What period of classical music do you listen to most?

[orange]

It's interesting there's not a lot interest for Renaissance. I really enjoy listening to motets, madrigals,... I think Gregorian chant and then renaissance are the base of all western music and it's important for musicians to get to know with this Renaissance spirit.

[The Emperor]

20th Century mostly because of Shostakovich, Pettersson, Pärt, Bartok, Stravinsky. Ligeti, Rachmaninoff...
You can't beat it

[Lethevich]

It's interesting there's not a lot interest for Renaissance. I really enjoy listening to motets, madrigals,... I think Gregorian chant and then renaissance are the base of all western music and it's important for musicians to get to know with this Renaissance spirit.

I would've, but it's incredibly boring to say "1098-2007"

[Mark]

Think I'll clarify my original post (romantic to early modern), by citing composers running roughly from the time of Beethoven to the last days of Finzi. Which is not to say I don't have an appetite for any composers either side.

[Bonehelm]

From classical to late romantic. That is, Mozart to Bruckner.

[Tancata]

It's interesting there's not a lot interest for Renaissance. I really enjoy listening to motets, madrigals,... I think Gregorian chant and then renaissance are the base of all western music and it's important for musicians to get to know with this Renaissance spirit.

I would've, but it's incredibly boring to say "1098-2007"

Hehe...yes, agree. Although, personally I find it hard to pick out individual composers as favourites before 1500 or so. I know - Dufay - but there doesn't seem to be the kind of line-up there was later. Still lots of beautiful music, though.

[BachQ]

Pre-Gothic period ........

[BachQ]

Answer: 1813-1883  0:)

Small problem: Wagner was born in 1813, but didn't begin composing until age 19 .........

[SonicMan46]

I'm having a deja vu.

(Yes, I do realize "favorite period" does not equal "period you listen to the most" - but it almost does!)

Agree - believe I responded before, and pretty much on the same 'wavelength' as Gurn - mid-18th century into the first half of the 19th century; goin' beyond the period would involve both directions forward & backward for me - 

[jochanaan]

Hehe...yes, agree. Although, personally I find it hard to pick out individual composers as favourites before 1500 or so. I know - Dufay - but there doesn't seem to be the kind of line-up there was later. Still lots of beautiful music, though.

Machaut.

Then there is the pre 20th century French school ... Faure of course, then his pupils Ravel & Debussy, all of whom helped open a new door ... so much Gallic beauty there.

Have you tried Chabrier, Chausson, Franck, and d'Indy?

Apart from the obvious pilars Bartok, Stravinsky & Webern...here are a few personal modern choices...Boulez (Piano Sonatas), Stockhausen (Klavierstucke & others), Ligeti (Piano Etudes & many others), Gubaidulina (Offertorium), Birtwistle (Secret Theater), Tippett (Piano Concerto) etc.

Lutoslawski is a recent discovery for me, and I highly recommend his music.

[Tancata]

Machaut.

OK, and I guess Ockeghem and Josquin too, he was born before 1500...

[aquablob]

In terms of quantity of composers from a specific era, it would be early romantic for me (Schubert, Schumann, and Chopin in particular)... but I listen to a lot of Bach, Beethoven, and Debussy, too, and a lot of other composers from different periods as well.

[orange]

OK, and I guess Ockeghem and Josquin too, he was born before 1500...

Definetly also, Palestrina,Orlando di Lasso, Monteverdi and I really like Gallus.

One of my favourite madrigals of all is Matona, Mia Cara (Lasso) (real masterpiece).

[Tancata]

Definetly also, Palestrina,Orlando di Lasso, Monteverdi and I really like Gallus.

One of my favourite madrigals of all is Matona, Mia Cara (Lasso) (real masterpiece).

Yes definitely - Monteverdi in particular is one of my favourite composers from any era. But this was in the context of pre-1500 composers...... 

[Steve]

Baroque, Early-Classical, but I've been expanding my interests for quite some time now.

[hornteacher]

I go through stages where I listen to nothing but <insert composer> for weeks at a time then I move on to someone else.  I always seem to come back to the Late Classical/Early Romantic period though.

[Topaz]

I always seem to come back to the Late Classical/Early Romantic period though.

Ah yes, me too, with Schubert at the very centre.

[Guido]

Almost exclusively 20th century, almost no classical, some romantic, and a fair bit of Bach and late Beethoven.

[The Emperor]

Almost exclusively 20th century, almost no classical, some romantic, and a fair bit of Bach and late Beethoven.

You sound like me!

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Anything between Beethoven (born 1770) and Simpson (died 1997).