Is this the top 10 classical composers ?

This is the New York Times's music critics take on the top 10, strange no Tchaikovsky or Handel but Debussy and Bartok instead.Stravinskys inclusion I find a bit odd, and Schubert too.No place for Rossini either.What do you think ?.


1 Bach
2 Beethoven
3 Mozart
4 Schubert
5 Debussy
6 Stravinsky
7 Brahms
8 Verdi
9 Wagner
10 Bartók