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Anthony Tommasini's Top 10

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New York Times classical music critic Anthony Tommasini has done the impossible: rank the top 10 classical music composers in history. We talk with him about the criteria he used to compile the list. How did Bach get the number one slot, while composers Puccini and Haydn never even made the cut?

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Anthony Tommasini, author, pianist and chief classical music critic for the New York Times

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