Your Desert Island composer.

[Puma Cat]

Salieri, no, Palestrina....no, wait....Guilliaume de Machaut?

[jzzmusician]

Originally Posted by Cohibaman

Mozart

Hey, I'm serious here.

Frank Zappa covers rock, jazz, blues, classical, punk, big band and is a wonderful story teller. When I first went out on my own at age 19 I spent two years listening to pretty much just Zappa. Nothing else sounded normal.

At the ripe old age of 67 he's still on the playlist.

If we're limiting the conversation to only classical composers it would be either Steve Reich or Anton Webern.

- Bob

[tima]

Originally Posted by radio times

Your stuck on the island on you own, with a solar powered hi fi in the straw hut and the complete works of just the one composer. It's going to be a bit depressing so Shosty, Wagner and Beethoven might be a bit too much, and pure opera composers like Puccini ( in the main) and others might get a bit samey. The complete song cycle of Schubert might appeal, but you might not feel like songs after a while. Bach might get a bit samey too.All that precision might pall, but then you have the vocal work also, heavily choral though it is in it's nature. So for me it would have to be Mozart. He kinda did it all.

Try to keep your records out of the sun. With only solar power, unless you have a lot of batteries, you may be dynamically constrained so Shosty and Wagner are probably out. Mozart seems an obvious choice.

[tima]

Originally Posted by Antonmb

I’d say Mozart too. On the other hand, I could take Wagner: it would save me by motivating me to tear down the hut and fashion it into a raft to escape the music.

But Wagner would write the score to your escape. :-)

[Antonmb]

Originally Posted by tima

But Wagner would write the score to your escape. :-)

Der Ring des Aqualungen?

[SteveJ]

If the discussion is constrained to a Classical composer, then the answer is most certainly C. P. E. Bach.

[SCAudiophile]

Mahler
Shostakovich
Bruckner

[W9TR]

Originally Posted by jzzmusician

Hey, I'm serious here.

Frank Zappa covers rock, jazz, blues, classical, punk, big band and is a wonderful story teller. When I first went out on my own at age 19 I spent two years listening to pretty much just Zappa. Nothing else sounded normal.

At the ripe old age of 67 he's still on the playlist.

If we're limiting the conversation to only classical composers it would be either Steve Reich or Anton Webern.

- Bob

I’m with Bob. Zappa it is!

[Cohibaman]

Watch out where the Huskies go!

[W9TR]