Mike Leghorn wrote:

>Who were the greatest orchestrators?  I was amused to once hear Karl
>Haas say, as if it were fact, that the greatest orchestrators were
>Berlioz, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Ravel.  It seemed kind of ridiculous to
>me to pick those three and exclude so many others.  What about Tchaikovsky,
>Elgar, R.  Strauss, or Shostakovich (or even Rossini, Bizet, or Johanne
>Strauss Jr.)?

Or Respighi, (his orchestration of the Rachmaninoff Etude Tableux and
his own works like the Roman Trilogy) Dutilleux, Arthur Morton (who
orchestrated many of the finest film scores)...etc.

Karl