Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

[Florestan]

My list is still the same and I can't think of it being changed any time soon.

The Austrian Connection: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms (5, but only 2 echt-Oesterreichisch and only 1 echt-Wiener)
The German Connection: Schumann, Mendelssohn (2)
The Russian Connection: Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff (2)
The Odd Man Out: Chopin (1)

[Christo]

Possibly:

Arnold
Barber
Braga Santos
Falla
Holmboe
Kodály
Nielsen
Respighi
Tubin
Vaughan Williams

[Old San Antone]

Top 10
Bach
Brahms
Stravinsky
Debussy
Liszt   
Durufle
Schumann   
Machaut
Beethoven
Ravel   

Next 15
Poulenc
Palestrina
Schoeck
Weinberg
Feldman
Carter
Bernstein
Satie
Fauré
Webern
Golijov
Wellesz
Dufay
Ockeghem
Meyer, K.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Possibly:

Arnold
Barber
Braga Santos
Falla
Holmboe
Kodály
Nielsen
Respighi
Tubin
Vaughan Williams

Another Kodaly lover! 

I like your way of thinking San Antone (= Top 10 followed by next 15)! 

PD
Top 10
Bach
Brahms
Stravinsky
Debussy
Liszt   
Durufle
Schumann   
Machaut
Beethoven
Ravel   

Next 15
Poulenc
Palestrina
Schoeck
Weinberg
Feldman
Carter
Bernstein
Satie
Fauré
Webern
Golijov
Wellesz
Dufay
Ockeghem
Meyer, K.

[Old San Antone]

Yeah, there were just too many composers I like almost as much as the top ten, who I wanted to mention.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Yeah, there were just too many composers I like almost as much as the top ten, who I wanted to mention.

I suspect that most of us here like a fairly wide range of composers (or at least a number of ones in a certain time period(s)).  Personally, I have favorite compositions, favorite composers...probably more limited in my time/era range, but do try and expand that from time to time to be honest...or maybe I should say revisit those categories/composers.

Best wishes,

PD

[Symphonic Addict]

Currently:

Dvorak
Atterberg
Sibelius
Rachmaninoff
Prokofiev
Brahms
Nielsen
Vaughan Williams
Poulenc
Finzi

(3 Nordic, 2 British, 2 Russian, 1 Eastern European, 1 French, 1 German)

No Braga Santos this time? 

[Karl Henning]

I know!  Ten is too short of a list for me too. lol  I was tempted to add Kodaly and Martinu to my list...Tchaikovsky could easily go on there too.  I like a variety, what can I say?   

PD

Variety is indeed the wealth of the literature. A Top 10 is a delicious impossibility.

[Madiel]

My list is still the same and I can't think of it being changed any time soon.

The Austrian Connection: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms (5, but only 2 echt-Oesterreichisch and only 1 echt-Wiener)
The German Connection: Schumann, Mendelssohn (2)
The Russian Connection: Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff (2)
The Odd Man Out: Chopin (1)

You turn Germans into Austrians just because they moved there? Unfair.

Of course, for most of them 'Germany' did not exist. They were all Germans. Some of whom were also Austrian.

[kyjo]

No Braga Santos this time? 

I was debating between him, Finzi, and Lloyd for 10th place. I went with Finzi to switch things up a little bit.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I was debating between him, Finzi, and Lloyd for 10th place. I went with Finzi to switch things up a little bit.

Are you a fan of his cello concerto?  It's a favorite of mine.   

[steve ridgway]

You turn Germans into Austrians just because they moved there? Unfair.

Of course, for most of them 'Germany' did not exist. They were all Germans. Some of whom were also Austrian.

Am I right in thinking Ligeti and Xenakis were not actually Romanians? 

[Florestan]

You turn Germans into Austrians just because they moved there?

I don't know where did you get this bizarre notion from.

Of course, for most of them 'Germany' did not exist. They were all Germans. Some of whom were also Austrian.

Exactly what I specified in my post.

[Florestan]

Am I right in thinking Ligeti and Xenakis were not actually Romanians? 

Yes, you are.

[kyjo]

Are you a fan of his cello concerto?  It's a favorite of mine.   

Oh, am I! It's one of my favorite pieces of music.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Oh, am I! It's one of my favorite pieces of music.

OT Favorite recording(s) of it? 

PD

[Madiel]

I don't know where did you get this bizarre notion from.

From you labelling Beethoven and Brahms as Austrian rather than German.

[Florestan]

From you labelling Beethoven and Brahms as Austrian rather than German.

I did not labelled them Austrian. That's your interpretation of what I did write, namely "The Austrian Connection".

If I wrote "The English Connection" with respect to Clementi, Cramer and Dussek would you infer that I labelled them Englishmen?

Now that I think of it, I should have written "The Vienna Connection". I don't think you would have had any objection to that.

[ritter]

Well, there's that old joke that says that Austria has convinced the world that Hitler was German, and Beethoven  Austrian...

[Madiel]

I did not labelled them Austrian. That's your interpretation of what I did write, namely "The Austrian Connection".

If I wrote "The English Connection" with respect to Clementi, Cramer and Dussek would you infer that I labelled them Englishmen?

Now that I think of it, I should have written "The Vienna Connection". I don't think you would have had any objection to that.

Oh for heavens' sake. I wouldn't have even noticed if you hadn't of bloody well written "THE GERMAN CONNECTION" on the very next line. Okay? You're the one who decided to label some people with "Austrian" and some other people with "German". It wouldn't have remotely occurred to me to query in any way your Austria/Vienna classification if you hadn't then highlighted the fact that you chose to label a couple of German-born people in the "Austrian" category, rather than the "German" category, by HAVING a "German" category.