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Well, as of today, January 1, 2009, the works of RVW are in the public domain. Unfortunately, most of the works are still listed as Non-PD and are, therefore, non-accessible. Would an admin please revise the status of these works?

The greatest composer ever? I think Bach.

My personal favorite? Ralph Vaughan Williams or Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.

First, I want to say I think that, if 500 people were to write a symphony each, there would be 500 different methods used--- everybody would write a symphony differently. There is no one way. Personally, I would follow the common symphonic form at least loosely, that is, in movements: 1st) Opening m...

I went to SMA and found all of my Noncommercial-licensed music there. They clearly went and copied it all off of IMSLP. However, it was all available to anyone regardless of membership. It looks like what they're doing, though despicable, is legal.