Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

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Scion7

#720
July 23, 2016, 09:38:21 AM
Quote from: Mirror Image on July 23, 2016, 08:02:22 AM
Hah! I love Schnittke, .

While that's a more frightening statement than Shrillary in her Chairman Mao unisex-suit giving her speech now at the DNC, I believe that inside, there is a man with a taste for the true greats (Bach-Beethoven-Mozart-Haydn-Handel-Brahms-Vivaldi) waiting to burst free . . . as violently as that hide-her-age-Darkman-one-hour-lasting-facemask that Clinton's got on at the moment.

You CAN be saved, MI - I just know you can!   It may take electro-shock treatments . . . it may take vision/sound depravation . . . it may take radical, untested drugs ... but I know we can get there!  Step into the light, MI, step into the light!    :D
When, a few months before his death, Rachmaninov lamented that he no longer had the "strength and fire" to compose, friends reminded him of the Symphonic Dances, so charged with fire and strength. "Yes," he admitted. "I don't know how that happened. That was probably my last flicker."

Mirror Image

#721
August 01, 2016, 04:50:38 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on July 23, 2016, 07:50:09 AM
Time for an update:

Sibelius
Nielsen
Ravel
Bartók
Vaughan Williams
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Martinů
Dvořák
Schnittke

Time for some editing:

Sibelius
Nielsen
Ravel
Bartók
Vaughan Williams
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Dvořák
Copland
Martinů

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#722
August 01, 2016, 11:41:21 PM
Quote from: Scion7 on July 23, 2016, 09:38:21 AM
While that's a more frightening statement than Shrillary in her Chairman Mao unisex-suit giving her speech now at the DNC, I believe that inside, there is a man with a taste for the true greats (Bach-Beethoven-Mozart-Haydn-Handel-Brahms-Vivaldi) waiting to burst free . . . as violently as that hide-her-age-Darkman-one-hour-lasting-facemask that Clinton's got on at the moment.

You CAN be saved, MI - I just know you can!   It may take electro-shock treatments . . . it may take vision/sound depravation . . . it may take radical, untested drugs ... but I know we can get there!  Step into the light, MI, step into the light!    :D

Scion7, I have to say in all my honesty that it is actually THIS POST OF YOURS which is the most frightening thing I have ever read on the Internet!!!!  :o :o :o :o :o

Mirror Image

#723
November 07, 2016, 03:02:07 PM
I suppose a revision is in order:

Mahler
Sibelius
Nielsen
Vaughan Williams
Bartók
Dvořák
Bruckner
Shostakovich
Rachmaninov
Martinů

Ken B

#724
November 07, 2016, 03:32:55 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on November 07, 2016, 03:02:07 PM
I suppose a revision is in order:

Mahler
Sibelius
Nielsen
Vaughan Williams
Bartók
Dvořák
Bruckner
Shostakovich
Rachmaninov
Martinů

John
Education is a wonderful thing but I do wish you'd never learned to count.

;) :P :laugh:

Mirror Image

#725
November 07, 2016, 03:38:40 PM
Quote from: Ken B on November 07, 2016, 03:32:55 PM
John
Education is a wonderful thing but I do wish you'd never learned to count.

;) :P :laugh:

:P

Madiel

#726
November 08, 2016, 12:16:37 AM
At least he learned to count in English. I'm still trying to get to grips with it in Danish. Notoriously crazy system. The word for "fifty" is an abbreviated form of "halfway to three lots of twenty".
Every single post on the forum is unnecessary. Including the ones that are interesting or useful.

Ken B

#727
November 08, 2016, 10:47:51 AM
Quote from: ørfeo on November 08, 2016, 12:16:37 AM
At least he learned to count in English. I'm still trying to get to grips with it in Danish. Notoriously crazy system. The word for "fifty" is an abbreviated form of "halfway to three lots of twenty".
Well, John does seem to have odd ideas about what's less than 10.

Jay F

#728
November 08, 2016, 12:36:28 PM
1: Mahler

2-5:
Schubert
Beethoven
Mozart
Bach

6-10:
Vivaldi
Sibelius
Tchaikovsky
Bruckner
Shostakovich

springrite

#729
November 08, 2016, 12:38:35 PM
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

arpeggio

#730
November 08, 2016, 12:50:49 PM
I essentially answered this question in a post in my "Introductions" Thread": http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,26183.msg995821.html#msg995821

André

#731
November 08, 2016, 01:58:47 PM Last Edit: November 09, 2016, 11:56:30 AM by André
Bruckner, Delius, Wagner, Sibelius, Shostakovich, Arnold, Vaughan-Willams, Bach, Mozart, Haydn.

Runner-ups: Beethoven, Verdi, Pettersson, Mahler, Elgar,  Brahms, Schubert, Chopin, Clementi, Prokofiev, Puccini , Dvorak and all the 20th century French composers taken together.

If I go by the number of discs owned and collected over the last 45 years, they would be Bruckner, Wagner,  Beethoven, Haydn, Bach, Mozart.

Androcles

#732
November 09, 2016, 11:42:15 AM
1. Shostakovich
2. Berg
3. Messiaen
4. Bruckner
5. Nielsen
6. Simpson
7. Pettersson
8. Penderecki
9. Gubaidulina
10. Carter
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.

Ken B

#733
November 09, 2016, 12:03:13 PM
Quote from: sanantonio on November 09, 2016, 12:00:54 PM
I thought I had already posted in this thread, but can't find it.  I would probably argue with myself anyway since my list of favorite composers slightly changes over time depending upon which period I am focusing on. 

A mostly constant list:

Machaut
Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Mahler
Debussy
Schoenberg
Stravinsky
Cage
Feldman

I just realized, since we discussed Dylan, Machaut is the only major composer also thought of as an important poet.

ComposerOfAvantGarde

#734
November 10, 2016, 08:43:59 PM
10 composers I consider some of my most favourite today or just happen to be at the front of my mind:

Pierre Boulez
Pauline Oliveros
Brett Dean
Alban Berg
Charlotte Bray
György Ligeti
Helen Grime
Anna Thorvaldsdóttir
Dai Fujikura
Matthias Pintscher

Ghost Sonata

#735
November 14, 2016, 11:06:28 AM
Some settling of contents may have occurred since last shipment :

Brahms
Sibelius
Debussy
Martinů
Igor
Couperin
Rameau
Miaskovsky
Poulenc
Malipiero

The ones I weep over not fitting into a stingy ten spots : Janáček; R. Strauss; Glass; Wagner; Mahler; Duparc; Franck; Saint-Saëns; Vieuxtemps; VW
I like Conor71's "I  like old Music" signature.

vandermolen

#736
November 15, 2016, 05:43:44 AM
Quote from: Ghost Sonata on November 14, 2016, 11:06:28 AM
Some settling of contents may have occurred since last shipment :

Brahms
Sibelius
Debussy
Martinů
Igor
Couperin
Rameau
Miaskovsky
Poulenc
Malipiero

The ones I weep over not fitting into a stingy ten spots : Janáček; R. Strauss; Glass; Wagner; Mahler; Duparc; Franck; Saint-Saëns; Vieuxtemps; VW
Great choices although I know little Rameau.
Malipiero Symphony 7 is a fine one and Poulenc's Organ Concerto.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

vandermolen

#737
November 15, 2016, 05:45:42 AM
I'm interested in the admiration for Delius here. He is never a composer whose music I have 'got into'. Having said that I love 'In a Summer Garden' the Piano Concerto, in its various versions and the very moving ending of his underrated Requiem.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Brian

#738
November 15, 2016, 05:58:11 AM
Quote from: Brian on April 15, 2016, 03:17:05 PM
1. Beethoven
2. Dvorak
3. Schubert
4. Chopin
5. Ravel
6. Janacek
7. Berlioz
8. Haydn
9. Martinu Brahms
10. Schumann Martinu

Well that was another easy update.
1. Beethoven
2. Dvorak
3. Schubert
4. Chopin Haydn
5. Ravel
6. Janacek
7. Berlioz
8. Haydn Chopin
9. Brahms
10. Martinu

My list turns over a whole lot less than MI's does!

Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Bruckner, Mahler, and Sibelius are among some of the big names lurking in 11-20.

North Star

#739
November 15, 2016, 06:21:21 AM
Quote from: North Star on August 19, 2015, 09:31:56 AM
Compiling this without looking at my previous list, I see I removed Berlioz to make room for Mozart.

Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Chopin
Janáček
Mozart
Prokofiev
Ravel
Sibelius
Stravinsky

Time for some light editing.

Bach
Beethoven
Brahms
Chopin
Dvořák
Janáček
Mozart
Ravel
Schubert
Sibelius

Just outside the top 10: Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Haydn, Berlioz, Rakhmaninov, Schumann
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