Talk:List of composers by nationality

message: Wow, this looks like it could be really great really fast. Yanksox 22:06, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: I had noticed that every name except Smetana's were written with diacritical marks (First name Bedřich)—with permission especially of the article's creator, I would like to change that and a few other minor changes. (Such as link dates of births and deaths to the articles about those years.) —CliffHarris (-T|C-) 17:25, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I had copied each name from a different page in order to avoid retyping.  Feel free to change anything you see necessary; also, I will look on some other pages to make sure this style is consistent (i.e. the lists by era: Classical, Romantic, etc.)  Also, I would suggest only one link per year to be necessary; I have seen this done on other pages. Dafoeberezin3494 21:06, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Czech names 

message: Are only the names of major composers bolded? If so, Rachmaninov should also be—we wrote the 20th century's most famous piano concerto.  —$ΡЯΙNGεrαgђ (-C|ε|L|T|♪-) 16:30, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bold? 

message: I've added some more women and I've bolded some of the few people of color (notably Joplin - he wrote an pretty important opera.... and William Grant Still). This list needs to get to be more inclusive if it's to have any meaning.  Although, I personally could do without the composer of the theme music from the Simpsons....  
*The information nuggets are all pretty useless too.  You can't reduce a musical career into one line and make it have any meaning...Maybe all of the comments should be deleted, since pretty much everybody already knows that Pachebel wrote the Pachelbel Canon....Musikfabrik 09:21, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lists of Dead White Guys 

message: * Merriam-Webster = 
one that composes; especially : a person who writes music
* Cambridge Dictionary of American English =  A person who writes music
There is no distinction bectween the person writing and what is written.  So, someone who writes symphonies and someone who writes songs are both composers.
* That said, if Britney doesn't have a place on this list, then why does Cole Porter, Irving Berlin (who only wrote songs), Danny Elfman, Frank Zappa etc?  Is it because she's a woman? 
*Rethinking hierarchies such as "Classical" verses "popular", redefining gender bias and looking to describe things without making value judgements are all part of the encylopedic process.  Isn't saying that Britney isn't as good a composer as, for example, Danny Elfman creating a hierarchy and expressing a non-neutral point of view?  Since more people listen to Britney than listen to Arnold Schoenberg, doesn't she have cultural importance strictly from the amount of listeners she has? 
*  The point that this entry makes is that the idea of "composer" is not the property of the classical musical establishment and popular artists such as Spears can be thought of as "composers" according to the dictionary definition of the word. Musikfabrik 08:42, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's pretty obvious that in normal usage,  "composer" is short for "classical music composer" and "song writer" is used for the composers of popular modern music.  I think it's quite silly that every entry on this list repeats the word "composer" in the description for each person, too. :) It's not a very useful list.--Danny Rathjens 20:51, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of Composer 

message: I see the list of Italian composers is a long one. Still I think Albinoni deserves a spot on the main list, as his Adagio is very famous. 88.90.82.166 17:26, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Albinoni 

message: I was just wondering why there aren't any Cuban composers on this list. Antonio Machín, Beny Moré, Ernesto Lecuona, Leo Brouwer, Silvio Rodriguez or Pablo Milanés would be good representatives. 148.240.106.164 21:43, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cuba? 

message: GB is split up into entities like England and Scotland, but more federal countries like the US are not. I have great affinity for Scotland, but unless we bear flags for each Australian state, Chinese province, Mexican estado, and Russian oblast, etc. it is simply unequal to divide up only GB. Readers that need to know whether a particular composer was Scottish or English may follow the composer's link to do so. BTW, if we divided up every UN member state or similar, we should include the Northern Irish, and probably the Cornish, the Manx, and the Welsh. :)--Thecurran (talk) 01:09, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is GB split up? 

message: As the list stands now, with most of the major nations, like Germany, split off, and not linked, there is no Beethoven, Bach or Brahms. This is a list of composers, which is missing all the major composers! As it stands, this is a bit useless.87.113.61.208 (talk) 15:04, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Bach 

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message: What the f... is this then?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.246.71.122 (talk) 07:15, 1 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ok, so no Germany, no Bach, no Austria, no Mozart...