Your Three Favorite Composers

[mszczuj]

It's easy. In chronological order: Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven.

[nodogen]

It's easy. In chronological order: Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven.

This is the three thread, not the four. 😊

[mszczuj]

This is the three thread, not the four. 😊

Then the first is Beethoven, the second is Bach and the third are Haydn and Mozart.

[prémont]

Then the first is Beethoven, the second is Bach and the third are Haydn and Mozart.

Precisely what I guessed.

Haydn and Mozart only counts for one half each.

[Crudblud]

I can take a nice dose of that everyday 

Not every day, might get sick... I'm on a Frescobaldi kick right now anyway.

[Karl Henning]

Not every day, might get sick... I'm on a Frescobaldi kick right now anyway.

YES!

[Crudblud]

YES!

Ain't he just magnificent?

[Brahmsian]

I'm up to four equal favourites now.

It began about 14 years ago with Beethoven.

Then Brahms;

Then Shostakovich

And now Bruckner forms the four headed monster.

[Florestan]

Mozart, Schubert, Chopin

(30 years ago it was Beethoven, Beethoven, Mahler)

With age comes wisdom.   

[Florestan]

I probably have answered in this thread before, but I feel fairly certain that my choices would no longer be the same.  I only have two truly favorite composers:

Brahms & Debussy. 

I can't even think of a third whose music I enjoy as nearly as much as I do that of these two.

Your love for Brahms has its limits, though:

pick your favorite symphony or concerto - and I won't like it.

[NikF4]

Brahms
Prokofiev
Ravel

[Florestan]

For sure, I don't listen to Brahm's orchestral music

Try his two serenades, they are delightful.

[ritter]

...
- The "número uno": Richard Wagner
- Claude Debussy
- Pierre Boulez
...

Almost two years later, im Westen nichts Neues. 

[San Antone]

Try his two serenades, they are delightful.

I will.  Thanks for the suggestion.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Wagner
Debussy
Berlioz

[Madiel]

With age comes wisdom.

Some of us have been old for a long time.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

With age comes wisdom.

If only it were that easy.

[Mirror Image]

I suppose I should update my trifecta:

Debussy



Ravel



Bartók

[amw]

Due more to changes in my personal definition of "favorite" than any actual rebalancing, my current choices would be Schubert, Mozart & Dvořák.

Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Bach & Bartók are still very important composers to me but not always ones I listen to with the same sense of love; there are days, weeks or months that can go by without me having a desire to hear their music. The composers whom I always am down to listen to who are just behind the top 3 would be Mendelssohn, Poulenc, Haydn, Cage, Ravel & Sciarrino.

[Christo]

My first choice is still Vaughan Williams, who became a personal favourite in the 1970s, when I was 15. He still is. Second and third choices have differed over time. Today (:-)) they are Tubin and Holmboe.

Nothing very different today.