The Top 10 Geniuses/Legends of All Music

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MN Dave

October 09, 2010, 05:14:42 AM
Who are they? Doesn't have to be classical across the board but it can be if that's what you believe.

Bogey

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October 09, 2010, 05:22:52 AM
Show I missed a few, Dave....cool thread.

Bach
Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven

Louis Armstrong
Miles Davis
John Coltrane

The Beatles (as a unit)
Brian Wilson (Beach Boys)

Jerry Goldsmith
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MN Dave

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October 09, 2010, 05:24:21 AM
Damn fine list. Except for Brian Wilson. Oh, I suppose it's just me.  ::)

Bogey

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October 09, 2010, 05:42:11 AM
Quote from: MN Dave on October 09, 2010, 05:24:21 AM
Damn fine list. Except for Brian Wilson. Oh, I suppose it's just me.  ::)


It was almost David Byrne....but.... ;D
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DavidW

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October 09, 2010, 06:29:52 AM
Quote from: MN Dave on October 09, 2010, 05:24:21 AM
Damn fine list. Except for Brian Wilson. Oh, I suppose it's just me.  ::)

Agreed, don't care for the Beach Boys.  No love for Elvis Bill? :)

Xenophanes

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October 09, 2010, 07:08:54 AM
Andreas Hammerschmidt
Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov
Franz Ignaz Beck
P. D. Q. Bach
Antonio Salieri
Cesar Cui
Frederick the Great
Friedrich Nietzsche
Johan Halvorsen
Anon  Anonymous

MN Dave

#6
October 09, 2010, 07:10:55 AM
Louis Armstrong
Bach
Beatles
Beethoven
Brahms
Chopin
Bob Dylan
Ellington
Mozart
Schubert

Bogey

#7
October 09, 2010, 08:07:53 AM
Quote from: DavidW on October 09, 2010, 06:29:52 AM
Agreed, don't care for the Beach Boys.  No love for Elvis Bill? :)

How much of his stuff did he write, David?  (This is a sincere question and not a shot at The King!).   I do need to get some more of his stuff on the shelf though.

I almost put down Paul Simon, but he just does not seem like a very nice chap so held that against him. ;D

Great call on Ellington, Dave.
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DavidW

#9
October 09, 2010, 08:30:02 AM
Ah but he popularized what he stole and transformed it, and changed pop music in the process.  How many tunes did Bach steal? yet he features prominently on your list. :)

Scarpia

#10
October 09, 2010, 08:38:48 AM
Really, how can I sit here and decide whether to bump Brahms from the list to make room for Elvis?  Not that I want to claim that one art form is superior to another, but if they involve completely orthogonal techniques and skill sets, how can I compare?  It's like asking who was better, Mark Spitz, or Werner Heisenberg.

Bogey

#11
October 09, 2010, 08:42:18 AM
Quote from: DavidW on October 09, 2010, 08:30:02 AM
Ah but he popularized what he stole and transformed it, and changed pop music in the process.  How many tunes did Bach steal? yet he features prominently on your list. :)

Great points!


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71 dB

#12
October 09, 2010, 09:36:33 AM
My list emphasizes my own generation of musicians omitting many many classical composers.

Elgar
J. S. Bach
Mark Moore (S'Express)
Liam Howlet (The Prodigy)
Jonny Listners (Jonny L)
Autechre
Tangerine Dream
King Crimson
John Williams
Clifford Brown & Max Roach



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October 09, 2010, 09:47:47 AM
Bach
Mozart
Haydn
Beethoven
Debussy
Liszt (more as performer than composer)
Duke Ellington
Thelonius Monk
Led Zeppelin (Page/Plant)
Beatles (Lennon/McCartney)


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Beetzart

#14
October 09, 2010, 10:36:05 AM
Quote from: Scarpia on October 09, 2010, 08:38:48 AM
Really, how can I sit here and decide whether to bump Brahms from the list to make room for Elvis? Not that I want to claim that one art form is superior to another, but if they involve completely orthogonal techniques and skill sets, how can I compare?  It's like asking who was better, Mark Spitz, or Werner Heisenberg.

You don't have to claim that one art form is superior to anothor, but you can safely say that art is superior to non-art!!!!

How dreadful knowledge of truth can be when there is no  help in truth.

Beetzart

#15
October 09, 2010, 10:44:32 AM
Here is my list

             Guillaume de Machaut
             Johann Sebastian Bach
             Franz Joseph Haydn
             Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
             Ludwig van Beethoven
             Franz Schubert
             Hector Berlioz
             Richard Wagner
             Johannes Brahms
             Igor Stravinsky
             
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Bulldog

#16
October 09, 2010, 10:49:00 AM
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Schumann
Chopin
Wagner
Mahler
Scriabin
Shostakovich
Stravinsky

AndyD.

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October 09, 2010, 12:20:10 PM Last Edit: October 09, 2010, 12:23:26 PM by AndyD.
Wagner

Beethoven

Bach

Miles Davis

Robert Johnson





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#18
October 11, 2010, 07:26:53 AM
Perotin
Josquin
Tansen
Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
(too many romantics to choose from)
Louis Armstrong
Charlie Parker
James Brown
Jobim

canninator

#19
October 11, 2010, 07:38:35 AM
Quote from: bwv 1080 on October 11, 2010, 07:26:53 AM
Perotin

This is a really tough one. I thought about this, maybe Leonin, maybe even Magister Albertus whose piece for three voices from Codex Calixtinus is the first piece for three voices and predates the Magnus Liber. Albertus was canon and cantor at Notre Dame and overlapped with Leonin. Is Perotin the real genius of music? We can take the lineage in the development of polyphony in Paris at least to Albertus. Is he the real genius here?
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