Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

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foxandpeng

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March 19, 2025, 11:47:09 PM
Quote from: Der lächelnde Schatten on March 19, 2025, 07:37:55 PMHis music is filtered through this kind of grim-tinted prism and sometimes I'm just not in the mood for it.

What's not to love? 😁
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

Christo

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March 20, 2025, 12:40:16 AM Last Edit: March 20, 2025, 05:39:51 AM by Christo
Quote from: Der lächelnde Schatten on March 19, 2025, 07:37:55 PMVaughan Williams and Sibelius, admittedly two different kettle of fish, have a more streamlined approach to the symphony --- no question about it. I love both of these composers for this fact and also how they offer a completely different view than so many other composers who came before them.
Amen. Both freed the air, so to say, for all who came after them. In Sibelius' case that is: most Scandinavians, but also John Kinsella and Douglas Lilburn, to mention but two. In RVW's case these are mainly his "pupils," among them exemplary symphonists like Stanley Bate and Ruth Gipps (my all-time favourite composer by now). :-)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

foxandpeng

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March 20, 2025, 03:06:20 AM
Quote from: Christo on March 20, 2025, 12:40:16 AMAmen. Both freed the air, so to say, for all who came after them. In Sibelius' case that is: most Scandinavians, but also John Kinsella and Douglas Lilburn, to mention but two. In RVW's case these are mainly his "pupils," among them exemplary symphonists lake Stanley Bate and Ruth Gipps (my all-time favourite composer by now). :-)

Kinsella and Lilburn. Good call. I like their music very much.
"A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people ... then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbour — such is my idea of happiness"

Tolstoy

kyjo

#1283
May 16, 2025, 09:42:12 AM
Quote from: kyjo on March 15, 2023, 08:05:08 AMAntonín Dvořák
Sergei Prokofiev
George Lloyd
Jean Sibelius
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Kurt Atterberg
Johannes Brahms
Carl Nielsen
Francis Poulenc
Ralph Vaughan Williams

I'm still quite content with this list from two years ago. Though depending on the day I might switch out Poulenc with Saint-Saëns! :)
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Karl Henning

#1284
May 16, 2025, 10:04:32 AM
Quote from: kyjo on May 16, 2025, 09:42:12 AMI'm still quite content with this list from two years ago. Though depending on the day I might switch out Poulenc with Saint-Saëns! :)
It's a solid list!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

atardecer

#1285
May 18, 2025, 08:34:34 PM
Quote from: atardecer on May 31, 2024, 04:42:55 PM1. Bach
2. Ravel
3. Debussy
4. Mozart
5. Brahms
6. Bartók
7. Rodrigo
8. Stravinsky
9. Prokofiev
10. Takemitsu

A little different now:

1. Bach
2. Ravel
3. Debussy
4. Mozart
5. Brahms
6. Bartók
7. Takemitsu
8. Stravinsky
9. Prokofiev
10. Byrd

Rodrigo is still in my top 20. Byrd enters my top ten after acquiring the complete keyboard works on Brilliant Classics (Pieter-Jan Belder).
"Leave that which is not, but appears to be. Seek that which is, but is not apparent." - Rumi

"Outwardly limited, boundless inwardly." - Goethe

"The art of being a slave is to rule one's master." - Diogenes
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