bruckner.

[prémont]

J S Bach - who would doubt that?

[Gurn Blanston]

Haydn.

[bwv 1080]

Haydn.

Really? Never would have guessed

[bwv 1080]

You're scheduled for immediate deportation on a desert island. As a last favor, you're allowed to take with you the complete works of one single composer. You have 5 minutes to decide --- no second thoughts, no alternate choices allowed. Five minutes for one and only one composer. Name him / her and have a nice lifetime on the island!

My pick: Mozart.

Well definitely Webern then

[springrite]

Mahler

On my saner moments it would certainly be Bach, but those moments are now few and far between.

[Brian]

10 voters, 10 different composers so far!

[SymphonicAddict]

In terms of variety, works, affinity, tastes, I would say Dvorak, BUT I wouldn't consider him as my favorite composer ever.

[Gurn Blanston]

Really? Never would have guessed

[JBS]

You are asking me to pick between Bach and Mahler.
Suicide, I guess.

[springrite]

You are asking me to pick between Bach and Mahler.
Suicide, I guess.

I have the perfect solution for this: bi-polar!

[JBS]

I have the perfect solution for this: bi-polar!

No. Mahler for the mania, but Bach is not exactly depressing.

Multiple Personality Disorder, perhaps?

[Ken B]

You're scheduled for immediate deportation on a desert island. As a last favor, you're allowed to take with you the complete works of one single composer. You have 5 minutes to decide --- no second thoughts, no alternate choices allowed. Five minutes for one and only one composer. Name him / her and have a nice lifetime on the island!

My pick: Mozart.

5 minutes? Don't be ridiculous. I don't need 5 seconds. I knew my answer by the end of your first sentence. Bach.

[Ken B]

You are asking me to pick between Bach and Mahler.
Suicide, I guess.

Paul Suicide wrote a pretty good violin concerto. Or do you mean Hans Suicide, his cousin?

[bhodges]

Bartók

(with apologies to Ives, Bruckner, and Mahler)

--Bruce