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Name a Musician with the talent of Beethoven, Bach or any other of the great composers?

I challenge any consumer of modern commercial music to name even one contemporary musician who has the talent or the musical ability of any of the truly great composers.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I prefer dance music however heres the ones I would deem as 'great'

1. Giovanni da Palestrina 2. Claudio Monteverdi 3. Henry Purcell
4. Antonio Vivaldi 5. Jean-Philipe Rameau 6. Johann Sebastian Bach
7. George Frideric Handel 8. Christoph Gluck 9. Franz Joseph Haydn
10. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 11. Ludwig van Beethoven 12. Franz Schubert
13 . Karl Maria Von Weber 14. Gioacchino Rossini 15. Gaetano Donizetti
16. Hector Berlioz 17. Felix Mendelssohn 18. Frederic Chopin
19. Robert Schumann 20. Franz Liszt 21. Richard Wagner
22. Giuseppe Verdi 23. Cesar Franck 24. Johann Strauss
25. Johannes Brahms 26. Camille Saint-Saens 27. Georges Bizet
28. Modest Mussorgsk 29. Peter Tchaikovsky 30. Antonin Dvorak
31. Edvard Grieg 32. Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov 33. Gabriel Faurev
34. Giacomo Puccini 35. Gustav Mahler 36. Richard Strauss
37. Leos Janacek 38. Claude Debussy 39. Jean Sibelius
40. Ralph Vaughan Williams 41. Sergei Rachmaninoff 42. Arnold Schoenberg
43. Maurice Ravel 44. Manuel de Falla 45. Bela Bartok
46. Igor Stravinsky 47. Sergei Prokofiev 48. George Gershwin
49. Aaron Copland 50. Dmitri Shostakovich