Your five favourite composers, please

So it's the weekend and you're sitting there thinking you're home free. Well, maybe you are and maybe you aren't. If you have some favourite composers and you haven't yet sent them to me, then you aren't. What can you be thinking of?! You're leaving it perilously late.

Why not emulate Dave Weeden who has done his duty. Dave, it is true, did mildly complain in sending in his entry. He wrote:

Personally, I hate these ranking things, but I always seem to end up playing. Why do I play? I don't know. Because not playing seems too curmudgeonly. But this ranking business, it's like the speed dial episode of Seinfeld. Who has a fifth-favourite composer? And what about the poor sixth guy who doesn't get a look in?

I don't see what's so strange about having a fifth-favourite composer. It's no stranger than your eighth-favourite jazz pianist. And as for worrying about the composer coming in sixth - I wouldn't. It's a jungle out there.

But you see what Dave says: 'not playing seems too curmudgeonly'. Apart from that, there's the scientific benefit of the end result. So send 'em in. Your five favourite composers, please - in rank order (with ties permitted).