Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

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Time for a bit of a change:

Debussy
Mahler
Strauss
Sibelius
Bartók
Ravel
Stravinsky
Martinů
Berlioz
Saint-Saëns

I'm still rather content with this list, which is a first for me now that I'm thinking about it.

[Madiel]

Good news, doctor, the patient has stabilised.

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Good news, doctor, the patient has stabilised.

[Symphonic Addict]

Exclusions were painful. Still, in no particular order:

JS Bach
Bruckner
Beethoven
Mahler
Schubert
Shostakovich
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Wagner
Josquin Des Prez
Brahms

And, five who nearly were among the Ten ( and still may be in the future ):

Tchaikovsky
Puccini
Ravel
Debussy
Haydn

We share many fine composers as far as I can see. 

[Symphonic Addict]

Let's do a top 10 randomly:

Walton
Hindemith
Honegger
Schnittke
Haydn
Respighi
Langgaard
Ravel
Sibelius
Lutoslawski

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Let's do a top 10 randomly:

Walton
Hindemith
Honegger
Schnittke
Haydn
Respighi
Langgaard
Ravel
Sibelius
Lutoslawski

Now do one of nothing but favorite 12-tone composers.

[Symphonic Addict]

Now do one of nothing but favorite 12-tone composers.

Why not? 

Berg
Schoenberg
Valen
Skalkottas
Webern
Stravinsky
Hartmann
Rathaus
Wellesz
Pettersson (I'm cheating here)

[amw]

...

The lists I made in 2018 and 2021 are still more or less accurate. I would say:

by order of preference

• Schubert
• Mozart
• Dvořák
• Poulenc
• Schumann
• Tchaikovsky
• Haydn
• Beethoven
• Bartók
• Sciarrino

___________
by order of importance to my life/history/personal development etc

• Beethoven
• Schumann
• Schubert
• Brahms
• Bartók
• Bach
• Mozart
• Haydn
• Chopin
• Dvořák

___________
by preference at this present moment

• Mozart
• Schubert
• Beethoven
• Martinů
• Brahms
• Medtner
• Haydn
• Fauré
• Schmitt
• Saint-Saëns

(but honestly, I'm ok with just the top 2 at the moment. have just been listening to every version I can find of like, five specific pieces for the past month)

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Why not? 

Berg
Schoenberg
Valen
Skalkottas
Webern
Stravinsky
Hartmann
Rathaus
Wellesz
Pettersson (I'm cheating here)

Hartmann? Really? Hmmm...anyway, a curious list.

[Madiel]

Let's do a top 10 randomly:

This seems like a fundamental contradiction in terms.

[Symphonic Addict]

Hartmann? Really? Hmmm...anyway, a curious list.

Yes, be it serialist/dodecaphonic/whatever (in his late period), even though you didn't think I could make a list of them. 

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Yes, be it serialist/dodecaphonic/whatever (in his late period), even though you didn't think I could make a list of them. 

Oh, I had no doubt you could make a list of them, but to call them favorites of your own is what I found curious.

[Symphonic Addict]

Just hearing a formidable work by a composer who also has twelve-tone ideas or sound world: Symphonic Piece for string orchestra, op. 86 by Ernst Krenek. Rather interesting and alluring at first listen.

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Just hearing a formidable work by a composer who also has twelve-tone ideas or sound world: Symphonic Piece for string orchestra, op. 86 by Ernst Krenek. Rather interesting and alluring at first listen.

I haven't been able to get into Krenek yet. I don't own much by him --- the symphony set on CPO and a few other recordings.

[Mirror Image]

A little update:

Debussy
Mahler
Strauss
Sibelius
Bartók
Ravel
Vaughan Williams
Stravinsky
Martinů
Berlioz

[DavidW]

Bach
Beethoven
Haydn
Mozart
Schubert
Brahms
Shostakovich
Mahler
Bruckner
Vaughan Williams

I'm going to replace RVW with Dvorak.

[MusicTurner]

Maybe

Bach
Mozart
Beethoven
Bruckner
Mahler
Scriabin
Debussy
Janacek
Nielsen
Shostakovich

but 30 is better 

[foxandpeng]

Recently, no order.

RVW
Holmboe
Tabakov
Bax
Arnold
Shostakovich
Vasks
Sibelius
Antheil
Nørgård

More recently...

RVW
Holmboe
Tabakov
Bax
Arnold
Shostakovich
Vasks
Sibelius
Tubin
Rautavaara

Interesting that this year hasn't seen much change yet.

[Madiel]

Interesting that this year hasn't seen much change yet.

You expect change in a year?

I'm so boring. I don't expect all that much change in a decade.

[Brahmsian]

Currently:

1-a Shostakovich
1-b Dvořák
1-c Bruckner

4 - Tchaikovsky
5 - Sibelius
6 - Penderecki
7 - Taneyev
8 - Schumann
9 - Franck
10 - Prokofiev