Composers That Are Linked To Your Soul

[MN Dave]

Oh, "passionate about." Well, then...

Beethoven
Chopin

Near to these: Bach, Brahms and Schubert.

[prémont]

J S Bach
Beethoven
Buxtehude
Froberger
DuFay
Anonymous

[Mirror Image]

Frank Martin

I'm still discovering his music and it has proved to be a great experience. I own the Chandos series, the 2-CD set on Decca, and two recordings on MDG of his concertos.

[starrynight]

Probably Mozart and Beethoven.

[petrarch]

I would never presume to be an expert on, but I am utterly passionate about (from eldest to youngest and with varying degrees of appeal to different areas of my brain and modes of thinking):
Edgar Varèse
John Cage
Iannis Xenakis
Luigi Nono
Pierre Boulez
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Wolfgang Rihm

[Guido]

Ives
Barber
Finzi
Strauss
Goldschmidt
Schoeck

I better stop there... So many more that I really love, but these ones are probably my core.

I still always think Finzi when people start talking about this subject but I actually listen to him very little these days - I know every note of his oeuvre so well, and I was a complete devotee in my mid-late teens, but now I see him more realistically... though I love him very much still for his sensitive beauty and aching nostalgia.

[Antoine Marchand]

J.S. Bach
Haydn
Schubert
Brahms
and... I don't know, maybe Monteverdi, Chopin, Vivaldi, Dvořák or Shostakovich...

[Mirror Image]

Stravinsky
Prokofiev
Shostakovich
Berlioz
Schoenberg

An amazing list, no doubt about it.

[Holden]

J S Bach - numero uno for me!

Beethoven

Schumann

Chopin

Schubert

[The new erato]

I'm still discovering his music and it has proved to be a great experience. I own the Chandos series, the 2-CD set on Decca, and two recordings on MDG of his concertos.

The core of Frank Martin really is in his vocal music (however much I love the discs you mention - and yes; I don't forget that one of the Chandos discs contain In Terra Pax) - so the Cornet cycle (definitely preferable on Orfeo); the two oratorios available on HM (Le vin Herbe and Golgotha) and the mass (on Hyperion) is mandatory. 

[Wendell_E]

Janáček
Berg
Mahler
Shostakovich
Verdi

[Mirror Image]

The core of Frank Martin really is in his vocal music (however much I love the discs you mention - and yes; I don't forget that one of the Chandos discs contain In Terra Pax) - so the Cornet cycle (definitely preferable on Orfeo); the two oratorios available on HM (Le vin Herbe and Golgotha) and the mass (on Hyperion) is mandatory. 

Thanks Erato, I'll check those out.

[Luke]

MI (and anyone else) - further to our little exchange on Tippett yesterday:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?rxt2jtmoyam - Piano Concerto
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?j0gro7ttdvy - Triple Concerto

I think I saw on the Tippett thread that you have these already, perhaps, but feel free to download if you wish.

[Florestan]

Brahms and Schubert.

Haydn
Schubert
Brahms

Mes semblables, mes freres... 

[MN Dave]

Mes semblables, mes freres... 

[mc ukrneal]

No "expert' at all and not five. But "passionate about", most certainly.

Haydn
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Schumann
Chopin
Brahms
Tchaikovsky
Rachmaninoff

This list elicits a lot of empathy from me. Many of them could have appeared on my list (and some did), but my list would be:
Grainger
Offenbach
Brahms
Tchaikovsky
Verdi

Others I considered: Holst, Loewe, Puccini, and Saint-Saens.

[Antoine Marchand]

Mes semblables, mes freres... 

Baroque lover, Classicism fan, Romantic at heart... I thought to change the order of the list, but Romantic lover sounded a bit sexual. 

[Antoine Marchand]

J S Bach
Beethoven
Buxtehude
Froberger
DuFay
Anonymous

The first three are not unexpected... well, maybe Bach a little bit. 

On the other hand, I didn't expect Froberger and DuFay. I had thought in a name like Frescobaldi, for instance. Anyway, interesting and suggestive.

Anonymous? In general or "the anonymous" of a particular work? 

[prémont]

The first three are not unexpected... well, maybe Bach a little bit. 

I am happy still being able to surprise you.

On the other hand, I didn't expect Froberger and DuFay. I had thought in a name like Frescobaldi, for instance. Anyway, interesting and suggestive.

I wasn´t far from writing Frescobaldi instead of Froberger, but in the end I find my mind resonating more with  Frobergers introvert meditative music. 

At first I also considered Binchois or Landini instead of DuFay, because they have written some works which touch my soul at least as much as DuFay´s greatest works, but the difference is, that DuFay has written more great music than these two - or at least more great music  by him survive. 

Anonymous? In general or "the anonymous" of a particular work? 

In general. Quite a lot of music from the medieval age and the renaissance are written by anonymous composers.

[rappy]

Haydn
Brahms
Strauss