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I think this list is missing a very important choice: Schoenberg. Although many people find his music hard to listen to, his innovation definatly makes him one of the greatest. He was the person that liberated dissonance and broke the constraints of tonality. While many of these other composes have done influential things (beethoven espeically), none have done something so essential to their era as the creation of both acceptance of the taboo and a creation of an entire new system of music.
I vote for schoenberg.
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