Top 11 Composers of Chamber Music

[Scion7]

Beethoven
Brahms
Mozart
Haydn
Schumann
Schubert
Bartok
Hindemith
Shostakovich
Bacewicz
Dvorak
Faure

. . . going by what is generally recognized today as "chamber music" - if we throw in the Baroque forms, my list would change, of course.

[Henk]

Poulenc, Shostakovich, Faure, Debussy, Ravel, Martinu, Schumann, Bartok, Brahms, Ives, Bax

Five for the moment:

Mendelssohn
Mozart
Beethoven
Schubert
Donatoni

Mendelssohn isn't included in many member's list. Shocking.

[Henk]

The other five:

Haydn
Boccherini
Takemitsu
Messiaen
Shostakovich

+1 Feldman

I drop in Shostakovich, because sometimes you shouldn't stick to your actual taste. I want to like him.

[mn dave]

Beethoven
Schubert
Mozart
Brahms
Dvorák
Borodin
Mendelssohn
Haydn
Schumann
Bartók
Shostakovitch

[North Star]

I drop in Shostakovich, because sometimes you shouldn't stick to your actual taste. I want to like him.

It is admirable that you keep trying, Henk.
Have you heard the Piano Quintet, Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 67, or the PC's?

[Henk]

It is admirable that you keep trying, Henk.
Have you heard the Piano Quintet, Piano Trio No. 2, Op. 67, or the PC's?

I have his VC on Naxos. I also have PC 2 by Ogdon / Foster. I think I also have the Piano Quintet, but can't find it. I have multiple perfomances of his string quartets, which I will also try to enjoy. On Rdio I can find more of him. Rdio is such a great thing. I will try the Helmchen Piano Quintet they have later.

[Scion7]

I love his work, I just like the others in my list better.  He's right after Faure, who produced some very nice stuff in the chamber music category.  I think we'd all like to hang out with Felix - by all accounts, a pretty nice guy.

[Henk]

I love his work, I just like the others in my list better.  He's right after Faure, who produced some very nice stuff in the chamber music category.  I think we'd all like to hang out with Felix - by all accounts, a pretty nice guy.

Also love Mendelssohn, more than Schubert, I always regard them as a couple in succeeding Beethoven. Mendelssohn is more distinctive than Schubert to Beethoven.

[Scion7]

Yeah, but that Quintet of Schubert's is just one of the prime pieces of chamber music!  :-)  Looking over the vast output in Mendelssohn's chamber works, tho' - damn, we need 12 in the list!!!!