I've slept on this thread for too long, but I'd say my favorites come in three distinct categories.
"The Classics" (the ones that get people into library)
- Alan Hawkshaw
- Cedric King Palmer
- Dick Walter
- Frederic Bayco
- George Hormel
- Gerhard Narholz
- Gregor Narholz
- Gerhard Trede
- Hans Ehrlinger
- Hubert Clifford
- Ib Glindemann
- John Fox
- John Seely
- Johnny Hawksworth
- Keith Papworth
- Mladen Franko
- Ole Georg
- Richard Myhill
- Roger Roger
- Ronald Hanmer
- Sam Spence
- Syd Dale
- Trevor Duncan
- William Merrick Farran
"The New Age" (not necessarily New Age, just the big names of the 80s/90s/00s)
- Arch Bacon
- Armand Frydman
- Christian Poulet
- David "Wrong Way" Feldstein
- Eric Gemsa
- Georges Bodossian
- Greg Wardson
- James Harrington
- Jean-Paul Merkel
- Jim Jacobsen
- Joel Vandroogenbroeck
- Jonathan Merrill
- Larry Groupe
- Rick DiFonzo
- Rik Carter
- Ronnie Aspery
- Steve Donnelly
- Steve Everitt
- Steve Martin
- Thierry David
- Tom Blades
"The Inseperable Duos" (composers that almost always worked together)
- Andrew Blythe & Marten Joustra
- Chris Lang & Eric Cunningham
- Chris Many & Geoff Levin
- Daniel Darras & Christian Leroux
- Dolph Taylor & Russell Emanuel
- Dominique Guiot & Eric Mallet
- Howard Jones & Tim Shaxson
- Jean-Yves D'Angelo & Kamil Rustam
- Laurent Thierry-Mieg & Thierry Durbet
- Stéphane Joly & Eric Caspar
