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We've been asking you to weigh in on your top 10 composers (find the polling place at 

, open till Friday afternoon).  If the redoubtable writer and critic (and music lover) H.L. Mencken hadn't lived and died in a staunchly analog age, he would have logged on and let us know (with trenchant notes) what he thought.

I can't presume to report how Mencken would have voted numbers 10 to 2, but he gave strong hints about #1.

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Bill Morelock

Henry Louis Mencken, born in Baltimore in 1880, was a critic, a lexicographer, and master of the aphorism.  Mencken also devoted himself to music, as a writer and a good pianist.  And he turned his talent for distilling wisdom and character towards the great composers.


The Short Version: Mencken's Number One

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