Who is the Greatest (Not Favourite) Composer

From that list, I'd pick either Bach or Beethoven, but still, these are not all the composers in the world

No Strauss or Wagner? Puccini or Verdi? Handel?

I'm taking it you don't listen to opera much...

What about the composers that pre-dated this era?

Where the hell is Verdi?

Pitting composers against eachother? What the hell, what's the use of this?

You know who's the greatest composer? Anonymous. Nobody knows him, but if you hear his music you cry for years, because it's so amazing. In fact, Beethoven cried too, and they're all MOVED to TEARS by its beauty.

And he wrote his music using the UNIVAC I (lol).

What has this to do with repertoire? Bleh.

Hmmm... my pick isn't on the list...

I'd say Scriabin.

His early piano works brought a brand new way of voicing music into the genre... and his later works brought about an entirely new tonal system that no other composer has been able to match, or even imitate.

... Although I suppose my 2nd pick would have to be Bach. He was really the father of it all. Without the Well Tempered Clavier, Mozart's and Beethoven's works would have been nothing. Mozart only brought new polyphonic depth into his music because of the Well Tempered Clavier, and Beethoven also studied it himself...

... But Scriabin is still my #1 pick.

In my opinion, Bach was the greatest composer ever. Although my favorite composer is Bartok, Bach was a master of composition who's work in music has never been matched. His innovations in the genres that he worked with were incredible, and his mastery of counterpoint, along with his music in general, continue to influence composers today.

Bach. And I believe 43 people are incorrect.

uhhh...stravinsky please?

WHAT?!?

This is a little silly. You put Chopin on the list, yet no Debussy? You put Tchaikovsky on the list, yet no Stravinksy? And for the love of God, where is Verdi???

You seem to have forgotten those of the highest applicability to merit.

Of this list, I would say goodbye to Mendelssohn and say hello to Verdi and Stravinksy. That would be somewhat more complete.