Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

[ritter]

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!

I thought Jeux would have (or actually had)  tipped the balance in Claude de France's favour...but no  . Still, you give perfectly legitimate reasons to prefer one composer over the other (even if I do  not share them    ).

Good day, John! 

[Spineur]

These lists are very undesirable, because of their exclusive nature.

[The One]

These lists are very undesirable, because of their exclusive nature.

I think they are very desirable, because of their inclusive nature. Please, no offense

[Florestan]

These lists are very undesirable, because of their exclusive nature.

By marrying the woman you married, you excluded all other women.

By choosing the profession you chose, you excluded all other professions.

Just saying.

[Spineur]

By marrying the woman you married, you excluded all other women.

You must  be kidding !!  You are talking to a frenchman

[Florestan]

You must  be kidding !!  You are talking to a frenchman

Your reputation is greatly exaggerated.

[André]

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!

+ 1

I admire Debussy (a lot), but I abandon myself to Ravel 

[Sergeant Rock]

You must  be kidding !!  You are talking to a frenchman

Sarge

[Madiel]

These lists are very undesirable, because of their exclusive nature.

It's okay, you're still allowed to read other lists.

[Mirror Image]

I thought Jeux would have (or actually had)  tipped the balance in Claude de France's favour...but no  . Still, you give perfectly legitimate reasons to prefer one composer over the other (even if I do not share them    ).

Good day, John! 

G'day to you, Rafael. I hope everything is well with you. Yeah, you know I do love Claude, but the balance was tipped in Ravel's favor for the afore mentioned reasons. But, you know, we certainly can't control what we like --- we just have to accept what are ears happen to be drawn to.

[Mirror Image]

+ 1

I admire Debussy (a lot), but I abandon myself to Ravel 

Can't argue with this!

[kyjo]

+ 1

I admire Debussy (a lot), but I abandon myself to Ravel 

+1 

[Undersea]

At the moment:

Bach
Beethoven
Shostakovich
Prokofiev
Tchaikovsky
Sibelius
Chopin
Brahms
Mendelssohn
Debussy

[Madiel]

In chronological order:

Bach, J.S.
Haydn
Beethoven
Chopin
Brahms
Dvorak
Faure
Rachmaninov
Ravel
Holmboe

I think this is the only previous attempt I've made. Today I came up with:

Haydn
Beethoven
Chopin
Schumann
Brahms
Dvorak
Faure
Sibelius
Ravel
Holmboe

[schnittkease]

....Today I came up with:

Haydn
Beethoven
Chopin
Schumann
Brahms
Dvorak
Faure
Sibelius
Ravel
Holmboe

You chopped off Bach!?

[Madiel]

Yes.

[Christo]

Yes.

Ohno! #onewordposts 

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Ohno! #onewordposts 

I need Karl to be here so he can ( *chortle* ) at that..........

Well I certainly chortled anyway.

[Karl Henning]

I need Karl to be here so he can ( *chortle* ) at that..........

Well I certainly chortled anyway.

Thanks for serving as back-up!

[Florestan]

Today's list, arranged chronologically

1-3    Mozart, Schubert, Chopin

4-5    Haydn, Beethoven

6-10  Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff

Didn't compare it with my previous list but I think Mendelssohn displaced JS Bach.