Christopher Webber writes:

>In Germany of course, the vast majority of concert patrons (not of
>course including contributors to this list) know two things - that with
>the exception of Richard Strauss, music stopped in 1900; and that only
>German/Austrian composers ever wrote the stuff in the first place.  This
>naturally simplifies the options for German musical institutions.

This is entirely accurate, it says here, except that a large minority of
Germans/Austrians will countenance not only Johann Strauss, but also Robert
Stolz.  The greatest English composers were, of course, Haendel and Haydn
when they sojourned in England.

Denis Fodor