5 Composers - 5 Genres

[TheGSMoeller]

Choose 5 composers and match them up with your 5 favorite genres from their oeuvre.
Only rule is you cannot double up on a composer or genre. It's just a silly, but fun exercise.


Haydn – Symphonies
Rameau – Solo Piano/Harpsichord
Dowland – Songs
Strauss – Tone Poems
Berlioz– Orchestral/Vocal

Two alternatives (at one point made the list but were outed)

Prokofiev - Piano Concertos
Poulenc – Solo Choir

[Karl Henning]

Haydn - oratorio
Chopin - pf solo
Feldman - himself
Shostakovich - chamber
Brahms - chorus, accompanied

[TheGSMoeller]

Haydn - oratorio
Chopin - pf solo
Feldman - himself
Shostakovich - chamber
Brahms - chorus, accompanied

Not that familiar with Brahms solo choral music, will have to change that.

Thanks for the list, Karl.

[springrite]

Symphonies: Mahler
Keyboard: Bach (edging Beethoven, Medtner, Chopin, Liszt and Alkan)
Choral: Bach
Quartets: Beethoven
Genre-less: Feldman

[Fafner]

Donizetti - Bel canto opera
Wagner - Gesamtkunstwerk
Beethoven - Symphony
Shostakovich - Incidental music
Tchaikovsky - Ballet

[Mirror Image]

Here's mine:

Delius: His own idiom
Shostakovich: Symphonies
Stravinsky: Ballets
Debussy: Chamber
Bartok: Concertante (although Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Delius, Britten would have been good choices as well)

[North Star]

Ravel – Solo Piano
Sibelius – Symphonic
Berlioz – Operas
Stravinsky – Ballets
Mozart - Concertos

[Opus106]

Bach - clavichord/harpsichord/organ/whateverthemanwished
Mozart - Fp of the '80s
Beethoven - Fp 1800-1825
Schubert - Fp of the late '20s
Chopin - Pf of '30s and '40s

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Brass chamber music: Holmboe
Electronic music: Xenakis
Player-piano music: Nancarrow
Choral symphonies: Mahler
Motets: Josquin

[Brahmsian]

Brahms - Chamber Music
Bach - Solo Instrumental
Beethoven - Piano Sonatas
Bruckner - Symphonies
Tchaikovky - Ballets

[springrite]

Chamber music for odd combination of instruments: Hindemith
Music in the key of C minor: Beethoven
Post Schoenberg serialism: George Perle
Complexity/Simplicity: Carter
Nationalistic (non-Wagnerian, non-Italian...) opera: Janacek

[Fafner]

Nationalistic (non-Wagnerian, non-Italian...) opera Rap music: Janacek

Through his systematic notation of folk songs as he heard them, Janáček developed an exceptional sensitivity to the melodies and rhythms of speech, from which he compiled a collection of distinctive segments he called "speech tunes".[73] He used these "essences" of spoken language in his vocal and instrumental works.  source: Wiki

[Brahmsian]

Lady Gaga - Using Sex to sell your image music
Debussy - Impressionism
Schumann - Romanticism
Wagner - Operas
Cage - Silent Music

[Sergeant Rock]

Symphonies - Mahler

Piano Concertos - Mozart

Opera - Wagner

String Quartets - Haydn

Tone Poems - Sibelius


Sarge

[Opus106]

Wagner - Operas

Opera - Wagner

*Cough*Gesamtkunstwerk*cough*

[madaboutmahler]

Mahler - Symphonies
Chopin - Solo piano music
Ravel - general awesome orchestral works
R.Strauss - Tone Poems
Prokofiev - Great concerti

[springrite]

Mahler - Symphonies
Chopin - Solo piano music
Ravel - general awesome orchestral works
R.Strauss - Tone Poems
Prokofiev - Great concerti

From you, I was expecting:
Orchestral Symphonies: Mahler
Choral Symphonies: Mahler
Symphonies not actually titled as symphonies: Mahler
Orchestral song cycles: Mahler
Song cycles with piano accompaniment: Mahler

[Superhorn]

   Isn't Rameau best known as an opera composer ?  His other works are fine, though.

[Brahmsian]

Wagner - Stealing someone's wife
Mendelssohn & Mozart - Having the hots for their sister
Brahms - Having the hots for another composer's wife
Bruckner - Dead people
Mahler - Trying to evade fate by removing hammer blows and sidestepping symphony number curse (nice try!)

[Opus106]

Mendelssohn & Mozart - Having the hots for their sister

Ugh! What?! Seriously... wash your mouth.