Composer's Choice For Greatest Musician!?

[Allan]

There are many different composers that we all enjoy to varying degrees.  If we could take all the great (or, shall we say, well known)  composers and ask them who their very favorite composer was, what would be the result?  My guess is.....Bach is the majority winner!

I will go with the composer's pick!   

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"...for Bach still holds good, and when I have edified myself sufficiently with Handel's common chords, I long for the precious dissonances of the Passion."
                           ---F. Liszt  (From the Letters of F. Liszt, vol. 2.)

[chopinisque]

Bach definitely.  They all seem to just want to write a set of preludes (and fugues) in every key a la Bach.

[steinwayguy]

I don't think there is any question it would be Bach. Now I just wonder who Bach regarded as the greatest composer...

[apion]

I don't think there is any question it would be Bach. Now I just wonder who Bach regarded as the greatest composer...

That's the problem.  I think Bach actually liked Vivaldi .....

[Radix]

I think that Rachmaninoff's was Medtner, and that Medtner's was Beethoven.

[musik_man]

That's the problem. I think Bach actually liked Vivaldi .....

Bach also had a much smaller selection of composers, so we can't blame him for that one.