Your No. 1 Composer

[Todd]

Beethoven.

[Bulldog]

My fallback position 

Sarge

I just want to be sure about this.  Should I mark you down for Haydn?

[Karl Henning]

Well, since Sarge has endorsed a single choice, and since I know that a banana is no use to a bulldog . . .

. . . and because selecting a wife is different, there's no need to forsake all composers else to cleave unto one alone . . .

I must say Stravinsky. His music was a seminal discovery for me early in my composing days.  I like the all-but-incredible variety through the course of his career, and yet the distinctive musical fingerprint throughout.  I like the rhythmic energy, the harmonic energy (which is a force, too), the wonderful colors of the scoring.

[Bulldog]

Well, since Sarge has endorsed a single choice, and since I know that a banana is no use to a bulldog . . .

. . . and because selecting a wife is different, there's no need to forsake all composers else to cleave unto one alone . . .

I must say Stravinsky. His music was a seminal discovery for me early in my composing days.  I like the all-but-incredible variety through the course of his career, and yet the distinctive musical fingerprint throughout.  I like the rhythmic energy, the harmonic energy (which is a force, too), the wonderful colors of the scoring.

Good job!  Thanks for going along with this thing.

[Leon]

An excellent and concise explanation.

Your choice of Bach would be among my "Top 3", which would be rounded out with my avatar.

[Sergeant Rock]

Come on, pick one of those three.

Heresy!




Sarge

[madaboutmahler]

Go with Mahler, Sarge!

[Karl Henning]

(* chortle *)

[Sergeant Rock]

I just want to be sure about this.  Should I mark you down for Haydn?

Well, he is my fallback position...but I'm not ready to retreat yet.

Sarge

[The new erato]

Beethoven. And mainly because of his chamber music and piano sonatas. JS Bach is no 2 though.

[bhodges]

Bartók, just based on frequency of listening. Bluebeard's Castle is one of my favorite operas, and other scores I could hear any day of the week are the Concerto for Orchestra, The Miraculous Mandarin, The Wooden Prince, the three piano concertos and many others. Add in his huge chamber music output - the six string quartets are among the 20th-century's greatest - and I'm sold.

In general, the 1920s through the 1940s are sort of my "baseline" - the period to which I gravitate most naturally - but there are many exceptions, most notably Bruckner and Mahler.

--Bruce

[Geo Dude]

This is a tough call for me.  Hard to pick between Bach and Brahms (my usual fallback)...but given how much Bach listening I've been doing lately and the fact that I haven't listened to Brahms in a couple of months, I'll choose Bach.

[marvinbrown]

  BRAHMS...... !

  marvin

[Karl Henning]

 Quote from: marvinbrown on Today at 04:43:50 PM

  BRAHMS...... !

 
Testify, Marvin! : )

[Sergeant Rock]

  BRAHMS...... !

  marvin

Sarge

[Lisztianwagner]

Richard Wagner.

[Ataraxia]

So far four people have the correct answer.

[marvinbrown]

Quote from: marvinbrown on Today at 04:43:50 PM

  BRAHMS...... !

 
Testify, Marvin! : )

  Followed by Stravinsky, Haydn, Handel and then Mendellsohn.......in that order.

  marvin

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

See avatar. For explanation: see eponymous thread... 


(Beethoven and Wagner are the two other, greater, composers I love most, but HB is my personal No. 1)

[Karl Henning]

 Quote from: MN Dave on Today at 04:59:23 PM

So far four people have

the correct my answer.
 
Corrected : )