What period of classical music do you listen to most?

[LaciDeeLeBlanc]

Now, I understand this maybe a difficult question to answer, but I am insatiably curious.  If you cannot think of what period you most listen to, think of which one is roughly your favourite. 

Personally, I tend to listen to late Romantic and 20th century music the most.  This is largely because of the brass parts that emerged during this time.  I wish to learn about all periods, but these are the most accessable and easiest for me to relate to.

[quintett op.57]

My favourite period starts with Haydn & finishes with Schnittke.

[Don]

My most frequent period is baroque, but only because of Bach.  If not for Bach, it would be late romantic to mid-20th century.

[Heather Harrison]

I will listen to any period from ancient Greece to the present day.  It isn't easy to figure out which one I listen to most because I go back and forth a lot.  Over rather short timeframes, I might focus on a particular period, but that is typically just because I have bought some box set, or have happened to find a large number of CDs from the same period.  Lately, it would be the 20th Century, because I recently bought a complete set of Shostakovich's symphonies and a 4-CD set of the music of Ligeti.  A while back, it was the Romantic, primarily thanks to a complete set of Bruckner's symphonies and a number of Brahms CDs.  Now that I have gone through my latest CD backlog, I am back to my usual habit of listening to a wide variety.  Today, the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Classic, mid-Romantic, and late 20th Century have been represented so far.

Heather

[71 dB]

Middle/late baroque and late romantic.

[Scriptavolant]

It varies concordantly with the composers I'm interested in. Following not particular rules, I try to know all the music. This is what I listen to. What I love/enjoy most is a different thing: modern music (1900-1950) and early to late Baroque.

[Maciek]

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!)

[Scriptavolant]

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

To have a favourite period one must listen to all periods - and deepen his knowledge of them. If not he will not have a favourite period but "a period" instead. 

[Mark]

Romantic to early modern.

[Solitary Wanderer]

Romantic to early modern.

Snap! 

[jochanaan]

I'm like Heather; I listen to everything but tend to favor music from the last hundred years.

[Tancata]

1550-1750, but I also listen to a lot of classical music and a fair bit of 20th century stuff.

[marvinbrown]

  What period of "classical" music do I listen to most?
 
  Answer: 1813-1883  0:)

  WHY? isn't it obvious?
  (hint: take a good look at my avatar 

   marvin

[Gurn Blanston]

In its narrowest aspect: 1780-1830. In the much broader sense: 1680-<>1960

[Gabriel]

In its narrowest aspect: 1780-1830. In the much broader sense: 1680-<>1960

Gurn, you are being unfair with the early classics.

1750-1830. Also late baroque and early romanticism. And a bit of the rest.

[Gurn Blanston]

Gurn, you are being unfair with the early classics.

1750-1830. Also late baroque and early romanticism. And a bit of the rest.

You're right, Gabriel. I was trying to put a 50 year window to keep it narrow, so I plucked the still-beating heart out and held it up before the world... oops, didn't mean to let that slip out...

[Mozart]

1770-1824  The best years of music starting with Mitridate, and finishing with LvB 9. I like some music later, but the majority are withing those years.

[Kullervo]

...tend to avoid and don't care much for the poisonous classical composers

What a strange comment. So there were composers going around lacing pastries with arsenic? What do you mean by this?

[quintett op.57]

What a strange comment. So there were composers going around lacing pastries with arsenic? What do you mean by this?

If I had to die, it's the poison I'd choose

[knight66]

Wondering about it, a couple of years ago I went through my collection to see how many discs I had that were of 20th cent music. I was surprised at how high the proportion was. But then, if I looked at 1950 to 2000, there was not much, probably then about 40 or so discs, rather more now.

I have patches of favourite eras, Baroque and Classical broadly, with early 20th cent hard on their heels.

Mike