So, I'm listening to some classical music and a break comes on and the dj is speaking in German and for some reason it takes me back. I suppose this is part of personalizing the music. Anyway, it starts me to thinking about how common perception of Germans is of a rough people and I start thinking about classical music and the top composers and it's quickly evident that they make up the bulk of the best in classical composition. So, here I am, putting down some Composers and where they're from, and it'll quickly become evident that some of the loftiest names and the greatest number were German. Italy - Vivaldi, Rossini, Verdi Hungary - Liszt France - Debussy, Bizet Poland - Chopin Czech - Dvorak Russian - Tchaikovsky Norway - Grieg Austria - Mozart, Haydn Germany - Beethoven, Bach, Wagner, Strauss, Mendelssohn, Brahms. You could put a few others up there like (Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian?), but I thought I'd stick with who are widely recognized as the best and at some