Christopher Webber posed:
>
>>"Great" English composers?....

William Hong considered:
>>
>>Any short list which failed to find room for Tallis, Handel (mightiest of
>>all) Holst, Delius and Bax would fall at the first fence anyway.

>Handel would have been an obvious choice, but I think many folks
>interpreted the question as referring to native-born English composers.
>I haven't figured out if such a criterion automatically excludes someone
>from Scotland, Wales, Ireland, the Channel Islands, or the parts of France
>that Henry V or whomever claimed to reign over....

I think the unspoken assumption has it about right.

However, if you're going to bring up God for Harry, why not go back to Julius
Caesar? Then they are all, all of them, Roman composers.

John Dalmas (looking south from Hadrian's)
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