Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

[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.

[Florestan]

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.

Of all the people reading that thread, some of them German, YOU are the only one to nitpick and hairsplit on that. If I wouldn't know you, I'd be really annoyed. But I do know you, so I'm not. I'm amused, actually.

[Madiel]

Of all the people reading that thread, some of them German, YOU are the only one to nitpick and hairsplit on that. If I wouldn't know you, I'd be really annoyed. But I do know you, so I'm not. I'm amused, actually.

And if I didn't know you, I'd be even more irritated by your responses than I am already.

Nitpick? Hairsplit? What you mean is I'm the only person who reacted in any way whatsoever to your categorisation. So why did you bother making the categorisation, if not to get responses of some kind? You WANTED a response. And then you decided to be as combative as possible about it. What a surprise. Because you find combat amusing.

I don't, okay? I don't remotely enjoy dealing with you when you decide to be like this.

[Florestan]

So why did you bother making the categorisation, if not to get responses of some kind?

I made the categorization because that's how I see things. Both Beethoven and Brahms spent most of their careers in Vienna and are associated with that city. Vienna in turn is associated with Austria. This is what I had in mind when writing "Austrian Connection". And the irony is that it's not even the first time I posted it. You surely have missed it the first time otherwise you'd have taken issues with it right then.

You WANTED a response.

No, I did not. Don't pretend you can read my mind.

And then you decided to be as combative as possible about it.

As combative as possible, really? Well, our exchange is in plain sight of everybody else, let them be the judge.

What a surprise. Because you find combat amusing.

Not at all. What I find amusing is to watch you being annoyed by things that don't seem to bother anyone else. May I remember you the recent fuss you made about Hoboken, or Laurel & Hardy's names being replaced with local ones?

I don't remotely enjoy dealing with you when you decide to be like this.

And yet you keep replying to my posts. Why? Do you want to have the last word? Okay, have it: reply to this and I promise I won't reply back. The whole kerfuffle is a storm in a glass of water anyway and I'm done with it.

And as far as I'm concerned, we're still friends.

[Madiel]

Right. So when you write something about how you don't know how I could have such a bizarre notion, I'm not supposed to answer you. If I actually try to EXPLAIN, then I get in trouble for responding.

FFS. Talk about setting up the rules of the game to ensure you win.