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50 Greatest Composers

In 2019, BBC Music Magazine asked 174 composers to name who they thought were the greatest composers. Each was allowed to choose 5 composers, and the criteria for greatness was originality, impact, craftsmanship, and sheer enjoyability. Which composers made it on this list?
To help, their time period has been given. The time periods are early music, renaissance, baroque, classical, romantic, modern.
Impressionist counts as Modern
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First Letter of their Last Name
Time Period
Answer
B
Baroque
Johann Sebastian Bach
S
Modern
Igor Stravinsky
B
Classical/Romantic
Ludwig van Beethoven
M
Classical
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
D
Modern
Claude Debussy
L
Modern
Gyorgy Ligeti
M
Romantic
Gustav Mahler
W
Romantic
Richard Wagner
R
Modern
Maurice Ravel
M
Renaissance/Baroque
Claudio Monteverdi
B
Modern
Benjamin Britten
S
Romantic
Jean Sibelius
M
Modern
Olivier Messiaen
B
Modern
Bela Bartok
S
Modern
Dmitry Shostakovich
H
Classical
Joseph Haydn
S
Modern
Kaija Saariaho
B
Romantic
Johannes Brahms
R
Modern
Steve Reich
C
Romantic
Frederic Chopin
W
Modern
Ralph Vaughan Williams
S
Modern
Arnold Schoenberg
G
Renaissance
Carlo Gesualdo
J
Romantic/Modern
Leos Janáĉek
S
Classical/Romantic
Franz Schubert
First Letter of their Last Name
Time Period
Answer
G
Modern
George Gershwin
G
Modern
Philip Glass
I
Modern
Charles Ives
P
Modern
Sergei Prokofiev
L
Modern
Witold Lutoslawski
C
Modern
John Cage
T
Romantic
Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky
B
Romantic
Alban Berg
F
Modern
Morton Feldman
V
Modern
Edgar Varèse
W
Modern
Anton Webern
B
Renaissance
William Byrd
S
Romantic/Modern
Richard Strauss
V
Romantic
Giuseppe Verdi
E
Romantic/Modern
Edward Elgar
B
Modern
Harrison Birtwistle
K
Modern
Oliver Knussen
S
Modern
Stephen Sondheim
S
Modern
Karlheinz Stockhausen
S
Romantic/Modern
Erik Satie
T
Renaissance
Thomas Tallis
vB
Early Music
Hildegard von Bingen
B
Modern
Pierre Boulez
S
Romantic
Robert Schumann
R
Romantic
Sergei Rachmaninoff
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