Your Top 10 Favorite Composers

[Mirror Image]

My top 10...

Bartók
Berg
Britten
Bruckner
Dvořák   
Ives
Janáček
Mahler
Shostakovich
Stravinsky

A fine list, indeed.

[ritter]

My list then...

Johann Sebastian Bach
Wolgang Amadeus Mozart
Ludwig van Beethoven
Richard Wagner
Claude Debussy
Manuel de Falla
Arnold Schoenberg
George Enescu
Igor Stravinsky
Pierre Boulez

...and my list now:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Richard Wagner
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Florent Schmitt
Manuel de Falla
Arnold Schoenberg
George Enescu
Igor Stravinsky
Pierre Boulez

[Florestan]

...and my list now:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Richard Wagner
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Florent Schmitt
Manuel de Falla
Arnold Schoenberg
George Enescu
Igor Stravinsky
Pierre Boulez

Leaving out Mozart is a cultural crime of the highest order. You, sir, are a barbarian. 

Good evening, dear Rafael!

[ritter]

Leaving out Mozart is a cultural crime of the highest order. ....

Sic transit gloria mundi...

WAM will always have a special place in my heart, in any case. 

Good evening to you too, Andrei.

[Madiel]

My top 10, plus 14 runners-up. So sue me. 

Bartók
Berg
Britten
Bruckner
Dvořák   
Ives
Janáček
Mahler
Shostakovich
Stravinsky

Berio
Debussy
Grisey
Gubaidulina
Hindemith
Lachenmann
Ligeti
Martinů
Prokofiev
Ravel

Rachmaninoff
Schnittke
Sibelius
Verdi

--Bruce

This the top 10 list. The top 25 list is down the hall.

[Mirror Image]

...and my list now:

Ludwig van Beethoven
Richard Wagner
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Florent Schmitt
Manuel de Falla
Arnold Schoenberg
George Enescu
Igor Stravinsky
Pierre Boulez

A fine list, Rafael. I love all of these composers except for Schmitt who I'm just not impressed with.

[Symphonic Addict]

Interesting to see Haydn on your list. I've been listening to his music with more frequency recently and have been gaining much pleasure from it. I think Haydn is one of those composers whose music requires a really excellent performance to truly come to life. A dull or anemic performance of his music can be a really dreadful experience!

Haydn has impressed me much lately mostly due to his Paris and London symphonies, which I revisited in the last months. However, I realized I left Prokofiev out!

[Symphonic Addict]

Currently in this mood:

Beethoven
Dvorak
Langgaard
Nielsen
Respighi
Saint-Saëns
Shostakovich
Sibelius
Tubin
Vaughan Williams

Conservative? Perhaps yes. But I can't deny my true obsessions in music: symphonies (except Respighi and Saint Saëns whose ones are not as terribly important to me, or at least they're not their best output).

[Mirror Image]

Let's see...

Debussy
Mahler
Strauss
Sibelius
Bartók
Shostakovich
Schoenberg
Rachmaninov
Stravinsky
Martinů

[vandermolen]

Let's see too!

VW
Miaskovsky
Tubin
Bax
Shostakovich
Bruckner
Bliss
Rubbra
Sibelius
Copland

I've tried to include composers whose work I like generally and excluded ones, like Diamond, Lilburn and Braga-Santos, whose music I love, but not throughout their composing careers.

[Brahmsian]

My list today:

Shostakovich
Bruckner
Dvořák
Tchaikovsky
Penderecki
Sibelius
Taneyev
Mahler
Schubert
Prokofiev

[foxandpeng]

Recently, no order.

RVW
Holmboe
Tabakov
Bax
Arnold
Shostakovich
Vasks
Sibelius
Antheil
Nørgård

[Wanderer]

Today the list goes thus:

Beethoven
Mozart
Schubert
Schumann
Brahms
Berlioz
Alkan
Medtner
Bruckner
R. Strauss

(no room for [enter names], I see. I like the Top 30 Favourite Composers thread more  )

Me too. 🎼⚡️

[Wanderer]

I am starting to suspect that very few of us actually have a top ten list in our mind. Most likely it revolves around a top 30 or 40 (or even 50) batch that changes slightly as time goes by.   

That's certainly accurate as far as I'm concerned. 🤷‍♂️😎

[Wanderer]

I think these lists are a cruel exercise. I can't sleep at night and if I do fall asleep the composers that didn't make my list haunt me in horrible nightmares!!!!!!   

I think that is Stockhausen's ghost...

He's haunting damn near everyone.

Sarge

If Stockhausen is anywhere near your Top 10 you don't deserve to sleep.

How we're not yet a sitcom is beyond me. 😎

[vandermolen]

Recently, no order.

RVW
Holmboe
Tabakov
Bax
Arnold
Shostakovich
Vasks
Sibelius
Antheil
Nørgård

That could, more or less, be my list too!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

How we're not yet a sitcom is beyond me. 😎

No wonder Moonfish can't sleep; the bed's not long enough and their head, etc. is not supported! 

PD

[foxandpeng]

That could, more or less, be my list too!

We certainly have lots of listening in common 😀

[Madiel]

How we're not yet a sitcom is beyond me. 😎

We might be a little bit niche for the big networks. Maybe local cable.

[vandermolen]

We certainly have lots of listening in common 😀

Indeed!