Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

[Karl Henning]

• Bach
• Beethoven
• Brahms
• Chopin
• Dvorak
• Haydn
• Mozart
• Schubert
• Tchaikovsky
• Vivaldi

Top 18 would have been a lot easier

Welcome to our impossible polls!

[The One]

Welcome to our impossible polls!

There are a lot of comparative listeners here. I wonder why there aren't any polls for recordings

[Karl Henning]

There are a lot of comparative listeners here. I wonder why there aren't any polls for recordings

Sometimes there are blind listening galas.

[North Star]

There are a lot of comparative listeners here. I wonder why there aren't any polls for recordings

There are definitely some polls for the favourite recordings of certain works, and then there's the GMG Members' Personal Essentials Lists thread.

Sometimes there are blind listening galas.

And that, too.

[The One]

There are definitely some polls for the favourite recordings of certain works, and then there's the GMG Members' Personal Essentials Lists thread.

Doesn't serve the same purpose I think.

[North Star]

Doesn't serve the same purpose I think.

Oh, indeed not.

[The One]

Oh, indeed not.

I have started one. Let's see if it is meaningful or at least if it helps to lead to a proper one with feedbacks

[Karl Henning]

Doesn't serve the same purpose I think.

Get it started, then! 

[Mirror Image]

Let's see what today's 'Top 10' looks like:

(In no particular order) -

Shostakovich
Sibelius
Bartók
Stravinsky
Nielsen
Vaughan Williams
Debussy
Ives
Martinů
Szymanowski

[Ken B]

Let's see what today's 'Top 10' looks like:

(In no particular order) -

Shostakovich
Sibelius
Bartók
Stravinsky
Nielsen
Vaughan Williams
Debussy
Ives
Martinů
Szymanowski

I found this cool portrait of Delius.



OOPS. Thought this was "Pictures I like"

[ritter]

I found this cool portrait of Delius.



OOPS. Thought this was "Pictures I like"

I momentarily mistook the portrait for one of Villa-Lobos...

[Brian]

1. Beethoven
2. Dvorak
3. Schubert
4. Haydn
5. Ravel
6. Janacek
7. Berlioz
8. 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.

no change! Scarlatti is now also in the 11-20 range.

[Karl Henning]

Scarlatti is now also in the 11-20 range.

Good.

[André]

Not even trying a comparison with any earlier list. Let's see... In no particular order:

Reger
Delius
Elgar
Beethoven
J.S. Bach
Haydn
Prokofiev
Wagner
Bruckner
Arnold

Schubert, Verdi, Vaughan-Williams are busy fighting for a place on the list. Actually, places #  11-20 are a more interesting contest IMO 

[amw]

There are a lot of comparative listeners here. I wonder why there aren't any polls for recordings

Hmm, good idea. I'll do one for something where I know more about the recordings

[Christo]

Probably posted some list here before, but today they are, in alphabetical order:

Arnold
Barber
Bate
Berkeley (père)
Braga Santos
Brian
Cooke
Dvořák
Falla
Guarnieri
Gershwin
Holmboe
Holst
Janáček
Kinsella
Nielsen
Pierné
Ravel
Respighi
Shostakovich
Tubin
Vaughan Williams
Villa-Lobos (to make it ten  )

Edit: forgot to mention my rising star:  Hindemith 

Another star risen since 2015: Tournemire 

[Mirror Image]

Let's see what today's 'Top 10' looks like:

(In no particular order) -

Shostakovich
Sibelius
Bartók
Stravinsky
Nielsen
Vaughan Williams
Debussy Ravel
Ives
Martinů
Szymanowski

I got to thinking about this particular list and, while it would be quite difficult, especially at this moment, to drop and replace anyone on this list, I have to drop Debussy and replace him with Ravel for a few reasons: 1. Daphnis et Chloé is one of the most magnificent pieces ever composed IMHO and has been a constant in my life for the past eight years, 2. I love L'enfant et les sortilèges and only merely like Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande, 3. Trois poèmes de Mallarmé!, and 4. Ravel's two PCs, like Daphnis, are two of my favorite pieces that have been in my mind since I first heard them. I still love Debussy's chamber music dearly, but, outside of his chamber music and a few select orchestral works, he doesn't quite entice me the same way Ravel's music has. So sorry Claude!

[SymphonicAddict]

Right now, in alphabetical order:

Beethoven
Brahms
Dvorák
Nielsen
Prokofiev
Respighi
Saint-Saëns
Shostakovich
Tchaikovsky
Vaughan Williams

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Currently Wagner and Strauss for me

[Josquin13]

My top ten:

Josquin Desprez
Guillaume Dufay
J.S.Bach
G.F. Handel
F. J. Haydn
W.A. Mozart
L.V. Beethoven
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Jean Sibelius

My 10 additional favorites (11-20): Ockeghem, Machaut, Ciconia, Tallis, Byrd, Prokofiev, Lassus, Schumann, Schubert, Mahler.

(21-25--Chopin, Wagner, Brahms, Bruckner, & De Vitry.)

(26-40--Faure, Liszt, Vivaldi, Biber, Monteverdi, Du Caurroy, G. Gabrieli, Obrecht, R. Strauss, Faugues, Dunstable, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Mendelssohn, Martinu or Binchois.)