Most talented songwriters/composers of all time?

I think composers like people in Rock bands are good. One thing to look at however is that in Classical, the composers wrote music without the help of drugs, alcohol, etc. The Compositions are much more complex in terms of technicality, and they simply wrote much more frequently. Mozart wrote over 600 songs in his life. I doubt any Rock/Rap/etc. has accomplished that.

As much as i like rock/metal, I'd say that classical artists and jazz musicians are the most talented.

Its easy for a singer to give an image of something with words. but giving imagery through only musical notes, astounding! 

most people will say classical, but I would rather you write one song the quality of 600 songs, then 600 boring songs, yes technically it is impressive, but the pure amazing memorable blues rock songs defeat them so I say the wide genre of rock.mark4091

most people will say classical, but I would rather you write one song the quality of 600 songs, then 600 boring songs, yes technically it is impressive, but the pure amazing memorable blues rock songs defeat them so I say the wide genre of rock.mark4091

most people will say classical, but I would rather you write one song the quality of 600 songs, then 600 boring songs, yes technically it is impressive, but the pure amazing memorable blues rock songs defeat them so I say the wide genre of rock.mark4091

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There is not a single contribution in the entire Western popular music output - no matter how 'pure,' 'amazing' or 'memorable' - that can even begin to rival one of Mozart's 'boring' masterpieces, let alone his entire output when it comes to ingenuity and spontaneity. Sorry. There's no competition there whatsoever. The notion that a song that lasts a few minutes can be compared to the sophisticated balance between drama and music that Mozart achieved in his notable operas, for instance, is totally laughable, and I dare say the composers of those songs would be the first to admit that their work does not challenge Mozart's position in Western music history.

Clas sical music doesn't just win this contest - it utterly destroys the competition. Talent is required to create or perform complex music, not simplistic music. Clas sical composition demands much more from composers with respect to this complexity, and similarly, performance of such music requires much more from musicians, because the music demands a much greater refinement of sound production, and a vastly superior conception of musical form, without which the performance of a 40 minute solo piano sonata will indeed sound very, very tedious.  The only genre that can hope to match clas sical music is jazz, and that genre has not produced many masterworks comparable to clas sical tradition, though to be fair the genre is still relatively young.

You may like blues and rock more than clas sical, but that's small issue to reality. I'd wager that you, like most people in the world, know next to nothing about music with respect to either composition or performance.