b.1900-1971

[Drasko]

Weill, Shostakovich, Ligeti, Takemitsu, Part.

[Mirror Image]

Weill, Shostakovich, Ligeti, Takemitsu, Part.

Very interesting list. I still haven't listened to Weill yet for whatever reasons.

[CD]

Giacinto Scelsi
Iannis Xenakis
Pierre Boulez
Morton Feldman
Karlheinz Stockhausen

Would've put Nørgård in there somewhere if he was on the list.

[Senta]

Adams
Ligeti
Lutoslawski
Messiaen
Shostakovich

[mc ukrneal]

I must say, this vote has gone pretty much as I expected with one exception. I had no idea Ligeti was so popular. I'm really surprised by that.

[The new erato]

I must say, this vote has gone pretty much as I expected with one exception. I had no idea Ligeti was so popular. I'm really surprised by that.

Top doesn't necessarily mean popular. If I'd thought that, I would have put Hindemith in. Come to think of it, James' initial post was a little unprecise.

[Sid]

Well I don't know all of them, but one of my current favourites, Piazzolla isn't there. I'm beginning to enjoy some of the "less serious" music, it lightens my mood. Of the ones there, I'd definitely pick Leonard Bernstein for his theatricality & drama & John Cage for his spontaneity and daring. As for the others, I'll have to think about it, I guess...

[The new erato]

And come to think of it again, Hindemith was born in 1895.   

[Florestan]

From your list, Rodrigo, Khachaturian, Shostakovich.

Add Piazzola and Henning and you have five. 

[karlhenning]

I am honored!

[Mirror Image]

Ligeti has 12 votes. Impressive.

[not edward]

I sort of did the opposite process to Luke: I started with names I felt I couldn't leave off (Lutoslawski, Ligeti, Carter). Then I couldn't decide about the last two, so I chose one composer whose music connects with me in a very direct manner (Tippett*), and one "well, why the hell not?" pick in Cage**.

*I rather suspect that anyone browsing this thread and seeing two votes for Tippett would probably have little trouble guessing they were Luke's and mine.
**At least in part because otherwise the fifth vote would basically gone to whichever of a half-dozen composers I'd listened to most recently.

[The Six]

I'm the only one to pick Duruflé 

[karlhenning]

I'm the only one to pick Duruflé 

I love his music, but I could not make the case for including him in a Top 5.

(Then again, this is another poll from which I am sublimely abstaining.)

[springrite]

Carter
Cage
Britten
Feldman
Kurtag



I hate voting for an eventual winner.

[karlhenning]

. . . And don't feel so alone, I'm the only one to choose Dallapiccola.

Whose music I like even more than that of Duruflé . . . but, for myself, I could not make the case for including him in a Top 5, either.

(I repeat, though: this is another poll from which I am sublimely abstaining.)

[springrite]

Whose music I like even more than that of Duruflé . . . but, for myself, I could not make the case for including him in a Top 5, either.

(I repeat, though: this is another poll from which I am sublimely abstaining.)

If you are a member of the UN, you'd be CHINA. 

[karlhenning]

More posts like this and we can find your top 5 through a process of elimination. 

There seem to be no plans on any such scale. We'll see how it plays . . . .

[DavidW]

I voted for Shostakovich and nothing else.

[Mirror Image]

I picked my 5.

Who did you pick, James?