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Beethoven
Bach
Mozart
Haydn
Brahms
Schubert
Schumann
These first seven are comparably easy. Now it gets very difficult as there are about 10 or so for the last 3 spots.
Probably:
Mahler
Bartok
Handel
Dvorak, Chopin, Wagner and several others would be missed. But I listen to opera so rarely now, I think I could do without Wagner. The romantic piano music I'd have, could not quite make up for Chopin but almost and I'd rather not miss all the chamber, vocal, orchestral by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms. Similarly with Mendelssohn, Dvorak. There is lots of Handel I would not need but I am more likely to listen to shorter vocal music than opera (and even Messiah is like 2/3 of a typical Handel opera in length) and I really like some other pieces and listen to this more than to any other baroque besides Bach.
Bach
Mozart
Haydn
Brahms
Schubert
Schumann
These first seven are comparably easy. Now it gets very difficult as there are about 10 or so for the last 3 spots.
Probably:
Mahler
Bartok
Handel
Dvorak, Chopin, Wagner and several others would be missed. But I listen to opera so rarely now, I think I could do without Wagner. The romantic piano music I'd have, could not quite make up for Chopin but almost and I'd rather not miss all the chamber, vocal, orchestral by Schubert, Schumann, Brahms. Similarly with Mendelssohn, Dvorak. There is lots of Handel I would not need but I am more likely to listen to shorter vocal music than opera (and even Messiah is like 2/3 of a typical Handel opera in length) and I really like some other pieces and listen to this more than to any other baroque besides Bach.
