Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Which Strauss?

Half of your list I've never heard a note of.

Richard Strauss. Although I have enjoyed a bit of Johann the younger recently too.

Hölszky is my favourite composer of choral music, a genre I think is a little bit neglected in favour of opera, orchestral and chamber.

[amw]

I just made a list and I guess it still stands, but honestly the only music I'm really listening to is Mozart. Everything else is alright but I have very limited patience for it.

[Christo]

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

Sang the Elias recently, now doing the Matthäus Passion; doesn't feel like a regression. 

[Florestan]

Jeez Louise! How about a trigger warning before you say anything so terrifying?

You can find some comfort and hope here:

[Florestan]

Sang the Elias recently, now doing the Matthäus Passion; doesn't feel like a regression. 

Who said anything about reggression?

[Karl Henning]

Jeez Louise! How about a trigger warning before you say anything so terrifying?

(* chortle *)

[Jamie]

An entirely different list to one I might have written a year ago, six months ago, ah well...

Debussy
Haydn
Stravinsky
Beethoven
Schumann
Ravel
Mahler
Sibelius
Tchaikovsky
Dvorak

and this is too short. Ten is simply not enough.

[SymphonicAddict]

An entirely different list to one I might have written a year ago, six months ago, ah well...

Debussy
Haydn
Stravinsky
Beethoven
Schumann
Ravel
Mahler
Sibelius
Tchaikovsky
Dvorak

and this is too short. Ten is simply not enough.

Certainly your list looks interesting, various coincidences with mine btw 

[Karl Henning]

[...] Ten is simply not enough.

Aye. Welcome to GMG 

[North Star]

Bach
Beethoven
Chopin
Debussy
Haydn
Janáček
Mozart
Ravel
Sibelius
Stravinsky

[Sammy]

Bach
Cabezon
Haydn
Mahler
Mozart
Schubert
Schumann
Scriabin
Shostakovich
Silvestrov
Weinberg

Counting is my specialty!

[Mirror Image]

Let's see if I can try this again:

Debussy
Ravel
Bartók
Stravinsky
Janáček
Ives
Schoenberg
Berg
Martinů
Takemitsu

[Jaakko Keskinen]

Let's see if I can try this again:

Debussy
Ravel
Bartók
Stravinsky
Janáček
Ives
Schoenberg
Berg
Martinů
Takemitsu

Sad to see Sibelius gone. :/ But glad to see Debussy prospering. 

[Madiel]

Sad to see Sibelius gone. :/

Ah. So that's why my subconscious wailed into the dark.

[Mirror Image]

Sad to see Sibelius gone. :/ But glad to see Debussy prospering. 

Well, there's several composers that were on my list for many years that have vanished: Sibelius, Nielsen, and Vaughan Williams to give three examples.

[kyjo]

Well, there's several composers that were on my list for many years that have vanished: Sibelius, Nielsen, and Vaughan Williams to give three examples.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Updating my list as of the 19 April 2018

Boulez
Wagner
Mundry
Carter
Berio
Neuwirth
Andre
Barrett (N.)
Hölszky
Rykova

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Goodbye Strauss, Ferneyhough, Elgar, Risset, Mozart and Boulanger. I am quite glad that my list has changed once again. I think Rykova is the only different one whose music I have come across only this year rather than one whose music I have known for longer.

Boulez
Wagner
Strauss
Neuwirth
Ferneyhough
Hölszky
Elgar
Risset
Mozart
L. Boulanger


I think that basically sums up my interests in music at the moment.

[amw]

Mozart
Beethoven
Haydn
Matteo da Perugia (even though I have no idea who he actually is)
Luca Marenzio
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Chaya Czernowin (again)
Janáček
Bach (mostly the passions though)
Christopher Tye
Brahms string sextets

Mozart [string quartets/quintets/piano concertos/piano quartets/violin sonatas]
Haydn [string quartets]
Cage [freeman etudes/prepared piano music/sonatas and interludes/string quartet/number pieces]
Donatoni [estratti/rima/souvenir/abyss/le ruisseau sur l'escalier etc]
Kurtág [....concertante/...quasi una fantasia/doppelkonzert/hipartita/kafka-fragmente/joszef attila fragments/scenes from a novel]
Schubert [D840/845/887/929/946/947/959/960]
Saunders (R) [most works but particularly molly's song 3/dichroic seventeen/solitude/fletch/cinnabar/a visible trace/stasis/skin]
Machaut [motets/messe de notre dame/lai de la fonteinne/lai de consolation]
Marenzio [madrigals books 1, 5, 6]

[Moonfish]

Let's see if I can try this again:

Debussy
Ravel
Bartók
Stravinsky
Janáček
Ives
Schoenberg
Berg
Martinů
Takemitsu

My list has changed quite a bit since last time (in no particular order):

Sibelius
RVW
Ravel
Bartok
Stravinsky
Britten
Shostakovich
Nielsen
Prokofiev
Tchaikovsky

John,
Comparing your 2015 list with your 2018 one. I note that almost all the composers on your 2015 list were eliminated. Only Ravel, Bartók and Stravinsky survived.   

   Oh, woe Sibelius!!!