Music Man.

"Wouldn't you just die without Mahler" exclaimed Trish in "Educating Rita". Well, I don't know about that, but Mahler certainly speaks to you -if indeed he speaks to you at all - very much on an emotional level. And you could forgive him almost anything for writing the Adagietto from his 5th Symphony (although he never intended it to be played in the sombre, funereal style it so often is - he actually wrote it as a love song for his wife). His 8th Symphony has become known as The Symphony of a Thousand, which I always thought was hyperbole, but apparently at its premiere, and on several occasions subsequently, it has actually taken over a thousand musicians and singers to perform it. And poor Trish eventually found that there was indeed truth in what she said.